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 event sponsors to email announcements to info@earlymusichawaii.org and attach promotional materials, such as posters, when available.
Special Event – Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Early Music Hawaii, in association with St Theresa’s co-Cathedral, St Andrew’s Cathedral, the Abendmusiken Concert Series of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, and Hawaii Public Radio’s The Early Muse, is honored to present:
Vespro
della Beata Vergine, 1610
by
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Friday, November 5 • 7:30PM St. Theresa’s
Co-Cathedral
Sunday, November 7 • 4:00PM St. Andrew’s Cathedral
The Whole Noyse, period brass
ensemble
Bach Chamber Choir Soloists and Orchestra
St. Andrew’s Cathedral Choral Scholars
Derek Chester, Matthew Tresler, Joseph Z.
Pettit, tenors
Georgine Stark, Mihoko Ito, sopranos
Nicholas Walters, Keane Ishii basses
Carl Crosier, conductor
Concert-goers all around the world have been celebrating the 400th birthday of Claudio Monteverdi’s magnificent Vespers of 1610, a ground-breaking publication of the new Baroque era in which Monteverdi himself was the foremost pioneer.
Now, for the first time ever, the Vespers will be performed in Honolulu, with professional musicians from Hawai’i and the mainland who have years of experience in the genre. For example, the critical elements of a period brass ensemble, The Whole Noyse from California, and two tenor soloists have performed the Vespers together more than 30 times in the US this year alone. The professional string and keyboard musicians, soprano and bass soloists, and the choral singers are all from Hawai’i and have many years of experience performing early Baroque music.
This will be a concert performance of international caliber, staged in the most appropriately resonant spaces in Honolulu – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Hawaii concert-goers to enjoy this magnificent work live. The Vespers is a sacred work of sublime inspiration, a blueprint for the new Baroque style. It is also a work of operatic dimensions, with florid vocal solos and ensembles, large and complex multi-part choruses, and many passages of exciting orchestral music. It was published shortly after the first two full operas ever performed, L’Orfeo and Arianna, both by Monteverdi himself. And it shares much of their inspiration – including the dramatic opening fanfare from L’Orfeo.
Preferred seating (front and center) tickets are $35, general seating $25. Ian Capps, host of Hawaii Public Radio’s The Early Muse, will give a presentation illustrating the Vespers, its music and its significance in the development of the Baroque, for a donation of $75, which includes one preferred seating ticket to either concert. The presentation, in two parts, will be at HPR’s Atherton Performing Arts Studio, 738 Kaheka Street, on Wednesday, October 27, and Friday, October 29, at 7:00PM.
In addition, your tax-deductible donations at any level will help to ensure the success of this venture and will be greatly appreciated.
| PURCHASE BY POSTAL MAIL | |
Monteverdi Vespers Tickets |
Join Early Music HawaiiClick Here to Download Membership Form |
September 2010 Events
Big Island
-The Waimea Consort
-Saturday, September 4, at 6:30PM, at
Sacred Heart Church, Hawi
-Sunday, September 5, at 4:30PM, at HPA Davies Memorial Chapel, Waimea
It's all about food (and drinks....),
a concert of a capella vocal music from the Renaissance to the
present day, with works by Janequin, Compère, Sermisy, Lassus, Purcell,
Poulenc, Adams, Stetsenko and Wilken. Donations accepted at Hawi for Hawai'i
Island's Foodbank; and at Waimea for the Slow Food Hawai'i Convivium.
www.waimeaconsort.org
-West Hawaii Recorders and Big Island Baroque
-Tuesday, September 21,
at 5:30PM, at the Kailua-Kona Library
Early Music for Recorder, Harpsichord and Voice.
The program of Renaissance and Baroque music includes: a Baroque Cantata,
A gia tre volte, by Giuseppe Porsile; two short selections by William Byrd
for solo harpsichord; a few selections of Renaissance and Baroque consort pieces
for recorder ensemble; and a Trio Sonata in g minor by G.F. Handel for two
recorders and harpsichord.
Recorders: Marilyn Bernhardt, Anne
Klimke, Kathy Ogata, Laurel Rain and Garrett Webb
Voice: Kelly Miles
Harpsichord: Anne Klimke
Future Events -
2010-2011
Friday and Saturday, May
13 and 14, 2011 at 7PM
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou Street
LCH Festival Choir and Bach Chamber Orchestra
-The Early Muse on
Hawaii Public Radio - September Program Schedule, 9PM every Sunday
KHPR Honolulu 88.1, KKUA Maui 90.7, Streamed live at
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
-September 5: Heinrich Schütz and
the 30 Years' War
-September 12: Great Songs from Renaissance Venice
-September 19: German Sonatas, Italian Style
-September 26: Flemish Masters who stayed Home
