Along with playing for services, organists are frequently called to accompany choirs. I myself started accompanying choirs when I was fifteen and got my first church job at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Burbank, CA. (I was paid $66.67 a month which included two weekly choir rehearsals plus a Sunday morning service and warmup!) When I entered… Read More Accompanying the choir
Next Sunday at the 10:30 service the LCH choir will sing two pieces by Igor Stravinsky. I know that we have the reputation of singing only Renaissance and Baroque music, but the truth is that the choir sings in a wide range of musical styles. The offertory anthem will be “The dove descending” which is… Read More Stravinsky at LCH
A few weeks ago, we went into an art gallery at Aloha Tower Marketplace and I saw an especially striking and memorable painting. The artist depicted scenes in which real people are “shadowed” by important figures in their history. I remember one particular painting in which there is a young child with her teacher at… Read More Mr. Regnal Hall, 1926-2010