Spectrum Hawaii; T-shirts, Quilts Festival, Sam Hook, Military Music; Big Isle Artists, Hiking Hawaii, String Concord Quartet

The following program is a production of h e t in Honolulu Hawaii Public Television the following program has been funded in part by grants from the Hawaii State foundation on culture in the arts and the people who Chevron in Hawaii in New York City tens of thousands of people kept close for a look at Hawaiians and their quilts on the north coast schools of fish. Keep a man company inside Schofield Barracks soldiers are on duty on time and in time with their music. But first Spectrum what he discovers the

source of T-shirt. You will find them just about everywhere on just about everybody here once. Plain white undergarments for men. T-shirts have gone public in a big way. These shirts can actually tell us a lot about ourselves this week about where we've been. Our political positions the sports we enjoy and even the beer we drink. It presents silent but ever present statements about who we are or hope to be. The rest of the world they can also be art. Each printed shirt requires a certain degree of design color selection and application technique. Many are simple and mass

produce. Others are crafted as either one of a kind or as part of a limited production or T-shirt wares have more than one. Now even institutions are collecting the Honolulu Academy of Arts is planning to print T-shirt designs onto archival material for preservation and at the University of Hawaii Dr. John Shiloh has assembled local T-shirts which portray a slice of island life. You see one of the very first popular T-shirts on the Island Hawaii. Holly Eavis strain poi and out of that shirt came a whole school of highly evil artists. Here you have Jong's Steenburgen. This is typical of a shirt that was done for a store and it's a very beautiful shirt. You see the sunset you see the loving detail on the store itself and they're still selling them in great quantities here.

That was done in 1977 because they can be quickly printed T-shirts also reflect political stands and timely protests. So la la la la la. Artist created shirts for young swimmers to protest use speedboats at a local beach. And because it was for children they made a whole set of little kinky T-shirts. This is happiness which is a T-shirt for an infant. And this is a T-shirt for a somewhat larger child. And the protest worked and the Department of Land and Natural Resources said that from now on only Hawaiian canoes and children can use the beach. Cultural Groups such as dance Hello's often print their own shirts to identify their members and their interests. So when you wear these things around the street all sorts of aspects of our local life are brought to your

attention and they're brought to their attention in a typically Hawaiian way which is true beauty through the visual loveliness that we see all around us and nature. Local T-shirts artist Cheney and Grant kug you Modu are among those who are creating designs unique to Hawarden their tools may differ. You use as an airbrush your motto applies his design with a silkscreened. Subject is life in the island. There will never be two of a kind. Airbrush features. Airbrushing is sort of like making one original and that's it. Since you can make coffee shirts will never be the same size. So like you do airbrushing or otherwise I can rapidly see things waiting

to happen. And this is sort of because it's fast on the spot and I think it will take him 30 minutes to complete the surface with potential customers looking on and other airbrush artists work in the heart of Waikiki which is good for the tourists. We do see scenes of scenery mostly and sometimes people want pictures of songs and decomposes as he paints canvas is the front of a medium sized shirt. His tools are mechanical and require skill and press. I suppose a thing's for sure. See what you get for that. You have the freedom to create sense you just have to

think about what you want to create what you want to do. How are you going to approach the colors of bright young buyers prefer the fluorescent he's seen as a souvenir that will provoke memories of a Hawaiian vacation. Yes it's a self satisfaction when a customer comes up to you and he says it's really a nice shop and he's really happy and that's it. That's the time when I get the most reward out of that customer customers really happy far away from the crowd of. Grant who sits alone drafting new design ideas for his company. Kane Lavoro the name cakehole road but the design ideas is taken out of the context

of island life which is rapidly changing. We're trying to capture the lifestyle that we're familiar with being in our midst 30s. It's not as much the lifestyle my father's generation is familiar with nor is it lifestyle. My nephews and nieces may be familiar with we more or less designed from our own personal experience. We try to have a subject matter that's fairly broad. But as we see the local neighborhood chain stands disappearing around us and as we see more and more fast food establishments come up with this kind of generic American quality to them we fear that those things that have made Hawaii unique and wonderful place to live and feel those things are disappearing and we have an obligation to some extent preserved that it is a subtle message laced with visual and verbal puns and just good design.

