Tag Archives: Olivier Messiaen

Tulip-crazy

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Katherine Crosier

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 … Continue reading →

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Outside the bounds of time

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Katherine Crosier

It was again another gorgeous day in Seattle—the sky is blue and clear, no rain and it’s cool, in the lower 60s F. When I walked into St. Mark’s, the choir was rehearsing the Kyrie in a mass setting by … Continue reading →

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Surprise reunion — Surprise!!

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Katherine Crosier

“Kathy! What are you doing here?!” Those were the first words from organist Jonathan Dimmock, whose recital I attended this afternoon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles. Before going on this trip, I checked the … Continue reading →

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A taste of heaven

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Katherine Crosier

When I got into the car this morning, of course public radio came on, and I immediately recognized the music. It was Olivier Messiaen’s Alleluias sereins d’une ame qui desire le ciel (Serene alleluias from a soul who desires heaven) from his … Continue reading →

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Not bug music!

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Katherine Crosier

I recently overheard someone was looking forward to hearing the upcoming Duruflé Requiem but wasn’t so excited about hearing a new work by American composer Frank Ferko (born 1950) which is on the first half of the program. This person … Continue reading →

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Necrology

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Katherine Crosier

I guess I had never heard the word “necrology” before (I could not have used the word in a sentence!) until I took a job as a parish administrator in an Episcopal church in 2004. It refers to a list of people … Continue reading →

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Bridging the Centuries

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Katherine Crosier

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 … Continue reading →

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Ferko and Messiaen

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Katherine Crosier

For Pentecost the LCH Choir will be singing one of the Hildegard motets by American composer, Frank Ferko. I was very interested to learn that Ferko is a graduate of Valparaiso University (the same alma mater as Allen Bauchle) and … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Messiaen

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Katherine Crosier

It’s Pentecost this Sunday, a day I have always thought of as a “bookend” to the church music season — in spite of the fact that I have one more Sunday to play after that before going on vacation. For … Continue reading →

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The organ prelude

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Katherine Crosier

Yesterday, our long-time friend from the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Randy Knutson, sent me this cartoon and it reminded me about what I wanted to write about for a long time — the organ prelude. Now, if we were … Continue reading →

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