Symphony cancels concerts and will downsize - Hawaii News

Poi wrote:

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I believe America is a great country. So great that she recognizes her mistakes and makes amends. She has done it before with slavery, with sexism, with general racism, with AJA internment.

What you're really waiting for is same sex marriage, so you can propose to a Plantation Asian. Hope he doesn't say no, or your posts will never end.

Poi Loves Boys wrote:

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What you're really waiting for is same sex marriage, so you can propose to a Plantation Asian. Hope he doesn't say no, or your posts will never end.

Haha.

Too many facts for you.

Now you just blowing hot air.

Another Plantation Asian immigrant bites the dust.

Wot, U skayahd I going bring some moah numbaz?

Yep.

You hate those stats.

Poi wrote:

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Haha.
Too many facts for you.

"Facts" according to Omama, Mama, Mama-san and Poi are not facts.

Poi wrote:

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Haha.
Too many facts for you.
Now you just blowing hot air.
Another Plantation Asian immigrant bites the dust.
Wot, U skayahd I going bring some moah numbaz?
Yep.
You hate those stats.

Sorry, I didn't quite understand your last post. You must have been blowing something or sucking something when you typed it.

primo wrote:

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"Facts" according to Omama, Mama, Mama-san and Poi are not facts.

I noticed you left out the simple rebuttal.

No problem.

We all know what that means.

Honolulu Resident wrote:

There are other orchestras and big bands, but they all play without pay, I think. There's the Oahu Civic Orchestra, The Honolulu Community Band, the Kamuela Philharmonic Orchestra, the Maui Philharmonic Orchestra, the Matt Catingub Orchestra of Hawaii, and others, all made up of professional musicians, most of whom play just for the love of music and performing. They not only play without pay, but their performances are all free too, I'm told.

All except Mat Catingub's are amateur organization. From the Civic Orchestra website: "The Oahu Civic Orchestra is a volunteer, community orchestra which provides the opportunity for amateur musicians to perform classical, pop, and contemporary music." Matt Catingub's is Honolulu Symphony Pops.

Where are you getting your facts? Go do the rest of the research and come back with more accurate info.

Honolulu Resident wrote:

Someone should do a story about the musicians who have already left the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra after months of no paychecks. I understand that many have moved to the mainland to play in orchestras where they are paid. I heard that recent performances featured ONLY string musicians and that most of the brass and percussion musicians have already left to find other work elsewhere. The numbers being reported may therefore be skewed considerably with a lot of vacancies.

I went to a couple of concerts and they weren't STRING ONLY performances. However, they did change one of their pieces from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" to Mendelssohn's "Italian Symphony" because the latter required lighter instrumentation. Where did you get the STRING ONLY info?

Poi wrote:

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Maybe.
What you are saying is that maybe 50% of the applicants are also Japanese because they tended to be in band.
Some truth.
But NO HAWAIIANS?
Music?
The Royal HAWAIIAN Band?
Fricken Steel Guitar is Scott FURUSHIMA.
Come on. No Hawaiians can play steel guitar as good as Scott?
Nah, you won't convince me. I think its more Plantation Asian politics.

Why do you think the Royal Hawaiian Band needs to be made up of Hawaiians? The founder was a German and the instruments played are WESTERN band instruments. They play Hapa-Haole and Western music and not traditional Hawaiian music.

fact check wrote:

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Why do you think the Royal Hawaiian Band needs to be made up of Hawaiians? The founder was a German and the instruments played are WESTERN band instruments. They play Hapa-Haole and Western music and not traditional Hawaiian music.

I didn't say that.

I said that Hawaiians are the most musical people, as a group, in Hawaii.

I said that Japanese are only 16.7% of Hawaii.

And yet 50% of the band (which pays something like $50,000 a year for a part time gig) is Japanese.

I pointed out for those that claim there are no Hawaiian trombone players that even the steel guitar slot is taken by a Japanese. I know there are Hawaiian steel guitar players who would like to earn 50K a year on a part time gig.

This was all to illustrate, yet again, the power of nepotism and the inside track of Plantation Asian Democrats, Japanese in particular here.

Poi wrote:

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I didn't say that.
I said that Hawaiians are the most musical people, as a group, in Hawaii.
I said that Japanese are only 16.7% of Hawaii.
And yet 50% of the band (which pays something like $50,000 a year for a part time gig) is Japanese.
I pointed out for those that claim there are no Hawaiian trombone players that even the steel guitar slot is taken by a Japanese. I know there are Hawaiian steel guitar players who would like to earn 50K a year on a part time gig.
This was all to illustrate, yet again, the power of nepotism and the inside track of Plantation Asian Democrats, Japanese in particular here.

no like, no can, moloha

master baiter wrote:

<quoted text>no like, no can, moloha

See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.

Its the way your kind deals with uncomfortable facts.

too much bad management and wasted money

Poi wrote:

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See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.
Its the way your kind deals with uncomfortable facts.

lots of anger stored up no? why?

Common Sense wrote:

<quoted text>Its quite simple the down fall of the symphony shows what a third world backwater place Honolulu is. When the favorite destination of the majority of the population is Las Vegas how can a symphony survive? The majority of residents in Honolulu lack any sense of culture or the arts. Another tell tale sign of the mentality of Honolulu or Hawaii for that matter is when you are in a social setting and someone asks where you went to school the expected answer is High School NOT University or College like in a social setting in the rest of the world. This and the Las Vegas thing says it all! Oh lets not forget the obsession in the islands with sports while our kids loose 17 days of school a year!

Whose culture and whose arts?
Or are you saying the Anglo culture and arts are the only ones that matter?
I see many ethnicities practicing their arts and culture here...maybe you should look around.

The Hell with the Symphony !

It is the LOWEST priority in Hawaii for these grim economic times !

THIS is a high priority concern !

Fort Hood shooter was member of Homeland Security Panel advising Obama
Of course. Why not? He was a "moderate." Until he wasn't.

"Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation," from Gawker, November 6 (thanks to Mary Belle):

The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.
The task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a "Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post, and the London Times....

Posted by Robert on November 6, 2009 7:56 AM | 89 Comments

Common Sense wrote:

<quoted text>Its quite simple the down fall of the symphony shows what a third world backwater place Honolulu is. When the favorite destination of the majority of the population is Las Vegas how can a symphony survive? The majority of residents in Honolulu lack any sense of culture or the arts. Another tell tale sign of the mentality of Honolulu or Hawaii for that matter is when you are in a social setting and someone asks where you went to school the expected answer is High School NOT University or College like in a social setting in the rest of the world. This and the Las Vegas thing says it all! Oh lets not forget the obsession in the islands with sports while our kids loose 17 days of school a year!

i totally agree with you on this. hawaii has this huge self-depricating attitude, that they say is the aloha spirit. they are happy being uneducated and behind the times because they are afraid of change.

the whole reason that hawaii is back watered is because of all the idiot older generation in power, then they pass it down to their equally idiotic offspring.

all we have to do is vote out all of them. but the general public doesn't know any better. so it's a no win situation! just blow everything up and let God sort it out!