10. University of Hawaii art students began cane haul road 10 years ago today. Only Kaga Moto and his partner Carol Hasegawa remain produces a new upscaled line of shirts featuring abstract design looking for any shirts are printed. The design is subjected to a critique by the staff. A classic Classic. That's a possibility but I was afraid it might be too close to either mangle some or perhaps the classic shouldn't be darker. Maybe you could use a bright neon light show instead of it being black. After conferring with retail store buyers good Moto makes the final design. Then he and Glen Shirataki go to work 15 designs are put into production annually. It is because of are just like you and kug Emoto is a simple white undershirt of

yesteryear. It's taken on a new dimension. It's transcended a simple basic utilitarian quality and has become just a staple in what you would wear and have worn in so many different kinds of activities for so many kinds of reasons the island of Manhattan played host to the island state of Hawaii not long

ago as part of the rededication ceremonies of the Statue of Liberty he wants to re the great American quilt festival invited a display of Hawaii's cultural heritage. The white craftsmen responded by organizing lectures workshops demonstrations and clinics for personal instruction. My first thought was by the unprecedented nature of this event was not lost on what a craftsman president Benji Binnington. This is the first time we've taken an exhibition outside the state and it is lending a whole new direction to what we feel we could do as a state organization supporting the arts in Hawaii and parts of the

quilt are so important to the culture and the peoples of Hawaii. Always participation was funded by Hawaiian tells through a grant from GTP and who helped decorate the hall. The booze Pessah programs and Monod of the quilts. Thirty five New York Hawaiians selected by the Hawaii Visitors Bureau regional director Jimmy Carter Orion's residing in New York might be full time entertainers students airline or federal employees but they responded to the call vigorously. So 30000 people in four days passed by these symbols of Hawaii 17 quilts run display but not one was for sale. But what is bold quilt colors startled the spectators with their free flowing style. Quite unlike the ordered geometric patterns commonly found on the mainland.

This quote of Mylie breadfruit and Kahi is from Washington place. It was given to Queen Liu Kalani in the 1890s. The legacy of Hawaii drew the observers and interested Poulter's But master quilter merely Coloma noticed another attraction. It seems to me that all the other toys seem to accept that this was part of the beginning and that the way it was introduced was it had a kind of a deep spiritual body and its presentation. There was a great

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treated me. New Yorkers soon learned the difference between a penny olo and a pineapple. They were glad they came. It was a welcome respite from a cruel April. There was snow outside do the fishponds of the North Kona coast I've long been a source of food for the Hawaiian

people reached by lava flows throughout its history. The ponds have altered their shape but not their content. Sam who now cares for the fish of many of these puns. This area is known as Malawi it first belong to John Bako great granddaughter. Her father bought it for a while back in 18 eighties. Spot on me me I grew up in this area when I when I was a little boy the fish in the pond right now is Mollet and I like fish as we call it live out the hall and my name and you and my main fish is supposed to be the Malad and the island that freshwater raise for the leaves at the

time when I need to I drop bombs all back behind all those condominiums down and that take a lot of these fish for me and I'm Bansal it up some other limo that goes back there. What you call hametz every now and then but I don't think they can really I would you say commercialize the fish because is conservation it's not you know a commercial thing. Battalion marches on men of war protectors of peace both brave and gallant but even they step to the beat of the twenty fifth Infantry Division Band to Tropic Lightning takes to The View.

This is can be field located at Schofield Barracks O'ahu. Inside will be fun men on a mission a soldier's mission for all but for a select few. Also a musical mission. The music of the United States or entertainment to the troops to further

the community relations of the United States Army to enhance the esprit de corps. That's their primary mission secondary mission is combat. A brass quintet might be the goal of a soldier musician but for that privilege he must do all other missions as well. I came in to play in my home. I didn't have the money for school at the time. I'm still in the old town and I didn't want to go right to college. I just was kind of tired of school and I fared well. I want to play and they're going to pay me to play something that I always have to remember is everyone's a soldier first no matter what.

