Sabbatical 1998 Photos
Oregon Bach Festival, Paris, South Africa
From Dallas to Capetown: Sabbatical 1998 Reflections
On sabbatical, James Walker visits Dallas, Chicago, New York City, Boston, London, Paris, Taize, Cape Town and Johannesburg. And is selected to spend June and July with Helmuth Rilling in a Conducting Masterclass at Oregon Bach Festival.
Canterbury and Foothill Master Chorale join forces
After Coventry Choir's Seattle tour, I went on my sabbatical. Tim Howard was conducting the Foothill Master Chorale at the time, and we determined that it would be an interesting project to combine Canterbury Choir with FMC for this spring concert.
Coventry tours the Seattle area
Concerts on Bainbridge Island and in Seattle, morning service in Seattle, and an Evensong on Mercer Island.
For an Epiphany celebration, Canterbury Choir presents Amahl and The Night Visitors
It was a wild idea and huge project to produce Amahl at All Saints. There was an amazing young boy soprano in the children's choir program at the time, Theo Lebow, and that fact rather became the clincher in the decision to move forward. Of course, this was not the simple production of my youth, using piano accompaniment only, played by the director. We had an actual director, a choreographer, lavish set and costumes, an instrumental ensemble. And the place was packed to the rafters for both performances. Theo now has an active opera career, and it is fun to remind him from whence he came. And we did use most of the historic 1969 props, most notably the revered crutch. It was a fantastic project for Canterbury and a big hit.