Honolulu Symphony News

 
Music Thursdays with Tony Sarabia and Richard Steele: Hawaiian Music
WBEZ (blog)
Did you know, for example, that Hawaii's Honolulu Symphony Orchestra is the country's oldest orchestra west of the Rockies? It was founded in 1900. Then there's the electric lap steel guitar – prevalent in the best twangy country music – which was ...

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State allows view exemption for tower
Chicago Tribune
Developer OliverMcMillan and landowner JN Automotive will be allowed to advance their plan to build the 400-foot Symphony Honolulu tower with its broad side along an Ewa-Diamond Head axis. The rule, enacted in November, requires that broad sides of new ...

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Back home on the Big Island
Wunderground.com (blog)
I know that I could never live on O'ahu again..particularly on the Honolulu side! The best part was visiting my old friends and hearing, for the first time in several years, a rather fine symphony orchestra in the Blaisdell Concert Hall..the new ...


 
Don't weaken vision for Kakaako
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
OliverMcMillan, developers of the $380 million luxury condominium at 850 Kapiolani Blvd. named Symphony Honolulu, have persuaded state authorities and some community groups that their high-rise tower should be cleared for construction with the ...

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Sesame Street Presents: The Body
Midweek
(847-3511, bishopmuseum.org) Blaisdell Concert Hall, 777 Ward Ave., Honolulu, until May 20, weekday 7 pm, Friday and Saturday, 8 pm, Sunday 4 pm, visit website for cost and list of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra schedule. (hawaiisymphony.net, 593-9468) ...


 
Ebb & Flow Arts Presents North South East West Festival 2012 - Six Events ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Four concerts take place on Maui, one in Honolulu, and one in Hilo. Featured performers include leading musicians from San Francisco Symphony, Hawai'i Symphony, an improvising virtuoso pianist from Canada, a team of six pianists, and E&FA's Multi media ...

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Retiring, Allan Cohen reflects on 32 years at helm of KMOV
STLtoday.com
So some of Cohen's preemptions (in recent years, no more common than on competing stations) weren't for profit but for a cause, as he commissioned and aired specials on the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Forest Park, the St. Louis Zoo and other ...

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