Everybody has 300 some jobs in the army but everyone is a soldier first. I remember I was in the 25th in Vietnam. I was very close by. And so we came up with a number of times we'd get reports of the band being playing somewhere and all of a sudden put down the instruments pick up the rifle and go. Most people don't realize that they see us march down the street. So that's really nice. Nice job. They don't see us crawling in the mud with our rifles which we have we have gas masks. We do all that stuff all that guerilla training we do it because we're an army. The Army doesn't make musicians but they welcome those already skilled because we were pretty well told. We went to this school if you don't already know it and can't do it

goodbye. Traditionally the Army band was all male. That is until Teresa Collins came along one time on audition notice came out in what they call the daily bulletin for musicians to audition for the band there at Port Jackson. So my sergeant thought it would be a big joke if he set up an audition without telling them that it was a woman. He said I have a soldier here who I'd like to audition on flute and they said well send your soldier over and when I showed up oh you know there were no women in any band but that one band at Fort McClellan and I auditioned there and was accepted and it was strange that it was just about him that audition me who's here now. And he sent a letter to Washington D.C. requesting exception to policy. The exception was made and there are other surprises in the Army's music such as Big Ben brass band came to my hometown. The all Army jazz and

can play a concert and that's where I knew that there were even bands that realize it. And I signed up for three years just to try it out because I wanted to play. So October will be playing in many high schools around the area. Not as a hard sell type of come on join the Army recruit but also just give the army presence and a school and show fine. It is an opportunity to be the musician takes to the field. He does what's expected of him as does every soldier who follows this creed

I am the infantry. I am my country strength and war pretty courage and peace. I am the heart of the fight wherever whenever. I carry America's faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle by my steadfast courage. I have won two hundred years of freedom. I forsake not my country my mission my comrades my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am the infantry. Follow me. This one time that we get to play. I mean

you know a lot of the times like a lot of times especially here we plan you know we doing Sodor and type stuff and a lot of times we dont have time you know because we don't like military games. Yet yesterday military games like outside is a big difference between playing outside and sitting down playing a home. But to me it is. And a lot of times when you know mean you don't get a chance to sit down and play so when they get a chance to sit down and play or really show what they can do they like that. I mean I really enjoy what I do so I brought first timers and thats why you Seirawan the sergeant. The

reason everyone the sergeant here is because there has been an you there are many U.S. Army bands in Europe one in Japan and Korea but only one in Hawaii. It's an assignment to cover the newcomers need not apply. You don't send people right to Hawaii when they come in because everyone wants to go here. Why you sort of held up as a re-enlistment area where find

you what would give you if you'd stay and we'll give you a call why you know come on out. Enjoy paradise for a while. And what do the old soldiers have to say. Musicians who bet their duty by pulling the purpose of alien hostilities or by stirring their comrades with the bugle corps. They come up and they hear the band playing on old marks that they really love or something like this and they all say it makes me really proud today. That type of thing. I

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Public Television the following program has been funded in part by grants from the Hawaii State foundation on culture in the arts and the people who Chevron in Hawaii steep slopes are a clue that you're walking in paradise. Spectrum who he takes a hike to find what beauty lies beneath the pali the genteel sounds of the preeminent Concorde's string quartet are revealed at an arduous rehearsal. But first Spectrum Hawaii welcomes a collection of art and artists from our newest style the big beguilement

no more. The Daveys Pacific Center in downtown Honolulu hosted a gathering of Big Island art recently and gremlins. When this gremlin loses his face it's for a purpose he will store your secret valuables. Or perhaps you prefer a large limb called limn boxers. The concept was created by Beguiler the artist Rieman Pelton the way

he came to Hawaii in general and the big island in particular where I live that is the first time in my life that I've been encouraged to do just what I want to do. Beguiling jewelry Sam Rosen after having spent 20 years in the California jewelry industry seems to have found his niche hasn't been well. How much are you going to make for it on it or for it. It's just right that's what you want to make him make it and everybody there has helped me along and if it wasn't for the people there the residents there I probably don't know where I'd be right now. I feel more adapted to where I live and correspondingly inspired Rosen will take an exotic piece of Malikai it render it with silver lover

and open it to contain Pilley holding a ruby to represent fire. Or you might make a daring necklace from the petrified tooth of a prehistoric great white shark. I don't like to do the usual with the piece and the first one I did with a tooth for a great white was for a lady that lives in Kona very exotic lady and it fits her well. You know she can wear skirts or people can wear these kind of things. And the other one is for a guy that lives and also lives in a corner that can wear anything and he has that air about it. You know it does take I couldn't wear anything like that. But other people do and I usually make something for the person that I see Rosens triptych. Not yet finished of Hawai'ian Madonna and Child features an oil painting by Mary KOSKY

based on actual residents of Waimea and Kohala. Hawaiians are the most beautiful people in the world. I'm convinced I'd rather paint Hawaiians than eat ice cream. After Lichtenstein and Finland Georgia and then Houston and then Hawaii but we had lived in Hawaii and 19 61 and my husband's been trying to get back ever since. He made a trip out here and when he came home he said you know there's another shopping center and five thousand more people and I said I can live with that one. When we came back to Hawaii things were so different than they'd been when we were here 20 years ago. It was such a different feeling. Such a Hawaiian feeling that had really been missing 20 years ago during her sojourn in Europe. Mary KOSKY was just me that the absence of portraits

