This short summer sabbatical has been fruitful in many ways: energizing, relaxing, challenging and restorative. Highlights have been hearing my colleague Weicheng Zhao play brilliantly at the June National A.G.O. finals in Houston and a two-week trip to Costa Rica in July.
Language immersion experiences are intense. Sometimes it feels like hitting >
Ed Bacon's final Sunday as rector of All Saints; my final service in the street! It was a labor of love and a joyful celebration of Ed's powerful ministry at All Saints. And as my fingers were burning on the hot keys of the piano, as I led communion music, I joyfully realized that I need not do this again. It's a "both/and" world.
Permanently imprinted in my memory is my first one-to-one meeting with Ed Bacon when he became Rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena, in 1995. We met in my office, and I was well-prepared with a teeming brain and stacks of documents to show the new rector how we did things at All Saints.
After sitting down, >
Canterbury and Coventry choirs of All Saints Church opened the 2016 Western Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. Here's how it came together.
A new vocal ensemble for 6th–12 grade male voices (unchanged and changed)
The USC Doctor of Musical Arts degree student joins the All Saints music staff on September 1.
