EMH endeavors to provide as complete a listing as possible of upcoming early music events in Hawaii – concerts, workshops, significant church services and more – featuring local musicians or visiting artists. This web page is updated periodically and we also send out listings by e-mail. If you would like to receive these listings, simply click on the Join Our Email List icon at the bottom of the page.
Our aim is to promote attendance at these events and increase appreciation of early music in Hawaii. We ask
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December 2011 - January 2012 Calendar
Oahu:
Early Music at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou St:
- Special Christmas Eve celebration:
December 24 at 10:30PM: Music for Christmastide, with
JS Bach's Cantata Und ist ein Kind geboren, BWV 142, and Cantata Gloria in
Excelsis Deo, BWV 191.
December 24 at 11:00PM: Nativity of Our Lord, with WA
Mozart's Missa Brevis in D minor, K 65.
- Sunday services at 10:30AM:
December 11: Ich bin eine Stimme, by Melchior
Vulpius (c. 1570-1615); Ich taufe mit Wasser, by Andreas Raselius (c.
1563-1602); and Organ Partitas by Georg Böhm
(1661-1733).
December 18: Organ music by JS Bach and Simon Sechter
(1799-1867).
Hawaii Public Radio's The Early Muse, with Ian
Capps
at 9:00PM every Sunday on KHPR 88.1, KKUA 90.7, KANO 91.1
- December 4: A Grand Revival in 17th century Munich:
Music by Johann Kaspar Kerll and Agostino Steffani
- December 11: The "New" Music of Giulio Caccini: songs and the
opera Euridice
- December 18: Victoria's 4th Centenary: Music for Vespers and
Christmas Mass "O Magnum Mysterium"
- December 25: Carols for a Medieval Christmas
- January 1, 2012: Roman
Delights, Entertainment for the New Year
- January 8: Old Testament Laments
- January 15: Paris in the Year 1200, Notre Dame and the Trouvères
- January 22: Jewish Music Month - Salamone Rossi, Bridging
Cultures
- January 29: 'Influenza Italiana', brilliant music for the
Baroque violin
Retrospective - Ensemble Mirable
In October 2011, the five virtuosi of Ensemble Mirable delighted audiences on Hawaii Island and Oahu with brilliant performances of the early Baroque violin music of 17th century Italy and Germany. Presented by Early Music Hawaii, they played the sonatas and entertainment music of Marini, Uccellini, Castello, Rosenmüller, Buxtehude and others, at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu and at a foot-tapping fundraising feast on the Kona Coast. They also taught master classes at LCH and performed the same program at the invitation of the Hawaii Music Society in Hilo. They were a terrific hit with audiences everywhere and were themselves delighted with the ambience of the venues and the unique Aloha spirit which welcomed them at every stop. We hope some day we can invite Elizabeth Blumenstock, Katherine Kyme, Kevin Cooper, Joanna Blendulf and JungHae Kim back to the Islands.
Save the date: Ciaramella at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, March 17, 2012
Early Music Hawaii will present Ciaramella, a leading American Renaissance Wind Ensemble, at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu on Saturday, March 17, 2012. The ensemble is well known at concerts and on recordings of lively 16th century Dance and Entertainment music, played on sackbutts, shawms, recorders and other original Renaissance instruments.
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Concerts by Ensemble Mirable, Ciaramella, and other touring groups presented by Early Music Hawaii, are funded in part by WESTAF, the National Endowment for the Arts and, through its membership of WESTAF, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Early Music Hawaii is grateful to these organizations for their generous support.
