This weekend I am looking forward to joining the Kona Choral Society in their performance of Schubert, Mass in G and Handel, Messiah on Sunday, Dec. 7th at 4:00 pm at the Sheraton Keauhou Resort. The concert marks the choir’s 25th anniversary with the same program it sang 25 years ago. Although the chorus numbers… Read More On to Kona
Last night I got a report from WordPress.com which sends a summary of statistics on the blog, Another Year of Insanity: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 41,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals. In 2012, there were 149 new posts, growing the… Read More 131 Countries!
I just got an email from WordPress.com with the Annual Report on this blog, “Another Year of Insanity,” which states that 27,411 people visited my blog in the year 2011! This is pretty remarkable, because of course, I don’t know 27,411 people — in fact I don’t know that I even know one-tenth of that!… Read More The numbers are in!
Anyone who is an organist is familiar with the Latin phrase, “Soli Deo Gloria” which means “To God alone the glory.” It’s the motto of the American Guild of Organists, but more than that, it was the way that Johann Sebastian Bach signed his cantatas, using the initials S.D.G. As I’ve written before in this… Read More Soli Deo Gloria