Tonight was the dress rehearsal for choir, orchestra and soloists for Scott Fikse’s last service at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu and if I had to sum it up, I would say it was full of glorious exuberance! Dress rehearsals at church, though, are a little different from those you might experience for an opera… Read More Glorious exuberance!
To follow up on the post I wrote about musical prodigy Alma Deutscher, the person in the 60 Minutes segment was indeed my former student, Robert (Bob) Gjerdingen, who is now a music professor at Northwestern University. It was only a matter of hours that he responded to my post with the comment, “Dear Katherine,… Read More Organ connections
Last night we went to an outstanding concert by the J. S. Bach Foundation based in St Gallen, conducted by Rudolf Lutz. The concert was held in the Evangelical Reformed Church which architecturally is vastly different from all other churches we have visited so far. For example, the front of the church has two main… Read More The period orchestra