LIHUE — Music bridges the gap between generations. Tonight, Island School will host the youthful sounds of Ethereal Harmony, Magic Violins, Amoroso, guest performers and accompanists for a concert of all ages. “The October 20 string concert, Of Wings &
LIHUE — Music bridges the gap between generations.
Tonight, Island School will host the youthful sounds of Ethereal Harmony, Magic Violins, Amoroso, guest performers and accompanists for a concert of all ages.
“The October 20 string concert, Of Wings & Strings, begins and ends with Ludwig van Beethoven,” said director Helen Sina. “Mr. Beethoven has traveled a long way to conduct the young Magic Violins in the first song of the evening, Ode to Joy, the choral section of his Ninth Symphony.”
Performance by Magic Violins will consist of six musicians between the ages of six and eight for a truly timeless show.
“Magic Violin players have fun with fiddle pieces,” Sina said.
Solos by Schumann, Seitz, Lully, J.S. Bach, Telemann, and Mark O’Connor fill the first half of the program. In the second half, older students offer the second movement of the Bach “Concerto for Two Violons,” “Kreisler’s Praeludium & Allegro,” “ Monti’s Czardas,” Pagnini’s “Cantabile,” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.”
An adult trio, Amoroso, will perform a Telemann Dance Suite, and several young guest performers will demonstrate their growing musical and performance skills.
“Music is a measure of happiness in my life,” said Amoroso violinist Madeleine Bontea.
Special guest performances will be given by second graders Blake Hashimoto and Brooke Hashimoto, and five-year-old violinists, Asa Thompson and Chassity Rae Peru, who help connect the audience and performers.
“There is not enough space to mention the discussions and experiments and discoveries that happen to students and teacher,” Sina said. “We learn from each other. We work to say what the music says to us and find that we become the instrument we are playing.”
Sina summed it up best with her quote in the concert program: “When we began to make music, no one told us we could become butterflies. That we could tremble the air with sound — flutter rhythms of color — paint the air with shapes that touch the soul. We learn to echo the ache of lonely hearts — to twist pain and joy together into being.”
To end the evening, the Ethereal Harmony group will perform a composition that features a number of themes by Beethoven and other famous composers.
The concert starts at 6 p.m.
