CLASSICAL MUSIC INTERVIEWS

Silent film music expert and conductor Rick Benjamin stopped by Morning Café to preview Chamber Music Hawaiʻi’s upcoming screening of Buster Keaton’s silent film classic "The General."

Chamber Music Hawaiʻi’s Jim Moffitt and Tommy Morrison stopped by Morning Café to preview Saturday’s Spring Wind Quintet concert, featuring selections from Mozart’s Harmoniemusik and the Gran Partita.

Up-and-coming organist and social media sensation Lukas Hasler joined Morning Café to preview his upcoming recital presented by the Hawaiʻi Chapter American Guild of Organists.

Trumpet players JoAnn Lamolino and Casey Tamahana of the Honolulu Brass Quintet stopped by Morning Café ahead of their program “Dances Around the World” with two performances this weekend on Oʻahu. Originally scheduled for March 2020, the concerts feature modern and traditional works, including Enrique Crespo's Suite Americana.

Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra’s Michael-Thomas Foumai joined Evening Concert to preview HSO’s first concerts of the new year this weekend at the Hawaiʻi Theatre. Foumai will conduct a tribute to Frank Sinatra performed by Jimmy Borges featuring Jordon Segundo on Saturday, Jan. 11.

Classical Conservation Conversation with Dr. Shawn Lum began in April 2024 as a way to celebrate Earth Day. Eight months later, Dr. Lum talks about his weekly research in finding news on nature and conservation and how it relates to the culture and the people of the Pacific.

HPR’s On-Air Campaign and Community Event Producer, Kyla Herrmann, joins Evening Concert to talk about the new HPR member t-shirt designed by Maui artist Alexis Kageyama of East Wind Print Co.

Honolulu Brass Quintet trombonist Gabe Cruz and Chamber Music Hawaiʻi General Manager Chris Cabrera visit Morning Café to provide an overview of this weekend’s highly anticipated Holiday Brass concert at the Cathedral of St. Andrew.

Early Music Hawaii president Scott Fikse and director Ian Capps stopped by Morning Café to discuss this weekend's French Baroque concert at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu.

Dr. Lum examines the conservation of plants carried by explorers across the Pacific. He highlights that 40 percent of native plants in Hawaiʻi originated from Indo-Malaya. Familiarity with these plants helps foster a continued conservation that has persevered through the ages.