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Evening of Chopin

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ETUDES OF CHOPIN 7 p.m. Church of the Pacific Hawaiian concert pianist Robert Nakea will perform. $24 adults, students $12, discount for food donation for church food pantry.

BREAKING THE TIE

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Did you hide him? The Brewster sisters, Aunt Martha and Abby, toast their latest philanthropic accomplishment in Arsenic & Old Lace, the latest production by the Kauai Community Players at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

Arsenic & Old Lace runs through Jan. 20

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rsenic & Old Lace is the latest offering by the Kauai Community Players.

“Ron (Wood) could be cast as (Herman) Einstein,” said Arsenic & Old Lace director Dennis McGraw, peering from behind his copy of the script. “We could do something with the hair.”

The latest production by KCP is written by Joseph Kesselring and directed by McGraw with a cast of local stage celebrities, including Anne Coyle and Dottie Beckeart who play the Brewster sisters — Abby and Aunt Martha.

The play runs 7 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays until Jan. 20 Photos by Dennis Fujimoto/The Garden Island at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

What is going to happen to me? wonders Mortimer as Jonathan and Einstein work to break a tie with the Brewster sisters, Aunt Martha and Abby,

SEE TIE, PAGE 3 in Arsenic & Old Lace at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

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Jonathan and Einstein consider ways to break the tie with sisters Aunt Martha and Abby while Mortimer wonders why the window seat is so lumpy in Arsenic & Old Lace at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

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another nephew, show tied with the sisters in the number of victims they have up with Dr. Einstein, the Continued from Page 2 killed. “How do we break the homicidal maniac pair, they realize they are tied with tie? This is a fun script, and the Brewster sisters in the it’s appropriate for all ages. ” Sunday matinees are at number of victims they have The Brewster sisters have 4 p.m. claimed. been populating their cellar The farcical black comedy They set their sights on with the remains of lonely is centered around the elderly gentlemen, consider- Jonathan and results are Brewster family who is dehumorous. scended from the Mayflower ing their act to be philanTickets are available at thropic. settlers and a bunch of www.kauaicommunityplayAll the while, the sisters insane homicidal maniacs. contemplate sending Teddy, ers.org “I’m really excited about The next KCP presena nephew, to Happy Dale this play,” said Connor tation, The Shadow Box because Teddy thinks he is McGrath who is cast as directed by Jo Grande, will Jonathan, a nephew who is Teddy Roosevelt and the bodies are victims of yellow run Feb. 14 through March supposed to be a victim of 3 at the Puhi Theatrical fever.

Mortimer who with Dr. EinWarehouse.

When Mortimer, yet stein discover that they are Einstein contemplates the demise of Arsenic & Old Lace director Dennis McGraw during a rehearsal break in the lobby of the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

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FEEDING BODY AND SOUL

An evening of Chopin piano music tonight with Robert Nakea

Everest in the world of piano playing, which despite their daunting exigence of labor that may endure for years in he Etudes of Frederic acquiring them into one’s Chopin present a double plethora of two fingers, bring pleasure to both musician and listener dozen keyboard masterby their sheer beauty and works displaying unparpathos. alleled pyrotechnics from It was precisely these the 19th century, where instrumental virtuosity ruled latter characteristics of and concert artists were the Chopin’s Etudes that were so revolutionary for their time, rock stars of their day.

Chopin’s Etudes are the Mt where musical substance is TGIFR!DAY

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equally matched to the vertiginous level of technique required. Up till Chopin’s time, Etudes, or “Studies”, were composed and treated like exercises, with scant regard to loveliness of melody or harmonic complexity.

At 7 p.m. tonight in the sanctuary of Church of the Pacific, the Etudes of Chopin, will be played in their entirety, by Hawaiian concert pianist, Robert Nakea. The concert is also part of an effort to build awareness of Church of the Pacific’s food pantry, a charitable food assistance program for needy families on Kauai’s North Shore.

A portion of ticket proceeds will go toward the food pantry. In addition, concert attendees who bring a food donation (canned good, dry good, commercially packaged food product) will receive a discount on their admission ticket.

Nakea has toured much across the United States and Europe over the span of his career, including such venues as Wales’ Llangollen International Festival, the Bergen International Festival in Norway, and Operafestival di Roma.

