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Revealing Favorites on Evening Concert

What’s your favorite Beethoven symphony? Michael-Thomas Foumai, composer-in-residence of the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra, reveals his favorite on Evening Concert. But you’ll have to listen to the end to find out. In the meantime, Foumai shares a preview of the upcoming concerts in HSO’s Beethoven Festival. You’ll hear about Beethoven’s top hits as well as a contemporary work that pays homage to the “Old Bei.”

This classical music conversation aired on March 3, 2025. Evening Concert airs weekdays at 6 p.m. on HPR-2, your home for classical music.

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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