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HSO features Two Gustavs

Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra

Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra’s Michael-Thomas Foumai talks about M&M. No, not the candy. But rather, two ground-breaking composers: Mozart and Mahler.

Foumai provides insight on two works by these composers being performed at the next HSO concert featuring two Gustavs. HSO’s principal oboist Gustav Highstein performs Mozart’s long-lost oboe concerto followed by Gustav Mahler’s crowning achievement, which few composers after Beethoven could accomplish – a ninth symphony. 

Mozart & Mahler 9
Sunday, Jan. 25
4 p.m.
Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall 

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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