This summer Nakea completed a two-week tour of the Western United States SEE SOUL, PAGE 6

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PRESLEY’S ‘COMEBACK SPECIAL’ STILL RELEVANT Original episode aired Dec. 3, 1968

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lvis Presley wanted an honest answer. Steve Binder gave him one.

Presley was meeting Binder for the first time in Binder’s office in Los Angeles in 1968. A music and television producer, Binder had been asked to put together an NBC television special featuring Presley, who had become more of a movie actor than a rock ‘n’ roll singer in the 1960s when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were dominating the rock world.

Presley and Binder talked for about an hour about music and established a rapport, Binder recalls. Then Presley popped the question: “What do you think of my career?”

“I was young and brash in those days,” Binder told The

ADRIAN SAINZ ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press in a phone interview. “I said, ‘I think it’s in the toilet.’”

According to Binder, Presley said: “Well finally, somebody’s talking straight to me.”

That meeting became a meaningful step in the creation of the one-hour TV show “Singer Presents...

Elvis,” better known today as the ‘68 Comeback Special.

Aired on Dec. 3, 1968, the program was a rapturous return for the 33-year-old Presley, whose music had

mostly stuck to soundtrack songs from his often pulpy, saccharine films. It was sponsored by Singer, the sewing machine company.

Relaxed at some points, energetic during others — and always inspired — a still-handsome Presley sounds strong and soulful.

He appears genuine: He sweats, his black hair gets messed up.

The finale features an emotional Presley singing “If I Can Dream,” a moving piece written for the show that served as a response to the tumult of 1968, when the Vietnam War served as the

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Elvis Presley is shown at the International Hotel where he made his first public stage appearance in 9 years in Las Vegas.

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backdrop for the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Presley returned to prominence. He began performing for sold-out crowds in Las Vegas and produced “From Elvis in Memphis,” an album that included “Suspicious Minds” and “In the Ghetto.”

Presley’s career would slow down. He divorced his wife, Priscilla, and began abusing prescription drugs. He died of a heart attack on Aug. 16, 1977, in Memphis.

Still, his popularity has

SEE PRESLEY, PAGE 6

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THIS ONE’S FOR THE BIRDS – AND YOU, TOO CYNTHIA LYNN & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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ere’s a New Year’s Resolution: Learn something unexpectedly new!

Presley

“The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters,” by Darryl Jones, is certainly one way to start!

When this book came into our inventory, it immediately captured interest. Who knew anyone ever researched this kind of activity?

Sure, many people, including ourselves, have fed wild, free-roaming birds.

As this book points out, the history of humans feeding birds dates back thousands of years. We seem to get a nearly automatic pleasure of

Presley’s return to TV required a leap of faith. Binder Continued from Page 4 says Presley’s manager, Col. Tom Parker, wanted a Christmas-themed special. remained high. Graceland, “The colonel handed me a the tourist attraction built box with 20 Christmas songs around his former Memphis home, draws 500,000 visitors in quarter-inch tape that a year. HBO recently released disc jockeys all over America a documentary, “Elvis Presley: were playing on their radio stations as Elvis’ Christmas gift The Searcher.” And his image to America,” Binder said. “There and voice are regularly used was no Elvis in it, other than in films, TV shows and comhim singing these Christmas mercials.

Much has been said about songs.”

Binder would have no part the importance of the ‘68 Comeback Special to Presley’s of a Christmas show. The typically hard-nosed Parker career. In a 2008 Los Angeles relented. The special included Times article, writer Robert only a small reference to the Lloyd calls it a “moment of holiday, with “Blue Christmas.” change.”

Musical director Billy Gold“He regains his voice,” Lloyd enberg, who preferred music writes. from “West Side Story” over Television had been an early Presley’s “Hound Dog,” said he friend to Presley. He made groundbreaking appearances had to find a path to Presley’s “subconscious character, the on variety shows hosted by things that were going on that Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle. he didn’t say, but did.”

Later, however, they became “He was tender and lovely sources of embarrassment. and polite,” Goldenberg said Binder says Presley comduring a forum during Elvis plained that hosts openly Week in August. made fun of him.

out it, and, well, the birds are pleased with the easy meal, too.

In fact, you should see the cyclone of excited chickens at the golf course in Kalaheo when the red vehicle drives in to drop off their anticipated food scraps!

