This Sunday at St. Mark’s I’ll be playing two movements from Bach’s partita on “Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig,” one of my very favorite pieces of all-time. Even though it has been at least 12 or 13 years since I last played this piece, this week during my practice I was pleasantly surprised to find that… Read More Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768
My sister-in-law, Carol Rodi (Carl Crosier’s sister) made the comment recently, “It’s SOOOO expensive to live in Hawaii, and it’s even MORE expensive to die!” We were meeting with people at the mortuary, who were more than happy to do anything we wanted, for a price of course. One thing families may do here is pay… Read More A story instead of an obituary
This All Saints Sunday, as we remember those who have died, two of the pieces I’m playing are especially associated with funerals: Vor deinen Thron (Before thy throne I now appear) by Johann Sebastian Bach and the Swedish hymntune Tryggare kan ingen vara (Children of the heavenly father). I’m embedding a video of the Bach… Read More Music for the end
It’s amazing (and perhaps a little sad) to think that this Sunday’s Bach Vespers service, February 20, 2011 will be the last scheduled Bach cantata (BWV 111) that Carl Crosier will conduct during his tenure as Cantor of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. It will mark the 93rd performance of a Bach cantata with orchestra,… Read More The Bach cantata legacy
Sooner or later, nearly everyone gets to Hawaii. We’ve said that for family, friends, relatives, and organists. We at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu are especially fortunate to have hosted some of the great organists of the world, and I’m positive that what put us on the map is the presence of the Beckerath organ.… Read More Famous organists visit LCH
One of the stories in the news today is an article on how music can affect you in such a way as to give you chills. Quoting from the article, “Musical chills, write the authors from the University of North Carolina, are “sometimes known as aesthetic chills, thrills, shivers, frisson, and even skin orgasms [who… Read More Messiah gives you chills?