Yesterday afternoon I spent four hours in a walking tour of Bogotá churches and 95% of the time we spoke Spanish. Woo hoo! It helped that Alejandro, my tour guide, has another life as a professor of English at a government-funded technical school and could gently correct my mistakes. But I think that carrying on… Read More Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral
Guess what, Queen Liliuokalani was at the Bergkirche this morning! Well, actually it was her composition, “The Queen’s Prayer,” that was sung by the Hawaii Masterworks Chorus at the Bergkirche at the offertory in today’s service. I am quite confident that this was the first time Hawaiian music was sung at this church where Joseph… Read More Queen Liliuokalani at the Bergkirche
So the whole reason that I’m here in Seattle was to attend the dedication of the Compline Window to the Glory of God and to the memory of Peter R. Hallock. It was just then coincidental that the Compline Choir presented a program called Laetare of readings and musical reflections in response to “Sanctuary,” a… Read More Laetare
Today we visited Mirecourt, a town which is known for its musical instrument making, primarily stringed instruments. The Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité is where we went to play the organ and what is remarkable, is that you have to enter the organ loft by an outside stairway, something I’d never think I’d see in Europe! (There is… Read More To go up, you go OUT!