“The Birds at My Table” goes quite a bit further actually than just the good feelings of feeding birds. Indeed, author Darryl Jones, Professor and Deputy Director of the Environmental Futures Research Institute at Griffith

Goldenberg said he also noticed “a lot of rage” in Presley.

“There’s a lot of raw primitiveness,” Goldenberg said.

“There’s a lot of sexuality in Elvis. And if course there is the tender side.”

Goldenberg wanted to “bring Elvis into the 1960s” and make him “valid.”

NBC’s investment was validated. The special became its top-rated show of the year and has grown in stature since. The network hopes to replicate the magic in February. The “Elvis All-Star Tribute” will feature Blake Shelton as host and will include wellknown performers recreating the original program.

A box set released in late November includes a Blu-ray version of the program, and Binder has written a book about the show.

A show he never thought would endure.

“Nothing is dated. That show could have been shot yesterday,” Binder said. “I had no idea it would ever be seen again.”

University, reveals the fascinating results and effects that our feeding birds has not only on the human side, but on the birds themselves: their behaviors, their interactions with their environments, even how they interact with each other compared to the birds in the wilds that have little no feeding interaction has an effect greater than we with humans.

Interestingly, even our sin- would think!

Jones’s research into this gular act of feeding a bird or a small group of birds actually subject is truly quite impres-

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performing the Chopin Etudes, and will be coming out with a CD recording of them sometime next year.

Nakea has had the good fortune of studying with very fine teachers from his youth through adulthood. However, one in particular, with whom he studied for 25 years and exercised the greatest influence was Dr. Lidia Janina Zakrzewska, a Polish pianist trained in the Warsaw Conservatory between the 1920’s and 1940’s.

“Pani Zakrzewska instilled in me a reverence for every note of Chopin,” Nakea said, “where not a single not is to be disparaged as insignificant, or overlooked.”

“This makes the music even twice as expressive, as every thread of the compositional structure from top to bottom is played as though sung, lending the music greater humanity, thereby, creating numerous pathways that lead directly from the instrument chorus of voices to the listener’s soul,” he added.

Illustrating the Polish people’s depth of devotion to their art, and favorite son Chopin, Nakea recounts a tense, but inspiring moment during World War II, when his teacher, who had joined the

sive, as the references in the back of the book spans 20 pages. Yet, even with this level of deep-research revealing the results of our interactions with our feathered friends, the author has managed to present this depth of study in a very readable and entertaining way.

(See? Learning something new already!)

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Resistance against the Nazis, miraculously discovered a piano while conveying messages from one Resistance unit to the next.

It was being used to cover a hole in the wall of a bombed-shattered building.

Knowing full well the danger, and that there were German soldiers on the other side of that wall with machine guns, she mustered her courage, and began playing Chopin’s “Revolutionary Etude,” in defiance before the Nazis of all the death and destruction she had witnessed at their hands.

The soldiers immediately started firing in the direction of the totally unexpected sounds of the piano. Fortunately, their bullets hit the piano’s wood casing, but not the teenage girl playing the impassioned strains of her countryman.

Halfway through the piece, the gunfire stopped, allowing her to finish the Etude, whereupon she could hear the soldiers clapping and pleading with her “Noch einmal! Noch einmal!” (“Encore! Encore!”)

Tickets for Nakea’s concert are $24 for adults, which is discounted to $20 along with a food donation at the door.

Students are half price $12, ($10 with food donation.) Church of the Pacific is located off of Kuhio Highway, less than a mile before Princeville’s Main Gate, on Kapaka Road.

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d Kawamura continues to make mochi using the traditional usu, or mortar, and wooden mallets known as kine in Japan.

Mochi is usually made between Christmas and New Year’s, and involves a lot of people gathering to get the process done. Kine are created a few days before the actual mochitsuki, or mochi making, and the rice is washed and soaked a day, or two ahead of the mochitsuki.

The cooked mochi rice is pounded with the kine, and once done, the mochi is formed by another crew. The mochi can be plain or filled with a variety of fillings. At the Kawamura household, these include the traditional azuki bean paste, and more exotic peanut butter, and even strawberries.

Although no clear explanation is given on why mochi is eaten as part of the New Year’s celebration, one explanation is to obtain the power of the gods that resides in the mochi. It is also believed to bring good luck and prosperity in the coming year.

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