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Week of Friday, December 8, 2017 | Vol. 5, No. 49

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‘THE GLORY OF CHRISTMAS’ Kauai Chorale holiday concerts kick off Sunday

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Vocal group’s holiday performances will be last ones on Kauai directed by Lois Ricciardi

f you want to see Lois Ricciardi direct a performance of Kauai Chorale on Kauai, you have two chances left.

The first is 5 p.m. Sunday when the Chorale takes the stage at the St. Regis Princeville Resort for “The Glory of Christmas.”

The second is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15 at War Memorial Convention Hall for an encore of the holiday show.

BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY Ricciardi is stepping down after 28 years of directing the community vocal group.

So if you are looking for something to help get you into the spirit of Christmas, as well watch and hear the magic of Ricciardi and the Chorale, this is for you.

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70-member Chorale are expected to go.

“These outstanding musicians will join with other choristers from around the world to form the Distinguished Concerts Singers International, a choir of distinction,” according to a press release.

Dr. Jonathan Griffith, artistic director

and principal conductor for Distinguished Concerts International New York City, said: “The Kauai Chorale received this invitation because of the quality and high level of musicianship demonstrated by the singers SEE CONCERT P. 6

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Conductor Lois Ricciardi gets involved in setting up the Kauai Chorale for an animated group photo during rehearsal at the Island School auditorium.

These last shows will be special, Ricciardi told TGI. It has been an honor and privilege to lead such a dedicated organization, she said.

“When I conduct the last few notes, I have a feeling there will be tears in my eyes,” she said.

The Chorale’s upcoming performances under Ricciardi will include renditions of Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” Rutter’s “Gloria,” choruses from the Christmas portion of Handel’s “Messiah,” Z. Randall Stroope’s “Hodie,” and other tradition-

al Christmas songs.

Virginia Shepherd will be accompanist.

Special guests will be Immaculate Conception Church Children’s Choir, which is sure to deliver beautiful music of its own.

Ricciardi and the Chorale will be together one final time next year.

The group was invited to perform Carl Orff ’s “Carmina Burana” at the Lincoln Center in New York on May 28. This, Ricciardi said, is an exciting accomplishment. About 30 of the

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n the Saturday after Thanksgiving, restaurant-goers tired of tryptophan-laced turkey leftovers thronged to the dining room at Piazza.

Located in Princeville Center, the modern Italian kitchen serves up comfort food of a different sort: handmade pasta, cannellini bean soup and an assortment of salads starring flavorful, organic produce.

Piazza’s facade is an unmissable taffy pink. Inside, the restaurant’s aesthetic is more neutral, dominated by reclaimed wooden floors, rustic brick walls and high ceilings. There is a smattering of vintage Italian movie posters touting Charlie

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The menu, which changes seasonally, stars house-made pasta and mozzarella.

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And, of course, there’s pizza. Piazza’s Italian pizza oven, adorned in 4,000 copper pennies, is fueled by logs of Iron wood. Guests seated at the pizzaiola counter can watch as the restaurant’s chefs knead and toss the pizza dough before piling on the toppings and sliding the finished pie onto the fire. At 720 degrees, the oven cooks a Neapolitan-style pizza in five minutes.

Gluten-free pizza and Miyoko’s vegan mozzarella are available upon request.

“I’ve lived in Italy and New York, and our pizzas here are fantastic,” said Emily Dunn, a manager whose family is Sicilian. “This is

the best pizza you can find on the island, but we offer so much more than that.”

Although the menu is Italian, many of Piazza’s dishes are infused with a flair of Kauai. A classic scampi dish stars Kauai shrimp served over a bed of fettuccine, garlic butter, tomato, lemon preserves and parsley. The local fish, which rotates based on availability, comes seared with braised fennel, tomato olive tapenade and poached Yukon potatoes. The prosciutto di parma marries the saltiness of Italian dry-cured ham with the sweetness of roasted pineapple.

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Piazza is open for dinner daily from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Lunch service extends from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on weekdays only, with a menu that features salads and paninis.

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SPACE, IS IT THE FINAL FRONTIER? CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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ur voyage into the solar system continues!

This time, instead of amaz-

ing patterns in the movement of the planets and other heavenly bodies, we examine them directly through the myriad of images taken by our intrepid space probes and incredible space telescopes!

“The Planets: Photographs From the Archives of NASA” by Nirmala Nataraj, is a newly-released book of the most recent images in astronomical photography of our planetary system.

What immediately drew

our attention to this particular book was the amount of coverage devoted to the most-recently explored body in the heavens: Pluto! For many years, this once-ninth-planet was an enigma, and now thanks to countless hours of efforts by dedicated scientists and a high speed nine year voyage into deep space, we are blessed to be able to enjoy images of this far-flung world in all its fascinating and curious detail — able to be

enjoyed at our leisure!

This alone makes this book a high-recommendation by us, but there are also so many other fascinating images contained within. Did you know about the eerie hexagonal formation at the northern pole of Saturn? Or how about Jupiter’s auroras which are many times bigger than our Earth?

Or some of the fascinating textures on some moons which actually harbor strong

art that nature has made and for us to marvel in! Honestly, there are images that seem as if they are not even real… but they are! indications for the discovery After a perusal through of life other than our own? this book, you are guaranteed All these amazing mysnever to look at the night sky teries and more are in this the same again! beautiful hardcover book of Truly, the universe is a vibrant full-color images! Even beautiful thing! though this may be just our ••• local neighborhood planets, Ed and Cynthia Justus are they have astonishing wonowners of The Bookstore ders to show us, true works of in Hanapepe.

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a high quality of music and education, but they also become ambassadors for the entire community. This is an event of extreme pride for everybody and deserving of the community’s recognition and support.”

The singers will spend five days and four nights in New York City in preparation

for their concert. They will spend about 10 hours a day rehearsing.

“Not all of the time is spent in rehearsals, since there is so much history and culture to see in New York City,” Griffith said. “However, the performance is the primary purpose for their visit to the city.”

Ricciardi said performing at the Lincoln Center will be a wonderful conclusion to 28 years with Kauai Chorale.

“It’s a pretty exciting and a wonderful way to end this many years of working with a wonderful group of people,” she said.

Which is exactly what Ricciardi has enjoyed all these years of leading a non-audi-

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as well as the high quality of their audition recording.

“It is quite an honor just to be invited to perform in New York,” he said in a press release. “These wonderful musicians not only represent

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“I love working with people of various levels of accomplishments,” she said.

“So many come and cannot read music, but with a little bit of encouragement they accomplish a wonderful concert season.”

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riday was an all-day holiday affair in Lihue as hundreds of chairs and quik tents littered the sidewalks along Rice Street in anticipation of the annual Lights on Rice Parade presented by the Rotary Club of Kauai.

Ahead of the lighting extravaganza, the Kauai Museum hosted its annual Christmas Craft Fair.

The excitement built as Elizabeth Freeman and the Friends of the Festival of Lights opened the 21st exhibition of holiday folk art heralded by the voices of the Kauai Chorale before the first strings of light appeared on Rice Street.

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