December 24, 2013
Tags: Christmas Eve Robert Browning, Hunt Club, Italian Art Songs, Sorrento hotel, The OK Chorale
It’s Christmas Eve (morning). There are streaks of rose madder in the sky. All is calm and bright before The Onslaught of Holiday. This morning I read Robert Browning’s (very) long poem “Christmas Eve.” A dream is set off by the poet going into a dreary church service on Christmas Eve, falling asleep during the Read the Rest…
December 9, 2013
Tags: Green Lake, Pathway of Lights, Steeleye Span, The King, The OK Chorale
The OK Chorale has sung itself into performance mode: two down and two to go. You still have a chance to hear us if you live in Seattle. We sang for Pinehurst Court, a senior housing complex, and home of the grandmother of one of our sopranos. It was a hot, crowded, noisy venue but Read the Rest…