Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra’s Interplanetary Weekend

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)

Published October 24, 2016 at 10:33 AM HST

The Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra is having an interplanetary weekend of classical music.

This Saturday the “Pops” symphony is performing the music of Star Trek… pulled from both the series as well as films. On Sunday the Masterworks series presents ‘The Planets’, written by Gustav Holst. Both performances will use video projected above the performers, showing clips of Star Trek and footage from NASA. Jonathan Parrish is the Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra.

Next month on November 12^th… the symphony hosts a youth concert of “Peter and the Wolf” narrated by Hawai‘i Public Radio’s Michael Titterton.

More information can be found at hawaiisymphonyorchestra.org.

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Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)

Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.

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