Staff Picks: Liberty Peralta

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba

Published October 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM HST

HPR’s Senior Director of Marketing and Communications, Liberty Peralta, shares her top picks and her love of Muse and the K-pop sensation, Stray Kids. Learn more about the her work at HPR, Muse’s symphony, “Exogenesis,” and about K-pop’s creative integration of classical music.

Listen to Liberty's staff picks:

This classical music conversation aired on Aug. 29, 2024.

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