Recognize the woman third from the left? It’s Jennifer Lane, a frequent visitor to Hawaii, singing with the Early Music Hawaii Singers! If you may remember, Jennifer sang her first concert in Hawaii when my husband Carl Crosier contracted her to sing in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in the year 2000. Here’s part of Jennifer’s… Read More Jennifer’s back in town!
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
I’m jetlagged, but I’m hitting the ground running! I walked in the door of my condo about 2:30 pm on Friday, having left Buenos Aires on a 9:00 pm flight on Thursday. The flight to Houston was 10 hours long, with a 4 hour layover, then it was another 8 hours to Honolulu. That means… Read More Jetlagged, but …
This past week we have put the finishing touches on the Early Music Hawaii program, “Masters of the English Reformation” which will be aired beginning Friday, October 23rd at 7:00 pm and will be available on the website for one week. The program really consists of two parts: Sacred music, which will be aired on… Read More Definitely OLD School!
I spent the morning packing my suitcase before getting an Uber to the Church of the Advent. The apartment where I’ve been staying is not available tonight so I will be moving to a bed-and-breakfast next door to Edith Ho’s house for my last night in Boston. Edith will take the luggage back home while… Read More Trinity at the Advent
I spent the morning looking for a post office and took these pictures of churches along the way. Yesterday was cold and rainy and today is a beautiful day in Boston! The courtyard at First Lutheran. Yesterday it was pouring buckets here. After spending about six hours yesterday attending three organ recitals at First Lutheran… Read More Another day at First Lutheran
You remember the legend of Sisyphus, don’t you?Sisyphus was a bad king whose punishment for his deceitfulness was to push a huge boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back to the bottom again. I had recalled this Greek myth in a prior post about playing Jeremiah Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary over and over and over… Read More Bridging the Centuries
One of the best things about going to an event like the Boston Early Music Festival, is seeing and reacquainting oneself with people you know, colleagues, friends and students. We are staying, as we do whenever we come to Boston, with retired choirmaster and organist Edith Ho from the Church of the Advent, in… Read More Joyful reunions
There were twenty-two (count ’em!) pieces of music in tonight’s Maundy Thursday service, and there would have been twenty-three had the footwashing not been so efficient. We unfortunately had to cut “Ubi caritas” by Maurice Duruflé because no more music was needed during the footwashing rite. Here is the repertoire: Organ Prelude: O Lamm Gottes… Read More Maundy Thursday marathon
In the Lutheran liturgy, the Gospel Acclamation, once known as the Alleluia, comes right after the second reading and precedes the reading of the Gospel. Verses are appointed for the day, which are sung after the Alleluia refrain. Over the years the LCH choir has sung settings by William Byrd, Heinrich Isaac, Carl Crosier, Peter… Read More New (to us) Gospel Acclamations