Watch your HSO and Ron Artis II on KGMB

We are proud to introduce “Journey Together,” a massive show in collaboration with local artist Ron Artis II and special guests Mike Love, Kawika Kahiapo, and Tylor Neist.

We invite you on a journey of reflection, joy, loss, and love. Watch an evening of original funk, soul, and rock music written by Ron Artis II, conducted by Tylor Neist, and filmed at the historic Hawaii Theatre on television.

This special event features Ron Artis II's band performing twelve original songs with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, and another set of songs from the 2018 Soul Street album and the latest releases.

A holiday gift to the community

“The Nutcracker” made for television by Ballet Hawai‘i and the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra

Hawai‘i Public Radio presents a gift to our community with Ballet Hawaii’s The Nutcracker with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra. A long-standing, cherished tradition, The Nutcracker brings together two of Hawai‘i’s premier cultural organizations to present Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet uniquely set in Hawai‘i in a made-for-television event.

A holiday gift to the community

“The Nutcracker” made for television by Ballet Hawai‘i and the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra

Hawai‘i Public Radio presents a gift to our community with Ballet Hawaii’s The Nutcracker with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra. A long-standing, cherished tradition, The Nutcracker brings together two of Hawai‘i’s premier cultural organizations to present Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet uniquely set in Hawai‘i in a made-for-television event.

Watch your HSO and Ron Artis II on KGMB

We are proud to introduce “Journey Together,” a massive show in collaboration with local artist Ron Artis II and special guests Mike Love, Kawika Kahiapo, and Tylor Neist.

We invite you on a journey of reflection, joy, loss, and love. Watch an evening of original funk, soul, and rock music written by Ron Artis II, conducted by Tylor Neist, and filmed at the historic Hawaii Theatre on television.

This special event features Ron Artis II's band performing twelve original songs with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, and another set of songs from the 2018 Soul Street album and the latest releases.

Watch your HSO and Ron Artis II on KGMB

We are proud to introduce “Journey Together,” a massive show in collaboration with local artist Ron Artis II and special guests Mike Love, Kawika Kahiapo, and Tylor Neist.

We invite you on a journey of reflection, joy, loss, and love. Watch an evening of original funk, soul, and rock music written by Ron Artis II, conducted by Tylor Neist, and filmed at the historic Hawaii Theatre on television.

This special event features Ron Artis II's band performing twelve original songs with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, and another set of songs from the 2018 Soul Street album and the latest releases.

A holiday gift to the community

“The Nutcracker” made for television by Ballet Hawai‘i and the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra

Hawai‘i Public Radio presents a gift to our community with Ballet Hawaii’s The Nutcracker with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra. A long-standing, cherished tradition, The Nutcracker brings together two of Hawai‘i’s premier cultural organizations to present Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet uniquely set in Hawai‘i in a made-for-television event.

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