couldn't make people because everyone was interested in still life and other things and people just weren't interested in pictures of people. And now that I've come to Hawaii everybody loves pictures of people and I'm having a wonderful time as is her daughter Cathy Long who drew these elegant portraits with pencil and paper. A This is a perfect place for me in the morning there. The mornings are clear and sunny and I like clear bright sunlight and the big news is the newest high and therefore it's got a lot of lava are here.

This is very primitive and very rough and I like that Keaton like Mary KOSKY has found that Hawai'ian subjects come first. I moved to the Big Island in 1981 and I stayed with a local family the royal family. Her oldest daughter was a healer and she allowed me to use several of her fellow members as models. So I took many of my first subjects from her to doesn't to any white sunny POLLI achieves her Misty ethereal effect with an airbrush. It's very difficult to manage one speck of dust can make you stop for an hour to have to clean your

materials again. I did away with the stencils and went freehand and it was as if I'm drawing with air to the lucky artist such as Sam Rosen. A change can occur after moving to the Big Island before I would just create according to the market. We're here I create according to the way I feel and the market comes to me. Artists who have moved to the big island usually had long experience shaping their methods before their arrival and their schedules. I put in a lot less time on something than people realize. It doesn't take me months to make a piece. It may only take me two or three days to do a piece but I work 15 or 16 hours a day on it. I generally work about 12 to 14 hours a day since I'm 20 miles half an hour from the nearest town. Then it's really easy for me to concentrate. You Englander Catherine Maril likes to create her ceramics in the historical setting of pool on Hulu. My Hawaiian neighbours go back before the time timer can

come to me first and actually it looks like New England it's all looks like New Hampshire all rolling hills horses cows. It's a bird sanctuary. Nany fly over all the time. Pheasants here yellow canaries just beautiful. Catherine mirro the niece of Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Mero was a potter in New York and Mendocino before engaging in dance and theater for years. The move to the Big Island brought her back to ceramics. The big island to me is one of the last few wild open free magical places left. I don't know if it's going to be that way much longer. The condos are going up. She saw its beauty as a visitor and now as a resident learning the difference between the two has been an education way to come as a visitor. Everything is beautiful everything is easy. The weather is lovely but when you start to live here

it's hard to find work. Things are expensive. There's a lot of complications and there's a lot of stress involved in actually living. I think on the big island after all Hawaii relationships are made and broken. It seems like a testing period almost like the volcano that you go through a testing period and either you survive or you don't survive. Yes it's to many people hike for different reasons. I get. Many benefits from hiking. I enjoy the outdoors. I live for the outdoors

just so story of my life. I was a small boy since the age of 14. Richard Davis has hiked thousands of miles in Canada Alaska and the continental United States from the time of his arrival in Hawaii in 1944. Davis has volunteered his skills to build and maintain numerous hiking trails now enjoyed by others. Sometimes no hikers asked me what they should bring on a hike but I can only tell them what I personally bring. And one of the most frequently asked questions is footwear. And surprising enough it's newcomers because I almost always want to come out with slippers or a very lightweight tennis show. And this is OK for someone who's experienced I'm very light on their feet a heavier person is better if they always carry weight heavier shoes. Personally I like real heavy shoes like this because I do a lot of cross country hiking and

I also do a lot of backpacking. This is another reason why I like to wear heavy shoes. Davis urges hikers to carry a first aid kit which would include tissues. Antiseptic creams. Headache pills mosquito repellent small fleshlight adhesive tape and even a notebook with a pencil. For two reasons one is to take notes of whoever you are hiking with a drive. Always know the name of his passengers and who to contact in case the passenger is injured. And if you are hiking alone any time you decide to go down to a gulch for water you can use a pencil. Write a note onto the pad stick the pad on to a bush then. If you cannot climb back up to the trail at least someone looking for you will know where you are along the same line. You should always let anybody know where you're going to go hiking and what time are

expected. Back in a. One should always bring water when hiking and lunch of course is necessary. I use it bank simply an hour for a sandwich. Maybe some gumdrops or something like that. And that's about all you need. Told me to be doing this for a day of hiking on the windward side of a walk. What are. You going to do. Today. Well I started building in of America. The entire trail is about three and a half miles along the street side trails down the pike. So people can go in and out of different places. You will be passing a waterfall about half an hour. If you want to take a quick go. Just. Like. It we're. Going to get. Some

