The day started out poorly, with me barely getting to the airport at the last minute, then whipping out my mobile boarding pass to show to the TSA agent, only to have him say, “This is for the WRONG airport!” You see, I had forgotten to delete the boarding pass from Sunday’s Kona to Honolulu… Read More Wrong airport! Wrong gate!
From 1974 to 1977, I was the organist and accompanist for the choirs at the all-girls Episcopal school, St. Andrew’s Priory, and worked under Wanda Gereben, the choral teacher. But I not only played the piano and organ—I also sewed costumes for the spring musical one year. When I left the Priory in 1977, I… Read More Returning to “my mother”
When I was taking organ lessons during high school, I was aware that my teacher, Dr. Norman Söreng Wright, commuted from his home in Montecito to Hollywood, CA where he was the organist and choirmaster of the Hollywood Methodist Church, a distance of 86 miles. He actually had an apartment in Hollywood, where he stayed… Read More Commuter organ teacher