This past Sunday, I and about 400 other people were in St. Andrew’s Cathedral enjoying the Cathedral Choir’s superb Annual Carol Concert. If you remember, I designed the publicity poster and just in case you are wondering, the Madonna and child image was painted by Italian Renaissance artist, Masaccio, 1401-1428. According to Wikipedia, Masaccio (1401-1428)… Read More In case you are wondering …
I finally got a chance to sit down and read the December 2014 issue of The American Organist (also known as TAO) and a few names jumped out at me. The first one which caught my eye was the picture of Barbara Adler, who is Treasurer/Councillor for Finance and Development. Many people don’t know how instrumental… Read More Organists I know in TAO
It was nine years ago that I recommended to the local American Guild of Organists Executive Board that we bring Paul Jacobs, the youngest head of the Juilliard School Organ Department, to Hawaii to give a recital. I had heard him play several times, but it was his performance in New York at the Association of Lutheran… Read More Michael Hey, Concert Organist
That’s what superstar organist, Ken Cowan, received at last Sunday night’s concert at St. Andrew’s Cathedral and I’m so sorry that I didn’t do more to publicize his recital through this blog so that more of you could have attended his fantastic program. His program showed not only all the colors of the Aeolian-Skinner organ,… Read More Four standing ovations