240 pp. May 2002
ISBN 978-0-9662945-6-9P
Out of Print
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The Honolulu Symphony: A Century of Music
by Dale E. Hall
The history of the Honolulu Symphony Society is a singular one, and Dale E. Hall presents to us the rich past of its first hundred years. The story begins in 1902 at a time when Hawai`i was so removed from the musical entertainments of the Mainland that its residents had to make their own amusements. In this atmosphere was the Society formed--as a men's club which assembled to drink beer and play classical German music. The narrative emerges as a woven cloth, its threads colored by the many personalities of its various conductors, the music of its powerful performances, and the difficult struggles, financial and political, to keep it alive. The story ends in 2002 with the Honolulu Symphony as a major U.S. orchestra, far from its humble beginnings. Hall has unearthed this grand story through meticulous research, gleaning information from interviews, correspondence, diaries, magazine and newspaper articles. What emerges is a unique story: the history of the Honolulu Symphony Society.
Dale E. Hall has been immersed in the Hawai`i music scene since 1974, when he began teaching musicology and music history at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.
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