On Saturday, we received a text message from choirmaster Mike Dupre: Tomorrow is Laetare Sunday! Anyone want to wear Rose/pink tomorrow? According to Wikipedia, Laetare Sunday is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. Traditionally, this Sunday has been a day of celebration within the austere period of Lent. This Sunday gets… Read More Laetare Sunday pink
Perhaps you are familiar with Michelangelo’s quote about sculpture: Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ”– Michelangelo Peter Hallock once told us that it is the same with music and poetry. It’s the poetry which dictates what the music will sound… Read More Music and sculpture
I went to the first hour of Thursday night choir rehearsal before I returned home to catch the 11:30 pm flight to Seattle, with a three hour layover in San Francisco. Both of my flights were early, and Scott Fikse, former Director of Music and Liturgy at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, picked me up… Read More A day with Scott
The year 2024 marks 100 years since the birth of organist, composer, liturgist and countertenor Peter R. Hallock (November 19, 1924-April 27, 2014). Even though Peter’s 100th birthday is not until November, the celebrations will take place all year, beginning with a pair of concerts this coming weekend. I will be leaving Thursday night for… Read More Hallock at 100
I guess you could call me a “working stiff” — meaning, that I’m back in the work force, after ten years of relative retirement. Here are some of the synonyms for “working stiff” from Dictionary.com: I’m a working stiff organist! My last post, “Too many notes … too much!” described the quantity of music I… Read More Working stiff
I was talking with a friend who wasn’t able to go to the Early Music Hawaii concert last weekend, but she said that the next day at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, *everybody* was talking about the concert and its success. “I went into the Board Room, and they were talking about last night’s concert.… Read More Everybody was talking about …
I know you’ve heard that expression before! If you look it up in a dictionary (on the internet, of course!) it’s a term which expresses surprise or amazement: “Great Scott!” is an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It is a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, popular in the second half of the 19th century and… Read More Great Scott!
For the upcoming Early Music Hawaii concert, “The Golden Age of Spanish Culture,” the ensemble has rehearsed online over Zoom, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, and last night, in my bedroom! All because rehearsal space at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu has not been available. When we remodeled our condo in 2012, I am glad… Read More A bedroom rehearsal hall
If you think I’ve « gone silent » lately, you might be right. My last post in this blog was about 11 days ago, and just in that short time, I have been, in one word, overwhelmed— by the number of responsibilities and deadlines I am dealing with. Outside of playing for church every Sunday… Read More Not enough hours in the day!
I’ve been home for a week now, and fighting jet lag (as always); in fact, it’s 3:44 am and I’ve been awake for an hour. So I thought I may as well do something useful and tell you about something that happened on the way home. We only had one stop in San Francisco between… Read More Is your name Kathy?