Top Career Moment?
Working with churches, every Dedication Sunday has been a “top career moment.” Worshiping in a newly finished space, seeing the architecture in-use as it was designed to be used, is altogether gratifying, inspiring and humbling. It’s probably the main reason I do what I do.
How was your best vacation spent?
A Fall hike from Lake Louise to the mountain teahouses at Lake Agnes and the Plain of Six Glaciers is still vividly present in my mind’s eye: the golden colors of the Larch constantly changing through the course of the afternoon, with a thin fog rising from the turquoise waters of Lake Louise at the end of the day framing views back toward Victoria Glacier. Time for a cocktail!
First concert you attended, at what age?
My first “concert” was one of the free midday organ recitals offered at the brand-new Kennedy Center in 1974. I was studying music with our church organist at the time, and getting-out of school to head downtown for something this geeky fit my personality perfectly–then and now. Say what you will of Edward Durell Stone’s big-box architecture: to a 7th grader, the grand spaces impressed as much as Vierne’s Carillon de Westminster.
