At Christmas time I stayed two nights on the island of Kauai, where I played a concert with the Kauai Chorale, under the leadership of Shane Morris Wise. I told you about my rude awakening at 3 am in the morning when roosters began crowing. Go back and read my post, “No paltry amount of… Read More As if on cue …
To say that I have survived a big weekend is an understatement! I got up at 4:45 am on Friday morning to catch an early Hawaiian Airlines flight to Lihue, Kauai, where I was met at the airport by my student, Daniel Welch. We drove straight to All Saints Episcopal Church in Kapaa, where I… Read More Big weekend!
It was 2:55 am and I heard a rooster crow from the cottage where I am staying on the grounds of All Saints Episcopal Church. “Welcome to Kauai,” my student had warned me earlier. If you don’t know it already, all the Hawaiian islands, but especially Kauai, have massive colonies of feral chickens. Here is… Read More “No paltry amount of poultry”
Yesterday on my monthly visit to the island of Kaua’i to teach organ students I met Noah Smith, the summer organ intern at All Saints Episcopal Church. Noah is here from May 29th to August 7th, primarily to play the Sunday 9:30 am services while the church’s Director of Music, Henry Adams Curtis, is on… Read More In his genes
Today I had the opportunity to not only see but to play the new Rosales organ at All Saints Episcopal Church in Kapa’a, on the island of Kaua’i. I set my alarm for 5:00 am to get ready for my morning flight to “The Garden Island,” parked my car in the inter-island terminal and took… Read More A day on Kaua‘i
This afternoon I was very happy to hear that Adam Pajan opened the Inaugural Concert of the Rosales Organ (the Sloggett/Wilcox Ohana Organ) with Marcel Dupré’s Cortège et litanie, a piece I learned as a teenager with Dupré himself. Adam said that the piece was a great one to showcase the many colors of an… Read More Rosales puts Kaua‘i on the map!
This coming week I will be playing the first of several end-of-the-year events for St. Andrew’s Priory School, starting with Ascension Day, the school’s traditional Founders Day event. St. Andrew’s Priory School was founded on Ascension Day, May 30, 1867, by Queen Emma, wife of King Kamehameha IV, and Mother Priscilla Lydia Sellon of the… Read More Getting back to “normal” — almost!
From time to time I have written about the pipe organ project at All Saints Episcopal Church in Kapa’a, Kaua’i. Check out my post, “Good news for a change!” for photos of the instrument in huge crates. The instrument actually arrived on the island in October 2020, and because of the pandemic, there have been… Read More A pipe organ for Kaua’i
Over the past seven months our world has changed due to the novel coronavirus, upending our churches, our choirs, our economies and our way of life. All of my spring concerts got cancelled, or took on a new format, as our latest Early Music Hawaii concert was videotaped and then broadcast over the internet. The… Read More Good news for a change!
If you were one of the email subscribers to the blog you may have been puzzled by my mention of the Kona Choral Society when I wrapping up my time on the Garden Island, Kaua’i. I must have been tired when I wrote that last post, because of course I meant the Kauai Chorale, directed… Read More In a fog