Dancing in Bavaria

It’s not very often, at my age, that I get asked to go dancing, most especially when it’s Bavarian folk dancing! Concert work took me to the town of Ottobeuren, not too far from the Alps, to play on a couple magnificent instruments in an enormous baroque basilica. The Riepp organ (1766) is justly world-famous … Read more

Cloister Musings from the Labyrinth

Every church music director has a mixture of excitement and dread in the days and weeks leading up to Easter. Culminating in the Triduum, the last three days of Holy Week, there’s never a question that the work will be anything less than physically and emotionally exhausting. And now that I’m serving the two largest … Read more