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Tag Archives: Olivier Messiaen
Tulip-crazy
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
Outside the bounds of time
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
Surprise reunion — Surprise!!
“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
A taste of heaven
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
Not bug music!
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
Necrology
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
Posted in Carl Crosier, Choral Music, Katherine Crosier
Tagged Ascension Suite, Bill Turnipseed, Compline Choir, Hallock Institute, Hallock Legacy Society, Jason Anderson, Jessica Crosier, Jim Weaver, Mary Coon, Mel Butler, necrology, Olivier Messiaen, Peter Hallock, Richard Greene, Stephen Crosier
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Bridging the Centuries
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
Posted in Carl Crosier, Katherine Crosier
Tagged Allen Bauchle, David Del Rocco, Early Music Hawaii, Emily Haswell, Francis Poulenc, Francisco Guerrero, Georgine Stark, Hermann Schroeder, Ian Capps, Jeannette Johnson, Karl Nowicki, Karol Nowicki, Karyn Castro, Keane Ishii, Mihoko Ito, Morten Lauridsen, Naomi Castro, Olivier Messiaen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Randall Giles, Simon Crookall, Sisyphus, Stan Baptista, Thomas Tallis, Tomas Luis de Victoria, William Byrd
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Ferko and Messiaen
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
Mysterious Messiaen
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
Posted in Katherine Crosier
Tagged Apparition de l'Eglise éternelle, Notre Dame, Olivier Latry, Olivier Messiaen
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The organ prelude
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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Tagged joie et clarte, les corps glorieux, Olivier Messiaen, organ prelude
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