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Your Favorite Classical Composers - Fall 2020

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Dabney Gough
Published October 12, 2020 at 8:57 AM HST
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During our Fall Pledge Drive, we are highlighting Essential Classical Composers, as voted on by our HPR-2 listeners. We asked you which classical composers could you not live without? To whose music do you turn over and over? Or that you find endlessly fascinating?

We are counting down the top eight during our Fall Pledge Drive, which kicked off October 19, 2020.

#8 -  Brahms

 

#7 - Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky was a trailblazer, according to host Craig DeSilva.

#6 - Dvorak

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Dvorak got his start "at the ripe old age of 6," according to John Kalani Zak.

#5 - Vivaldi

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Sharene Taba connects Vivaldi's oeuvre with a meaningful way to support HPR in this pledge drive.

  #4 - Chopin

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Ever the tragic and romantic artist, Chopin died at the early age of 39, as host Ian Capps describes.

  #3 - Beethoven

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Beethoven was a legend in his own time, as Craig DeSilva tells us.

  #2 - Bach

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Louise Keali?iloma Lanzilotti describes how J.S. Bach's reputation as a "composer's composer" developed only after his death.

  #1 - Mozart

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Gene Schiller introduces Mozart as your #1 Essential Classical Composer.
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Dabney Gough
Gough brings more than 15 years of marketing experience to her position at HPR. She most recently served as Director of Marketing at Hawaiian Ola, producer of Hawai‘i-made organic beverages. Prior to that, Gough spent five years at Whole Foods Market, where she oversaw marketing and community engagement for their Hawai‘i stores. She also served as one of the founding co-chairs of Generation Listen, an HPR initiative established with the mission of engaging younger listeners with the station.
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