Originally published on Themes & Variations http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/10/12/halloween-a-choral-music-scarefest/     Please refresh if all the videos don't load.  You may see your choir in this post!   Come on, admit it.  You sometimes peek through your fingers when you watch a horror flick.  Do... read more

Originally published: Have Organ Shoes Will Travel by Not the Church Lady AKA Kelly Galbraith  http://notthechurchlady.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/bits-of-useless-information/      BITS OF USELESS INFORMATION I have to stand on my soap box for this blog post.  Something has bugged me for more years than I can count & I... read more

Originally published as: http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/09/13/saint-michael-and-all-angels-a-musical-journey/ Please refresh if videos don't load.     A woman I know really well, who isn’t prone to flights of fancy, told me that an angel appeared to her during the night to reassure her that the problem she was wrest... read more

Originally published:  http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/08/15/the-many-faces-of-mary-a-choral-journey/ (note: Please refresh page if videos fail to connect.)     Eve and Mary by Sr. Grace Remington, O.C.S.O Having grown up a Baptist I was not one of one of those little girls that went to bed with prayer cards of the... read more

First published on http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/08/03/the-great-plague-fire-of-london-featuring-music-by-handel-part-rautavaara-tallis-mendelssohn/ 'Themes & Variations' by Kelly Galbraith   It seems every week or so when I listen to the radio or flip through the Globe and Mail, I am learning about a new super bug that has the pote... read more

Originally published as http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/07/05/women-who-rule-part-2-choral-music-inspired-by-the-queen-of-sheba-catherine-the-great-queen-krystina-wasa/       According to bookies, it would be in my best interest to place my loonies on the Venus symbol in favour of Prince William and Princess Catherine giving... read more

Previously published:http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/07/03/325/   I was never one of those little girls that played dress-up in princess costumes and K-Mart tiaras preferring instead to pretend I was a famous detective carrying around a notebook and magnifying glass, or sporting a beret, assuming the identity of an undiscovered great... read more

Originally posted: http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/06/12/the-song-of-the-sirens-the-ultimate-femme-fatales-with-music-by-alison-krauss-debussy-wagner-gliere-parry/     Deeply embedded in my DNA is not only a desire, but a primal need to be near water. I am fortunate that I live so close to the Humber River and Lake Ontario. From Ma... read more

Father’s Day is tomorrow.  This time to ‘honour dad’ started me thinking about a few classical music fathers and the complicated dynamics between father and son. (Johann Sebastian Bach gets his own blog entry!)   The first one that comes to my mind is Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang’s dad. Much of what we think abo... read more