Music

A very special treat! Sir James Galway and his lovely wife, Lady Jeanne, performed on the Hour of Power at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, May 2006.
Click here to read my post about seeing Sir James perform in Marin in March 2006.
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Accompanying me on my upcoming trip to New York City to play at Carnegie Hall will be a very dear friend, my college roommate. We will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of our friendship this year and I had a milestone birthday a couple of months back, while she will mark that same milestone later this year. We decided that this would be a great opportunity to take a trip together and have some fun.

Some months ago, as we were cementing our plans, she asked me, “O.k., so what’s the deal with the flute, anyway?” I’ve gotten the same question from a good number of other folks.

To sum it up succinctly: Playing the flute is the achievement of a lifelong dream.

When it was time to start band in the fourth grade, I wanted to play the flute. Well, that’s not quite right. I longed to play the flute. Yearned. Dreamed. I begged my mother to let me take up the flute.

The answer? “No.”

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Sunday Scribblings #49 — Superstition

I am not a superstitious person. Friday the 13th is just another day, I don’t throw salt over my shoulder, I step on cracks, and black cats don’t faze me.
There is, however, one thing that I confess to being superstitious about: The way I warm-up when I first begin practicing [...]

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Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.*

1 Corinthians 10:31

This week, I am thankful for an opportunity that I have been given: On March 25, 2007, just over one month from today, the Delta Winds (a conglomeration of members of the Stockton Concert Band, Lodi [...]

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