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Grant Okamura on Evening Concert

Grant Okamura (left) joins Evening Concert host Sharene Taba (right) in the HPR-2 studio.
Grant Okamura (left) joins Evening Concert host Sharene Taba (right) in the HPR-2 studio.

Grant Okamura, Professor of Music, Emeritus at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, joins Sharene Taba to talk story about the classical genre within the local band ensemble community.

This interview aired on May 19, 2022.
Evening Concert airs weeknights at 6 p.m. on HPR-2.

Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba grew up in Pearl City listening to a variety of music – mostly in the car and the choice of the driver (Grandma, Mom, Dad, sister or brother). It ranged from Hawaiian to Japanese Enka to Top 40 to HPR. Sharene played the violin in school, and is now a professional freelance harpist and mother. She and husband jazz bassist Dean Taba love to play and listen to music, and are raising their children to celebrate the love of learning and of all kinds of music.
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