A couple of weeks ago, Tim Carney of the Hawai’i Vocal Arts Ensemble wrote me: Organist for Luigi Gatti Creation? Hi Kathy, HVAE is singing this fascinating Mass based on music from Haydn’s Creation…Gatti was one of many composers who adapted Haydn’s music for a Mass setting in the early 18th century. It has an… Read More Wishful thinking
It is only now that I feel like I am emerging from a cocoon—all weekend I have been at my computer working on the concert program for a series of concerts celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Lutheran Church of Honolulu Choir is presenting two concerts, called “Echoes and Refrains” with the Canadian early… Read More Behind the scenes
There was an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe last week titled, “Save the church! kill the organs” and it naturally elicited a lot of response from organists and parishioners alike. The author, Jennifer Graham, associated music coming out of an organ to that of a horror movie, and had the nerve to blame organ… Read More Don’t blame the organ!
This Sunday is Reformation, one of my favorite Lutheran festivals in the whole church year because it’s a day that I inevitably play Bach. I’ll be playing Bach’s Prelude in E minor, BWV 548a for the prelude and the Prelude and Fugue in E minor (“Cathedral”) BWV 533 for the postlude. During communion, I’ll be… Read More Bach to basics for Reformation
In the last post, I listed all the music that the Lutheran Church of Honolulu will be performing at the Choral Vespers service this Sunday night at 7:30 pm. Now I would like to tell you all about the music that is being done on Sunday morning at the 10:30 service. The organ music will… Read More Reformation Sunday 2011