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Happy Force of July: Michael-Thomas Foumai on Evening Concert

Crag DeSilva (left) and Michael-Thomas Foumai (right) in the HPR-2 studio.
Crag DeSilva (left) and Michael-Thomas Foumai (right) in the HPR-2 studio.

Happy Force of July!

Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra’s artist in residence Michael-Thomas Foumai joins Evening Concert host Craig DeSilva to talk about HSO’s summer concert series. HSO’s Sheraton Starlight Festival starts with The Music of Star Wars on July 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Waikiki Shell.

This classical music conversation aired on July 16. Evening concert airs weeknights, 6 to 8 p.m. on HPR-2.

Craig DeSilva is glad to be playing recorded music on the air instead of playing for a live audience on stage as did when he studied piano. He began piano lessons when he was a child and continued piano studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (where he majored in broadcast journalism and minored in music) under the late Peter Coraggio.
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