Month: February 2012

This has been a banner winter for me and Monsieur Poulenc; I’ve had the opportunity to play all or part of his organ concerto sixteen times in performance.  Once, last November, with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (B.A.R.S.), twice in January with the Santa Cruz County Symphony, and thirteen times with the San Francisco Symphony … Read more

This week, two titans of church music passed from this world to the next; each had an enormous influence on me. The first of these, Gustav Leonhardt, was actually only an acquaintance of mine, having met him while still a Conservatory student.  But his career was one that I emulated.  Here was a brilliant keyboard … Read more