Organists and Organ Playing

Transformation

Over two years ago when I came to play an all-Bach recital at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, their music director and organist, George Emblom, reluctantly showed me his office. My reaction to the chaos was, “But George, how do you get any work done in there?!” Another thing I remember telling him was that the… Read More Transformation

Organists and Organ Playing

Bach on BART

As you know, yesterday was Bach’s birthday (March 21) and Google created an artificial intelligence-powered Google doodle that lets you compose your own music in the style of J. S. Bach. Did you try it? You could put in a single line melody and the Google doodle would harmonize it in four parts, in the… Read More Bach on BART