The LCH Music and Worship Committee and LCH staff are carefully planning an in-person Compline service for June 6 as we begin our considered transition back to in-person worship. The number of attendees is limited to 35 to accommodate the 6-foot CDC distancing guideline. RSVPs and masks are required. Please use this link to RSVP.
We strongly recommend attendees be fully vaccinated. Volunteers will be present to take temperatures, check tickets, and help with distanced seating. We joyfully anticipate these steps toward gathering in person again as we also move forward with thoughtful patience, considering the care and health of one another.
For those living off island and others not ready for in-person worship, Compline will be livestreamed on our Worship Services page and the LCH Facebook page.
This will be final Compline for the season. Compline will resume on the first and thirds Sundays of each month beginning in September.
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.
The Stark Duo return for Diversely Unified—I, Too, Am America, a concert celebrating uniquely diverse compositions written for voice (Georgine Stark, soprano) and violin (Darel Stark, violin). The evening will include works by Paganini, R. Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Alan Hovhaness, and Hans Werner Henze. The duo will also feature the world premiere of a new work for voice and violin by Darel Stark, setting Langston Hughes’ powerful poem: I, Too.
LCH is taking a break from our traditional German service this year. Instead, join us for a short service of music and prayer in English and Hawaiian to celebrate and welcome the New Year.
Join the LCH family for an evening devotional of art, music, poems, and prayers, featuring readers from the LCH Women’s Book Club and members of the LCH Choir. The event sums up of the themes of Advent and Christmas. To the traditions of the antiphons and the wreath, we add the richness of poetic voices and music and take a little quiet time to reflect on the meaning of these symbols of our faith.
The art of hymn introductions was perfected in Germany, where the “chorale prelude” was developed by Johann Sebastian Bach and other north German composers. The chorale prelude is a relatively short setting for organ that is intended to introduce the hymn tune to the congregation. This concert will feature a wide variety of Advent chorale preludes by international composers from Germany, France, Norway, and the United States: Bach, Johann Pachelbel, Hugo Distler, Marcel Dupré, Egil Hovland, Gerald Near and Paul Manz. A quartet will sing the hymns immediately following each chorale prelude.