What is the seating capacity of Duke University Chapel? That’s the question I typed into my phone at the concert by the Tallis Scholars last night. The answer I got was 1600, and although I couldn’t see all the way to the back, the building looked pretty full to me. The Tallis Scholars is a… Read More Heavenly sublime
And I haven’t even gotten to Amsterdam yet! I left Honolulu on Tuesday afternoon and stopped briefly in Los Angeles and Houston before arriving at Raleigh-Durham airport about noon on Wednesday. Of course I didn’t sleep a wink—what was running through my head was Olivier Messiaen’s L’Ascension suite from Steven Severin’s recital on Sunday! Even… Read More Tulip-crazy
This morning we got up early to attend a keyboard mini-festival and what was interesting was that artists we have heard previously are playing different instruments. We began with a harpsichord concert by Peter Sykes whom I have heard as an organist. What was so unusual about this concert is that he used an iPad… Read More Another six concerts
This Sunday is Transfiguration, the last festival service before the Season of Lent, which means this is the last organ postlude I’ll play until Easter Day! (At LCH we observe the penitential season of Lent by not having postludes.) Once there was a whole Lenten season when I decided I wasn’t going to use organ… Read More Peter Philips and Peter Phillips