The First Mondays Concert Series continues with a program of Renaissance Polyphony by the Italian master Palestrina and his student Allegri. Scott Fikse conducts a chamber choir composed of members of the LCH Choir and guests as they perform motets, madrigals, and Palestrina’s heavenly Missa Aeterna Christi Munera.
The choir features sopranos Sienna Achong, Aubrey Aikens, and Marie Lickwar; altos Olivia Arnold and Anna Young; tenors Brian Minnick, Tomás Ramos, and Benjamin Sobel; and basses Scott Fikse, Keane Ishii, and David Webb.
Limited in-person seating is available by reserving a seat through our Eventbrite page. Proof of vaccination or a negative covid-19 test taken within the past 72 hours is required for entry; masks are required throughout the performance.
Those not attending in-person can tune in on our Worship Services page or the LCH Facebook page.
Free admission, suggested donation of $20 supports our concert ministry.
Concert Program (PDF in a new window)
Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support the concert series are gladly accepted (details below).
First Mondays 2021–2022 Concert Series
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Join us for a livestream concert featuring the wildly talented baritone Jacob Scharfman. Mr. Scharfman is a classically-trained American baritone performing opera, concert, and song repertoire. He won First Place in the 2021 National Opera Association Competition. Mr. Scharfman sang the 2019–20 season in the Opéra national du Rhin Studio, following his European début in the 2018–19 Salzburger Landestheater Studio. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Merola Opera Program, he won the Oratorio-Lied Prize at the 2019 Viñas Contest in Barcelona and was a National Semi-Finalist in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Mr. Scharfman has prepared a concert for our audience featuring the works of Mozart, Ravel, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and others. Suggested donation, $20.
While classical, Gospel, and contemporary popular music comprise the Morgan Singers’ repertoire; the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance. The Morgan State University Choir has performed for audiences throughout the United States and all over the world—including Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Join us for a rare opportunity to hear this outstanding choir during their spring tour to the islands.
While the modern brass quintet has only been around since the 1940s, a wealth of compositions has developed, ranging from the obvious bold and energetic works that horns are known for to the more tender and subtle repertoire these instruments are beautifully capable of playing.
Any list of the greatest composers of art song would be sorely incomplete without the names Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert.
Author Jacqueline Carey illuminates an interesting metaphor when she says “There are patterns which emerge in one’s life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So…the greatest sonatas are composed.”
Join us for the 60th Anniversary celebration of Hawai’i Youth Opera Chorus (HYOC), featuring a rich assortment of solo and ensemble performances by the talented members of this celebrated ensemble. The program will feature excerpts from HYOC-commissioned youth operas, small ensemble and solo works by western composers, and compositions by Hawaiian monarchs that pay homage to this beautiful island home and culture.
First Mondays Chamber Concerts continue with an evening of authentic Middle Eastern music featuring the talented ensemble Island Oasis, lead by Kip McAtee. Enjoy danceable melodies from throughout the Balkans and Middle East, featuring the lute-like oud, an end-blown flute called the ney, clarinet, percussion, and other instruments.
The Lamentations of Jeremiah are five poems in the form of laments for Jerusalem and Judah, invaded and devastated by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. These moving elegies have inspired composers for centuries, perhaps most famously English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis.