No Sousa in sight. In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, American Independence looks beyond the usual patriotic soundtrack to offer a broader, more colorful portrait of American classical music. Spring Wind Quintet is joined by pianist Jonathan Korth for a program full of motion, shimmer, impulse, and song, from Barber’s beloved Summer Music to selections...
Two horns transform the sound of the string quartet. Twin Horns features Anna Lenhart and Jamie Sanborn alongside the Galliard String Quartet for a program that explores the warmth, depth, and power of this unusual combination. From stormy drama and sunrise glow to Mozart’s intimate horn writing and Beethoven’s grand Sextet, this concert brings extra...
Two horns transform the sound of the string quartet. Twin Horns features Anna Lenhart and Jamie Sanborn alongside the Galliard String Quartet for a program that explores the warmth, depth, and power of this unusual combination. From stormy drama and sunrise glow to Mozart’s intimate horn writing and Beethoven’s grand Sextet, this concert brings extra...
A CMH holiday tradition returns with one of the biggest sounds of the season.Holiday Brass brings together a 13-piece brass ensemble, the Orvis Choral Scholars of the Cathedral of St. Andrew, organ, timpani, and percussion for a festive concert that fills the cathedral with warmth, brilliance, and joy. Featuring more than 20 musicians in one...
Step into a world where poetry, music, movement, and hallucination blur together.Dreams & Delirium centers on Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a surreal landmark for voice and ensemble that follows a lovesick clown through fantasy, obsession, humor, violence, and madness. Featuring mezzo-soprano Maya Sypert, choreography and dance by Pei-Ling Kao, and Tresemble, this theatrical program brings Pierrot’s...
Every piece has an architecture.Crosscurrents moves through three distinct musical worlds: the luminous balance of Bach and Mozart, the fractured modernist energy of Hindemith, and the sleek French art-deco brilliance of Poulenc. Each work is built differently, with its own sense of proportion, color, and surprise.Classical elegance, modernist edge, and French sophistication meet in one...
Every piece has an architecture.Crosscurrents moves through three distinct musical worlds: the luminous balance of Bach and Mozart, the fractured modernist energy of Hindemith, and the sleek French art-deco brilliance of Poulenc. Each work is built differently, with its own sense of proportion, color, and surprise.Classical elegance, modernist edge, and French sophistication meet in one...
Two composers grappling with intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional transformation.Brahms Sextet pairs Brahms’s First String Sextet with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, two deeply expressive works for expanded strings. Brahms’s Sextet has often been associated with the aftermath of his broken engagement to Agathe von Siebold, while Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht was inspired by a moonlit story of confession...
Two composers grappling with intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional transformation.Brahms Sextet pairs Brahms’s First String Sextet with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, two deeply expressive works for expanded strings. Brahms’s Sextet has often been associated with the aftermath of his broken engagement to Agathe von Siebold, while Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht was inspired by a moonlit story of confession...
Honolulu Brass Quintet celebrates 50 years with a program shaped by two powerful forces: fire and water.Fire & Water showcases the color, power, and versatility of brass, from the heat and motion of Fire Dance and Vuelta del Fuego to the flowing brilliance of Handel’s Water Music. Bold, bright, and elemental, this anniversary concert honors...
Honolulu Brass Quintet celebrates 50 years with a program shaped by two powerful forces: fire and water.Fire & Water showcases the color, power, and versatility of brass, from the heat and motion of Fire Dance and Vuelta del Fuego to the flowing brilliance of Handel’s Water Music. Bold, bright, and elemental, this anniversary concert honors...
Be transported to the cafés of Buenos Aires and Paris, where music, conversation, and late-night energy blur together long after the lights go down.Café Espressivo features guitarist Jeff Peterson with the Galliard String Quartet and pianist Jonathan Korth in a program that blends classical and contemporary styles with tango, jazz-inflected chamber music, and expressive new...
Part theater, part myth, and part musical fever dream, The Soldier’s Tale reimagines Stravinsky’s classic work through a contemporary Hawaiian lens with newly created narration by former Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate Brandy Nālani McDougall.Alongside Michael-Thomas Foumai’s Olmsted Gardens and Daugherty’s Dead Elvis, inspired by the surreal image of an Elvis impersonator wandering through the desert, this...