Tickets are still available for the Hawaii Concert Society’s 56th season opener today at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Performing Arts Center. ADVERTISING Tickets are still available for the Hawaii Concert Society’s 56th season opener today
Tickets are still available for the Hawaii Concert Society’s 56th season opener today at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Performing Arts Center.
“Maligned Master: Setting the Record Straight on Salieri” includes music by 18th-century composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who were portrayed as rivals in the 1985 Oscar-winning movie “Amadeus.” It will be performed by Honolulu’s Spring Wind Octet and narrated by KHON-TV news anchorman Joe Moore.
Moore has been a Mozart aficionado for decades. He even had his own Mozart music program on Hawaii Public Radio for five years. What has bothered him for a long time, however, is the depiction in “Amadeus” of Mozart’s so-called rival, Salieri, as jealous of Mozart and obsessed with destroying him so that Salieri’s inferior compositions would be acclaimed.
Tickets are $25 general, $20 senior and $10 student Tickets are available at the door. For more information call 959-4064 or visit www.hawaiiconcertsociety.com.
