This past spring break the Kona Choral Society’s youth and children’s chorus program held their 2nd ever SPARK! Music Camp for children grades K-8. The free three-day camp was held from 8am to 12 pm each day at Kealakehe Intermediate School. The 64 child participants represented twelve different local schools: Kealakehe, Konawaena, KPPCS, Innovations, Holualoa, […]
Since it’s composition in 2014, up-and-coming composer Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living has been performed all over the world. In preparation for our May 13th concert, here are the program notes for the mostly-traditional work. Overall, the work is a prayer for rest (“Requiem”) for the living, as much as for the deceased. It’s […]
Have you heard the latest? Chorus America, “the advocacy, research, and leadership development organization for choruses, choral leaders, and singers,” has come out with a study recently on How Children, Adults, and Communities Benefit from Choruses. Here are some of the key findings: 1. Choral singing continues to be the most popular form of participation in […]
Susan Duprey and many of our KCS singers gathered to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration held on Sunday January 15th at the Old Airport Pavilion. It was exciting to see KCS pictured in this West Hawaii Today feature about the concert right there on the front page of the paper! (Here’s a link […]
Our fall season was a huge success! The Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Messiah concert on December 4th ended-up with a full-house audience. Katherine Crosier, who played the organ for the concert, and who is not only an amazing musician but a skilled writer of the well-known blog “Another Year of Insanity: Musings From Behind the […]
This article was first published by Katherine Crosier on her blog “Another Year of Insanity: Musings From the Organ Bench” on December 5th, 2016. To read the original post on her blog click here. It’s a musician’s worst nightmare… being in the middle of a concert and the lights go completely black! Yes, it happened […]
Wonderful write-up in the Big Island Entertainment Scene section of the West Hawaii Today paper. The article discusses our upcoming concerts. Enjoy!
On October 13th and 14th the Kona Choral Society held their first ever music camp for children ages 4-14. SPARK! Music Camp was so named because the goal was to spark an interest in music within the children of Kona. The two-day camp featured a variety of musical experiences, including ukulele, keyboard, band, percussion, dance, a performance by […]
This summer, KCS joined sister choir, the Windward Choral Society (WCS), under the name Nā Pu‘ukani, on a tour of Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. The name, Nā Pu‘ukani, means, “The sweet voiced singers and merry music makers,” which was gifted to the combined touring choir by Kumu Hula Ka‘anohi Aipa, who sings with WCS. Paul Lam, founder of Perform International, had […]
There is no doubt, music can touch the soul. However, there is more and more actual research about the effects of music on ones person these days. Our very own Artistic Director Susan McCreary Duprey is featured in an article in Well-Being Hawai‘i, talking about her personal experiences with the Healing Power of Music. Click […]