Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra Broadcasts
On May 5: Maestro Dane Lam conducts Mahler's monumental Das Leid von der Erde, joined by tenor Warren Mok and mezzo-soprano Stacey Rishoi. Celebrate the year of the dragon with Tan Dun's cello concerto from Ang Lee's film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon performed by HSO's Mark Votapek.
HPR and Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra have partnered to broadcast performances from the orchestra's 2023-2024 Halekulani Masterworks Series.
Each show is hosted by John Kalani Zak and features performances recorded live at Hawaii Theatre Center and Moanalua Performing Arts Center.
These performances will air for nine weeks on Mondays at 8 p.m. on HPR-2, your home for classical music. The first broadcast airs on April 7, and the series concludes on June 2. Ways to listen & station locator.
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April 7 - The Dawn of Dane
A thousand and one nights of symphonic sorcery conjure the dawn of Music Director, Dane Lam. GRAMMY award-winning violinist
Jennifer Koh joins your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra for the spellbinding opening of the 23-24 Halekulani Masterworks season.
Join us for this journey into ritual, enchantment, and legend with the Hawaiʻi premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto “Procession,” the world premiere of Michael-Thomas Foumai’s Children of Gods featuring poetry narrated by Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate Brandy Nālani McDougall, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s timeless tale of Scheherazade.
Featured artists:
Dane Lam - conductor
Jennifer Koh - violin
Program:
Children of Gods – Michael Thomas Foumai - World Premiere
Violin Concerto – Missy Mazzoli - featuring Jennifer Koh
Scheherazade – Rimsky-Korsakov
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April 14 - Earth Cry - Tchaikovsky & Sibelius
Brilliant violinist Simone Porter and didgeridoo player William Barton join forces with Dane Lam and your HSO for a rallying roar of a changing planet. Experience the icy virtuosity of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, the wild heat of Sculthorpe’s Earth Cry, and a duel with fate in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.
Featured artists:
Simone Porter - violin
William Barton - didgeridoo
Program:
Earth Cry – Peter Sculthorpe - featuring William Barton on didgeridoo
Violin Concerto – Jean Sibelius - featuring Simone Porter
Symphony No. 5 – Pytor Tchaikovsky
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April 21 - Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
Your Hawaiʻi Symphony presents a sumptuous menu of "symphonic" ingredients perfect for the seasonal feast! Savor the sonic flavors of India and East Asia in Hovhaness' Symphony No. 15, paired with the world premiere of local composer Jon Magnussen's Kau Mea Nui Progress(ions). HSO's principal violist Mark Butin and baritone Leon Williams take center stage for a new orchestration of Brahms' intimate Two Songs.
The melodious banquet concludes with Schwertsik's bite-size five-minute symphony and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony (critically acclaimed and regarded as one of the greatest symphonies in classical music).
Featured artists:
Mark Butin – viola
Leon Williams – baritone
Program:
Kau Mea Nui Progressions – John Magnussen - World Premiere
Symphony No. 15, Silver Pilgrimage Op. 199 – Alan Hovhanness
Songs for Voice, Viola and Strings – Johannes Brahms - featuring Mark Butin and Leon Williams
Shrunken Symphony Op. 80 – Kurt Schwertsik
Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) K551 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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April 28 - Brahms Serenade No. 1
Lyricism and emotion run deep with the return of Maestro Anthony Parnther guest conducting your HSO with pianist David Kaplan. Hailed by Brahms as a masterpiece of art, Kaplan performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 paired with Brahms' Serenade No. 1 and the re-discovery of Florence Price's dark and enigmatic tone poem, The Oak.
