December 4, 2009 | 5 comments
Two weeks ago, I got to play the pipe organ in the original Mother Church edifice in Boston. What a treat! If you are unaware, I have a pipe organ background, going back to my days at Stanford University. While
August 17, 2008 | 3 comments
While driving a scenic route through part of the Alps today, we stopped at a viewpoint to take in the majesty of the mountains around us. While our eyes feasted on snowcapped Mount Blanc in the distance, our ears were
August 8, 2008 | 10 comments
Last Saturday, I received news that my piano teacher of younger years, Cherry Courteau, had passed on. I was asked to play at her memorial service, which I agreed to do. The service was held yesterday. The news of her
July 25, 2008 | 8 comments
I am a musician and love to use musical analogies to bring out spiritual points. Today, I was thinking about how each of us is a great musical melody being discovered. Some great composers of music, such as Mozart, Beethoven,
June 26, 2008 | 1 comment
I love this innovative idea that came in from a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday school. She wrote, “Since the Church Manual specifies only “Hymn,” in the order of the services without reference to what hymns we have to