  {"id":187492,"date":"2023-11-22T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T21:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=187492"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T21:39:32","slug":"uh-bands-reed-quintet-maui-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/22\/uh-bands-reed-quintet-maui-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> performers hope music will uplift Maui students"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-maui-waena.jpg\" alt=\"people smiling with instruments on a stage with hundreds of people behind them\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-187493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-maui-waena.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-maui-waena-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-maui-waena-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five haum\u0101na (students) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhbands.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Bands<\/a> traveled to the Valley Isle to share their talents and help inspire haum\u0101na at three Maui schools on November 20. In particular, their visit to west Maui aimed to help uplift the community devastated by the August wildfires.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-lahainaluna-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people performing with instruments in front of an audience\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-187494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-lahainaluna-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-lahainaluna-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-lahainaluna.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The members of the <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Bands Reed Quintet (Erin Matsushita, oboe; Mikey Han, clarinet; Hoku Matsushita, saxophone; Jake Yoshimura, bassoon; and Alice Choi, bass clarinet) visited Lahainaluna High School, Baldwin High School and Maui Waena Middle School. They performed for the students and played alongside them in their music classes.<\/p>\n<p>The quintet\u2019s performance featured a selection of Hawaiian songs, including music specific to Maui, including the <em>Maui Waltz<\/em> and <em>Kananaka<\/em>, a classic legend about a mermaid who lived in waters off of Lahaina.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people with instruments on a stage\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-187496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;re thankful for the opportunity to contribute to our neighbor island music communities,&rdquo; said Director of Bands Jeffrey Boeckman, who accompanied the students. &ldquo;We&#8217;re so happy to visit with our Maui music communities, and be able to play for and make music with these wonderful students. We&#8217;re also very grateful to Southwest Airlines for their support of our visit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Bands program is housed in the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/music\/\">Department of Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-students.jpg\" alt=\"people with instruments smiling\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-187499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-students.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-students-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-reed-quintet-baldwin-students-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group visited Lahainaluna High School, Baldwin High School and Maui Waena Middle School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1471,1597,133,9],"class_list":["post-187492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-arts-languages-and-letters","tag-maui-wildfires","tag-music","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187524,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187492\/revisions\/187524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}