Our concert tonight was in the Musiikkitalo, also known as the Helsinki Music Centre and it was a program for choir and organ. My attention was drawn to the unusual sculpture of pipes outside of the case, and when Bill Potter asked me whether those were working pipes, I thought yes, they were. Here’s what… Read More The Helsinki Music Centre (Musiikkitalo) organ
As I was doing research for this trip to Barcelona, I read somewhere that there were three churches which had notable organs. Today we attended masses in those three churches, including the Barcelona Cathedral at 10:30 am, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi at 12:00 pm and the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar… Read More Three churches and more
Today we visited the Catedral Metropolitana of Buenos Aires … surely a unique experience for my companions, especially for our Spanish teacher, Barbi and her mom, who had never been in the Cathedral, much less in the organ loft. We were fortunate to meet Enrique Rimoldi, the organist, who invited us into the organ loft… Read More A unique experience