Intro

Concertmaster Ignace Jang and the HSO celebrate the sounds of the season with two representations of winter, from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, plus Vaughan-Williams’ tender Fantasia on Greensleeves. HSO principal horn Anna Lenhart will join as soloist in Mozart’s dynamic Concerto for Horn.

Sponsors

Kosasa Foundation

Intro

November brings us the heartfelt program Going Home: Songs of Comfort – just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Baritone Leon Williams performs a new arrangement of Dvořák’s soulful Going Home, and HSO’s principal flute Susan McGinn joins the orchestra for CPE Bach’s electrifying Concerto for Flute. Lyric for Strings by American master George Walker, the first African-American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music, will complete our program.

Sponsors

Kosasa Foundation

John Young Foundation

Intro

Our spine-tingling showcase begins with Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, a work composed in 2017 inspired by the minuet of a Haydn String Quartet. Music by Italian composer Respighi follows, his Ancient Airs and Dances inspired by Italian lute and guitar music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The Theatre Organ at the Hawaii Theatre Center takes the spotlight in Albinoni’s Adagio for Organ and Strings, which has been heard in many films since the 1960s. Bernard Hermann’s scary suite from the movie Psycho, and Camille Saint-Saëns’ crowd-pleasing Carnival of the Animals, with its musical depictions of exotic wildlife like tortoises, kangaroos, a swan – and pianists – complete the Halloween evening program.

Sponsors

Kosasa Foundation

Intro

Hawai‘i Youth Symphony Director, Joseph Stepec, conducts a program featuring two unique portraits of America: the finale of Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet, written while the acclaimed Czech composer was living in the United States, and American trailblazer William Grant Still’s touching Mother and Child for String Orchestra. Shostakovich’s chilling Chamber Symphony, a work inspired by war-torn Germany, and Bach’s delightful Concerto for Oboe and Violin with HSO’s J. Scott Janusch and Claire Hazzard, take us on a programmatic journey from chaos to calm.

Sponsors

Kosasa Foundation

Intro

The virtuoso strings of the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra take center stage, led by Concertmaster Iggy Jang. Enjoy the Hawai’i premiere of Starburst by Jesse Montgomery – a young American composer whose music has been electrifying audiences across the nation – Handel’s lyrical Concerto for Harp with the HSO’s own Constance Uejio as soloist, and Tchaikovsky’s impassioned Serenade for Strings.

Sponsors

Kosasa Foundation