August 19 - Services at Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church

Those who know me know how hard it is to get me out of bed in the morning. No matter how hard I try to align my schedule with the path of the sun, it never works. Routinely, I'm awake during the darkest hours of the night consumed by the compositional process and recital programming, and I'm sound asleep for some of the brightest hours of the day.

So of all the things to get me out of bed while the birds are still chirping, I can't think of much that has done a better job than C major, Beethoven, and Sunday morning church services. Wow, does it feel good to play the Waldstein Sonata in a big reverberant church for throngs of happy-faced Minnesotans!