The Stark Duo • Monday, February 3, 7:00 pm

Stark Duo graphicFor the next in our First Mondays concert series, we welcome good friend of LCH music, the Stark Duo.

Known to audiences around O‘ahu, The Stark Duo represents the finest in artistry, virtuosity, and creativity. Since 1991, the duo has performed a widely varied and unjustly-neglected repertoire, including an emphasis on American music. Darel Stark, violin and viola, and Georgine Stark, soprano, will perform songs without words, vocalizes, as well as a few surprises, including works by David Diamond, György Kurtág, Wallingford Riegger, D. Stark, R. Vaughan Williams, Eugène Ysaÿe, and more.

Pupus and non-alcoholic drinks will be served before the concert beginning at 6:30.

Free-will donations are welcome.

The 2019–20 series of First Monday Chamber Concerts is free, and all are welcome. Visit our First Mondays Chamber Concerts page for a listing of the concerts in the series and to learn how you can support these concerts.

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Yin & Yang featuring HI Arts Lab • Monday, January 6, 7:00 pm

yin/yang graphicFor the next in our First Mondays concert series, join us as we seek to explore the human condition—as well as the physical world—for the opposites of each other. What does it mean to be opposite one another? To be diametrically opposed to another way of thinking? Or to be physicall so different from one another? One is starving; the other is abundant. One is overjoyed, the other overwhelmed. One is Native Hawaiian, the other Western European. Are we really that far apart from each other?

This performance is produced by HI Arts Lab, Honolulu’s newest performing arts company, bringing a variety of art forms together to create innovative and collaborative experiences. Visit www.hiartslab.org for more information.

Pupus and non-alcoholic drinks will be served before the concert beginning at 6:30.

Free-will donations are welcome.

The 2019–20 series of First Monday Chamber Concerts is free, and all are welcome. Visit our First Mondays Chamber Concerts page for a listing of the concerts in the series and to learn how you can support these concerts.

Driving directions, bus information, and parking

German Vespers · January 1 · 4:00 pm

German Vespers posterWelcome the new year with German Vespers for New Year’s Day, a tradition at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu since 2002. The service honors the church’s heritage as a congregation founded by German immigrants to Hawaii‘i and the the German practice of ushering in the new year with religious celebrations.

This year’s German Vespers features Cantata 122, Das neugeborne Kindelein, by J.S. Bach, Cantate Domino by Dietrich Buxtehude, Magnificat in D by Johann Pachelbel, and hymns auf Deutsch to create a wonderfully unique and culturally rich vespers service.. Music we be performed by the LCH Choir, soloists, and the Bach Chamber Orchestra, all under the direction of Scott Fikse. The sermon will be offered (in German, with translation) by the Rev. Anke Flor.

Join us for this perennial favorite, and ring in the Neues Jahr! The worship service is free, and a freewill offering will be received to benefit the church’s music program.

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