Featured artists:
Anthony Parnther – guest conductor
David Kaplan – piano
Program:
The Oak – Florence Price
Piano Concerto No. 24 – Mozart
Serenade No. 1 - Johannes Brahms
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May 5 - Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger: Year of the Dragon
Your Hawaiʻi Symphony unites with the force of song, vision, and virtuosity, giving voice to the beauty and glory of our planet Earth. Dane Lam conducts Mahler's monumental song cycle of life, death, and nature, Das Lied von der Erde, joined by tenor Warren Mok and mezzo-soprano Stacey Rishoi, paired with Tan Dun's sweeping cello concerto from Ang Lee’s Academy Award-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon performed by HSO's own Mark Votapek.
Featured artists:
Mark Votapek – cello
Warren Mok – tenor
Stacey Rishoi – mezzo- soprano
Program:
The Grand Song – Huang Ruo - World Premiere
Crouching Tiger Concerto - Tan Dun -featuring Mark Votapek
Das Liede von der Erde – Gustav Mahler - featuring Warren Mok and Stacey Rishoi
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May 12 - Dane Conducts Don Giovanni
“Don Giovanni, your time is up!”
The opera world’s infamous scoundrel meets eternal damnation in one of the greatest operas ever. Mozart’s timeless tale of the immoral man punished storms to the concert stage. Don Giovanni’s lavish, shameless, and predatory lifestyle is numbered when his crimes invite an avenging stone phantom. Presented in concert performance, join your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra and a cast of voices for Don Giovanni in Concert, a symphonic opera house where evildoers face justice, fire, and brimstone.
Featured artists:
Rachelle Durkin – Soprano – DONNA ANNA
Brian Minnick – Tenor – DON OTTAVIO
Christopher Nazarian – Bass - LEPORELLO
Laurie Rubin – Mezzo-Soprano – DONNA ELVIRA
Sofia Troncoso – Soprano - ZERLINA
Leon Williams – Baritone – DON GIOVANNI
David Young – Bass – IL COMENDATORE/MASETTO
Program features selections from Act One and Act Two of Don Giovanni by Mozart.
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May 19 - Beethovenfest
The power of the human spirit triumphs over fate's dark shadows in a program of absolute Beethoven. Pioneering Hawaiʻi-born, Rapa Nui pianist Mahani Teave joins Dane Lam and your HSO for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, the unconquerable Symphony No. 5, and the Hawaiʻi premiere of Iman Habibi's Beethoven-inspired Jeder Baum Spricht (Every Tree Speaks).
Featured artist:
Mahani Teave – Piano
Program:
Jeder Baum Spricht (Every Tree Speaks) - Iman Habibi
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15 – Beethoven - featuring Mahani Teave
Symphony No. 5 – Beethoven
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May 26 - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Music can be subversive and it can speak truth to power. In this concert, pianist Michelle Cann joins your Hawaiʻi Symphony for a lionhearted program of resilience, revolution, and representation. Dane Lam conducts Florence Price's Piano Concerto, Margaret Bond's gripping evocation of the Civil Right movement in her Montgomery Variations, and Shostakovich's defiant Symphony No. 5, embodying the power of the art to free us from our shackles and lead us to freedom.
Featured artist:
Michelle Cann – Piano
Program:
Wuta deya ngutan nuwa (All this and more) – Deborah Cheetam Fraillon - World Premiere
The Montgomery Variations – Margaret Bonds
Piano Concerto – Florence Price - featuring Michelle Cann)
Symphony No. 5 – Dmitri Shostakovich
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June 2 - Petrushka & La Mer
The season finale of the 23/24 Halekulani Masterworks concludes with a circus of the sea. Music Director Dane Lam leads your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra through Debussy's vibrant depiction of the Sea, La Mer, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and the Orchestral Suite from Raise Hawaiki by HSO Composer in Residence Michael-Thomas Foumai.
Program:
Nā Hōkū Ōpio Fanfare – Michael Thomas Foumai
Petrushka (1947 Version) - Igor Stravinsky
Suite from Raise Hawaiki (Kealakahiki) - Michael Thomas Foumai
La Mer – Claude Debussy
Recorded at Moanalua Performing Arts Center
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