When I looked at the repertoire for tonight’s concert, called “Hymn of Praise,” I was pretty sure I had never heard the music before: Bruckner Te Deum and Mendelssohn Lobgesang. In fact when I am booking my Three Choirs Festival tickets, mostly the repertoire is unfamiliar to me—being large-scale works which I would not come… Read More “I waited for the Lord”
It was January 14, 2015 when I attended a board meeting of Early Music Hawaii that I first suggested the name Dana Marsh to conduct a concert here. It was actually Peter Hallock who told us about Dana years and years ago — Dana was one of Peter’s former students who was trained as a boy chorister at St. Thomas Church Fifth… Read More Three old friends
Today we had lunch with a long-time friend and fellow church musician, Dana Marsh, who happened to be home with his family in California. Dana is no stranger to LCH, having given several duo countertenor recitals with Carl Crosier in the 1990s, and conducted the LCH choir in a Bach cantata for Epiphany in… Read More Catching up with Dana Marsh