It’s All Hallows Eve, also known as Halloween, and three guesses as to where I’ll be tonight?! It’s Thursday, meaning that I’ll be at choir rehearsal! It’s the beginning of a huge, super busy weekend for me — (what’s new?!) — beginning with what is sure to be a long rehearsal tonight with three high… Read More All Hallows Eve
It’s been a week since I returned home from South America, and after a horrible week of trying to adjust back to this time zone (there’s a difference of 7 hours between Argentina and Hawaii), I’ve now jumped right in and immersed myself in the music for the next Early Music Hawaii concert, “William Byrd:… Read More Immersed in Byrd
In case you’ve never heard of “Winterreise.” according to Britannica.com , “Winterreise, (German: “Winter Journey”) (is a) cycle of 24 songs for male voice and piano composed in 1827 by Austrian composer Franz Schubert, with words by German poet Wilhelm Müller. Schubert was reviewing the publisher’s proofs of the cycle in the weeks before his… Read More Winterreise “tour de force”
“Three sensei…” That’s what Thomas Yee said in this picture of himself, his former student Tyler Ramos and me after their wonderful concert tonight “An Evening of Music for Piano and Four Hands.” It was the first First Mondays concert of 2023. [In case you don’t know, sensei in Japanese means teacher or instructor. However,… Read More Three sensei
What’s a group of dinosaurs called? This is what I found after a Google search: It is generally considered safe to refer to a group of hunting predators, such as Velociraptors, as a pack and a large group of herbivores, such as sauropods, as a herd. Yet, on Quora, I found this: Depends on the type… Read More A pack or a herd?