Okay, I can just hear my late husband, Carl, saying: Kathy, why don’t you check these things instead of being in such a hurry?! You’re in too much of a rush and aren’t careful!” What I’m referring to was my last post about the All Saints Day memorial concert, November 1, 2015 at the Lutheran Church… Read More I can hear him now!
Psalm 23 from the Ionian Psalter, conducted by Carl Crosier Since Peter Hallock‘s death last Sunday, the tributes have been pouring in for this extraordinary church musician and mystic. Especially poignant and touching was the Office of Compline for April 27, 2014, which was sung at St. Mark’s Cathedral on the very night that Peter… Read More Tributes pour in
In the month of November, the lectionary focuses on The End of Time. and I couldn’t help but think about the music last season. Just about this time last year, we gave two ground-breaking performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and the very next week, did two performances of Peter Hallock’s “The Last Judgment” at… Read More Music for “The Last Judgment”
Sooner or later, nearly everyone gets to Hawaii. We’ve said that for family, friends, relatives, and organists. We at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu are especially fortunate to have hosted some of the great organists of the world, and I’m positive that what put us on the map is the presence of the Beckerath organ.… Read More Famous organists visit LCH
Okay . . . I admit it, I was COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED after this past Christmas and New Year’s season of services. Even though I only played continuo organ for last Sunday’s German Vespers, the fact remains that we were still stapling programs at 2:00 pm (we had a rehearsal at 3:00 and the service started at… Read More January breather
It’s New Year’s day! 1/1/11! And the Crosiers are down to the wire again on the worship booklet for tomorrow’s German Vespers. No copy shops are open today, so I think we’re going to have to find an alternative place to make the copies. And wouldn’t you know it, all this time the copy machine… Read More Down to the wire
When Carl found out that there was going to be an Early Music Festival in Berkeley titled “Four Hundred Years of Vespers” and would feature workshops on the Monteverdi Vespers, he jumped at the chance to attend. As it turned out, Ian Capps and Jeannette Johnson, occasional LCH choristers, were also scheduled to go. Coincidentally… Read More Berkeley Early Music Festival, June 10-13, 2010