Much as I loved my little “box organ” from the workshop of Klaus Grüble which I purchased three years ago for my condo, I found it nigh impossible to play a significant part of the organ literature: music for three distinct voices or trios—music which necessitates two manuals and pedal. My baby organ has only… Read More Birch, cherry and plum
Today Hans took me on a tour of pipe organs and churches in Hamburg. We call it an “organ crawl” which can refer to our climbing through the organ chambers to more closely examine the insides of the pipe organ. Our first stop was in Blankenese, where Hans and Christiane attend at the Blankeneser Kirche… Read More Hamburg organ crawl
It was months and MONTHS ago that Jeremy Wong asked me to be part of a baroque concert with the University of Hawaii Chamber Singers—in fact, I think it was while I was on some European trip last summer, and I thought, sure, fine, no problem! It was only after I was asked about being… Read More Voices of the Baroque
Operation Babylift. If you are as old as I am (ahem!), you probably have heard the term “Operation Babylift.” But if you’re still a spring chicken, and aren’t old enough to know what it was, I can tell you that it was the name of a mass evacuation of children at the end of the Vietnam War in… Read More Operation Babylift
Yesterday, one day after the magnificent 40th Anniversary celebration of the Beckerath organ, twenty members of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists came to “The Marble Palace in the Sky,” (my condo) — for the members’ annual meeting and to see the newest pipe organ in Honolulu: the “box organ” built by… Read More Baby’s coming out party
Some people are lucky enough to be grandparents and can share baby photos.(Congratulations, Frank and Sue Haas on your second grandson!) I haven’t yet joined “The Grandparents Club” but I can share photos of a baby organ, soon to be on its way to Hawaii!