Jonathan Korth of Honolulu Chamber Music Series previews the new HCMS season starting later this month. Hear inside information about the performing artists and some of their recordings.
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.
Japanese anime is all the craze in Hawaiʻi. Anime audiences love both the visuals and the music score composed by Joe Hisaishi. Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra will perform music from films by Studio Ghibli, one of Japan’s leading animation studios. HSO’s Michael-Thomas Foumai, who’ll be conducting the concert, and Totoro, one of the stars of the film My Neighbor Totoro, gave a sneak peek on Evening Concert.
Silent film music expert and conductor Rick Benjamin stopped by Morning Café to preview Chamber Music Hawaiʻi’s upcoming screening of Buster Keaton’s silent film classic "The General."