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Petrushka & La Mer
Jun
16

Petrushka & La Mer

Intro

Concert Update: Due to unforeseen changes in artist availability for the performance of Raise Hawaiki, the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra has revised the June 16 program to feature three works. In place of the choral-symphony Raise Hawaiki, the orchestra will perform the Orchestral Suite from Raise Hawaiki, Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and Debussy’s La Mer for a new program titled, Petrushka & La Mer, conducted by Music Director, Dane Lam.

The season finale of the 23/24 Halekulani Masterworks concludes with a circus of the sea. Music Director Dane Lam leads your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra through Debussy's vibrant depiction of the Sea, La Mer, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and the Orchestral Suite from Raise Hawaiki by HSO Composer in Residence Michael-Thomas Foumai.

  • Dane Lam, conductor

  • Foumai, Michael-Thomas -Nā Hōkū ʻŌpio Fanfare

    Stravinsky, Igor – Petrushka (1947 version)
    I. The Shrove-Tide Fair
    II. Petrushka's Room
    III. The Moor's Room
    IV. The Shrove-Tide Fair (Towards Evening)

    Intermission

    Foumai, Michael-Thomas - Suite from Raise Hawaiki (Kealaikahiki)
    I. Hōkūleʻa and the Way to Tahiti
    II. Pwo (Master Navigator)
    III. Raise Hawaiki

    Debussy, Claude – La mer
    I. From Dawn to Noon on the Sea
    II. Play of the Waves
    III. Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea

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Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
May
19

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Intro

Music can be subversive and it can speak truth to power. In this concert, pianist Michelle Cann joins your Hawaiʻi Symphony for a lionhearted program of resilience, revolution, and representation. Dane Lam conducts Florence Price's Piano Concerto, Margaret Bond's gripping evocation of the Civil Right movement in her Montgomery Variations, and Shostakovich's defiant Symphony No. 5, embodying the power of the art to free us from our shackles and lead us to freedom.

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  • Dane Lam, conductor

    Michelle Cann, piano

  • Cheetham Fraillon, Deborah - Wuta deya ngutan nuwa (All this and more) [World Premiere]

    Bonds, Margaret - The Montgomery Variations

    Price, Florence - Piano Concerto

    Intermission

    Shostakovich, Dmitri - Symphony No. 5

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Beethovenfest
Apr
21

Beethovenfest

Intro

The power of the human spirit triumphs over fate's dark shadows in a program of absolute Beethoven. Pioneering Hawaiʻi-born, Rapa Nui pianist Mahani Teave joins Dane Lam and your HSO for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, the unconquerable Symphony No. 5, and the Hawaiʻi premiere of Iman Habibi's Beethoven-inspired Jeder Baum Spricht (Every Tree Speaks).

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  • Dane Lam, conductor

    Mahani Teave, piano

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

    Intermission

    Habibi, Iman - Jeder Baum Spricht

    Beethoven, Ludwig van - Symphony No. 5

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Dane Conducts Don Giovanni
Mar
10

Dane Conducts Don Giovanni

Intro

“Don Giovanni, your time is up!”

The opera world’s infamous scoundrel meets eternal damnation in one of the greatest operas ever. Mozart’s timeless tale of the immoral man punished storms to the concert stage. Don Giovanni’s lavish, shameless, and predatory lifestyle is numbered when his crimes invite an avenging stone phantom. Presented in concert performance, join your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra and a cast of voices for Don Giovanni in Concert, a symphonic opera house where evildoers face justice, fire, and brimstone.

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  • Dane Lam, conductor

    Rachelle Durkin, soprano

    Brian Minnick, tenor

    Christopher Nazarian, bass

    Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano

    Sofia Troncoso, soprano

    Leon Williams, baritone

    David Young, bass

  • Mozart, Wolfgang A. - Don Giovanni Highlights

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Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger: Year of the Dragon
Feb
11

Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger: Year of the Dragon

Intro

Your Hawaiʻi Symphony unites with the force of song, vision, and virtuosity, giving voice to the beauty and glory of our planet Earth. Dane Lam conducts Mahler's monumental song cycle of life, death, and nature, Das Lied von der Erde, joined by tenor Warren Mok and mezzo-soprano Stacey Rishoi, paired with Tan Dun's sweeping cello concerto from Ang Lee’s Academy Award-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon performed by HSO's own Mark Votapek.

