There’s a Hawaiian music channel on Time Warner Cable’s menu (channel 800 if you didn’t know) and there’s always a lot of Iz. I was puttering in the kitchen yesterday when his version of “Over the Rainbow” came on. Yeah, he got the words wrong and tinkered with the melody a bit but’s it’s still […]
We all recognize the eerie John Williams two-note theme that grows into a serious bit of panic. When “Jaws” came out in 1975 I went to see it with my mother (safety tip: don’t go to scary movies with your mother unless you want to lose an arm…when the guy’s head rolled out of the sunken boat […]
Whether this is your first year singing with the Windward Choral Society or you’ve been around for all nine, we’re all at that magical crossroads that appears after a few rehearsals. Now that we’ve sung everything a little and some things a few times there are two thoughts that climb up the back of the […]
At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors there was a conversation about the pile(s) of sheet music accumulated over the last nine years. Quite a few file cabinets had been donated as things grew but they were overflowing and the Windward Choral Society’s storage unit was starting to look like an episode of “Hoarders”. There […]
Okay, this is really, really cool. I’m not a big fan of lazy bloggging with just a link but I’m happy to make an exception for truly awesome stuff. This certainly qualifies. From the arranger: “This unique video, features my first of 2 arrangements for solo lyre, of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6″, […]
I used to do a lot of travelling (35,000 frequent flier miles one year*) teaching classes on a new software technology. Yeah I’m a nerd but at least I got to see a lot of the world on someone else’s dime. One of the offices where the students gathered was in Vélizy-Villacoublay, a suburb of Paris, […]
Rather than re-type the whole thing, some highlights of Susie’s message to the masses in case you’re not on the email list. Hope to see all the old faces and a few new ones. There’s a lot more stuff that will be discussed tonight but here are the solid nuggets: Open House is tonight, Tuesday, September […]
A couple of years ago the Hawaii Food Bank put out the word that they were running short on some basic staple foods as the holidays were approaching and several of the local service organizations made plans to help out. There wasn’t much time to organize things as we only had a couple days notice so we […]
So here’s the deal…YouTube is massive. Seriously massive. When I’m puttering in my workshop I’ll search for a musician or band or musical genre followed by the word “concert” and get a zillion things to listen to via my bluetooth-enabled little boom box. Very cool. There are also audio books and recordings of pretty much […]
Just a head’s up that Amazon is no longer making donations via the Goodshop interface. They’ve started up their own version called Amazon Smile. You can register and do your shopping at https://smile.amazon.com/ and buying eligible products will result in a 0.5% donation to the charity of your choice. Eligible products will have “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” […]