Concert Update: Due to unforeseen changes in artist availability for the performance of Raise Hawaiki, the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra has revised the June 16 program to feature three works. In place of the choral-symphony Raise Hawaiki, the orchestra will perform the Orchestral Suite from Raise Hawaiki, Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and Debussy’s La Mer for a new program titled, Petrushka & La Mer, conducted by Music Director, Dane Lam.

Dane Lam conducts Michael-Thomas Foumai’s (HSO Composer-in Residence) epic Hōkūleʻa oratorio, Raise Hawaiki.

Setting the words of Nainoa Thompson, Eddie Aikau, and Mau Pialug, Foumai’s sweeping choral symphony voyages through decades of Polynesian wayfinding. Journey through the trials and triumphs of the awakening Hawaiian consciousness, the 1976 maiden voyage to Tahiti, the Mālama Honua worldwide voyage, and the dream to “Raise Hawaiki from the sea.” (Eddie Aikau).