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  • Dane Lam, conductor

    Mark Votapek, cello

    Warren Mok, tenor

    Stacey Rishoi, mezzo-soprano

  • Huang Ruo - The Grand Song (World Premiere)

    Tan Dun - Crouching Tiger Concerto

    Intermission

    Mahler, Gustav - Das Lied von der Erde

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Brahms Serenade No. 1
Jan
14

Brahms Serenade No. 1

Intro

Lyricism and emotion run deep with the return of Maestro Anthony Parnther guest conducting your HSO with pianist David Kaplan. Hailed by Brahms as a masterpiece of art, Kaplan performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 paired with Brahms' Serenade No. 1 and the re-discovery of Florence Price's dark and enigmatic tone poem, The Oak.

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  • Anthony Parnther, guest conductor

    David Kaplan, piano

  • Price, Florence - The Oak

    Mozart, Wolfgang A. - Piano Concerto No. 24

    Intermission

    Brahms, Johannes - Serenade No. 1

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Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
Dec
3

Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony

Intro

Your Hawaiʻi Symphony presents a sumptuous menu of "symphonic" ingredients perfect for the seasonal feast!

Savor the sonic flavors of India and East Asia in Hovhaness' Symphony No. 15, paired with the world premiere of local composer Jon Magnussen's Kau Mea Nui Progress(ions). HSO's principal violist Mark Butin and baritone Leon Williams take center stage for a new orchestration of Brahms' intimate Two Songs.

The melodious banquet concludes with Schwertsik's bite-size five-minute symphony and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony (critically acclaimed and regarded as one of the greatest symphonies in classical music).

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  • Dane Lam, conductor

    Mark Butin, viola

    Leon Williams, baritone

  • Magnussen, Jon - Kau Mea Nui Progress(ions)

    Hovhaness, Alan - Symphony No. 15, Silver Pilgrimage

    Brahms, Johannes - Songs for Voice, Viola, and Strings

    Intermission

    Schwertsik, Kurt - Shrunken Symphony

    Mozart, Wolfgang A. - Jupiter Symphony

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Earth Cry — Tchaikovsky & Sibelius
Nov
5

Earth Cry — Tchaikovsky & Sibelius

Intro

Brilliant violinist Simone Porter and didgeridoo player William Barton join forces with Dane Lam and your HSO for a rallying roar of a changing planet. Experience the icy virtuosity of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, the wild heat of Sculthorpe’s Earth Cry, and a duel with fate in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

  • Dane Lam, conductor

    Simone Porter, violin

    William Barton, didgeridoo

  • Sculthorpe, Peter - Earth Cry

    Sibelius, Jean - Violin Concerto

    Intermission

    Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illyich - Symphony No. 5

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The Dawn of Dane
Oct
8

The Dawn of Dane

Intro

A thousand and one nights of symphonic sorcery conjure the dawn of Music Director, Dane Lam. GRAMMY award-winning violinist Jennifer Koh joins your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra for the spellbinding opening of the 23-24 Halekulani Masterworks season.

Join us for this journey into ritual, enchantment, and legend with the Hawaiʻi premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto “Procession,” the world premiere of Michael-Thomas Foumai’s Children of Gods featuring poetry narrated by Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate Brandy Nālani McDougall, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s timeless tale of Scheherazade.

  • Jennifer Koh, violin

    Brandy Nālani McDougall, poet

    Dane Lam, conductor

  • Foumai, Michael-Thomas - Children of Gods

    Mazzoli, Missy - Violin Concerto

    Intermission

    Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai - Scheherazade

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