of. The. Hub. Which is. The. Main. Route. Everybody ready to. See my dad. For. Me. Is. Know these things are edible. You have to be awfully hungry. Oh oh really. Usually they come in clusters and look at something like a pineapple. And they grow up in a tree like growing up. And we tell the tures see Pineapples do grow on trees like the leaves. All. Right. Do you have a half. No. Not yet. You know all those people are going by and they don't know what they're missing here

the driving back and forth all day and here we have a nice hike up a good view of here. You. Look up for the ridge up there you see I come through a spear made the poker and Poly this section of a trail. We now know we open it up to the upper end of it were wiped out by bulldozers and the footing for the new highway.

It'll pick up. Oh holy holy Kirylo appoint tenement without island alone. As you go further down you get a good view of the kind of Marine Corps station. How long have you been hiking all these fellows to hear. Dick's been hiking. Since 1940. Nine on the four in here in the island. And. To show you really approve how good hiking is for your health. This man has bounced a few times off the mountain and while doing the Appalachian Trail up in the mainland he had a heart attack. And look at him today for two. And he's still going at it.

Oh boy. I joined a hiking club after you did. It's a joy in your heart attack club. That's you it. I have just this little. Little hole here left just to get sympathy. Oh god no hugging. Just keep us going. I don't think I should tell them my age but how old are you. Sixty six. Well let's have a little respect. I'm 70. Not good. Seventy two. Oh my goodness. You notice all the rocks here set in place this little rag on the road and I put the rocks so that the wheels wouldn't slip too much growing up here. Rather unique getting a flat rock in place like this. And that musta been over 100 years ago and they're still there. I got to know what civilization I'm going to have to fight. OK. And I

bet you have a good swing down there. OK. Bye bye bye. Along the way. Selma was a volunteer at the Lyon arboretum pauses to enjoy plants in their natural setting. So this is a very rare flower plant and this is called were left here. And these are the Brack's And these are the little yellow flowers that come right along the side. I the common means to you I think we used to call this the accordion flower. It's just the spice like an accordion. There were.

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Want to see if we get our results together. At. OK. The. Second time. The Concorde string quartet visited what you the other day briefly. It's very fast. I mean we arrived last night and we played tomorrow night. And then the next night the next night. On to other islands. And then the next night we played in Boston. We'd been the artist in residence at Dartmouth College New Hampshire for about 10 years. The New York Times writes It would be hard to overpraise the Concord string

quartet performances. Everything was there tone balance technique a surging line flawless intonation. Surely this is one of the best American string quartet. Indeed it doesn't sound like there's an impulse in the bar but it dropped. It sounds so funny when we drop back a second B. I want to suggest that while we're all American train that makes a big difference. Three of us were trained. At Juilliard. With us. We all studied with the Juilliard Quartet all four different times. Just what difference does it make to be American trained in music today. First of all most of the great quartets are American Courtice not European. The far far more. Top quartets in America than there are in Europe.

Dr. Alan Trueba professor of music theory and composition at the University of Hawaii offers this view. The second world war drove an awful lot of musicians to the United States and we are reaping the benefit of the second generation already of their students. Perhaps Dr. Drew but he's also president of the Honolulu chamber music theory. Well he won a religion in music series has been in existence for about almost 30 years and. The organization was established at a time when there wasn't that much music and certainly not that much chamber music going on in Hawaii. And so the main purpose and the continuing purpose of the organization has been to bring outstanding groups to Hawaii. It. Was much better. I think it was funny. It seems that the foreign influence has been a healthy stimulus to American training. I think part of that is because the training in the United States has become so much more of a national joke doesn't 80 percent. Foreign students

school. This is common in the conservatories. And of that 80 percent the vast proportion are able. To. Do. This. Much better players of the Concorde stature could not be allowed to slip out of town without sharing the fruits of their experience with local novices. There is a whole chapter of the associated string teachers of America that sponsors workshops. Kathy Haffner is their president. For instance last year we sponsored down a. Darker a master class. This year we're planning to sponsor Jimmy Lynn in a master class. We also run the sewing ensemble competition for strings every year.

And. It's very easy to turn any aspect of our work with a piece into some kind of theory. Very easy too. I mean we're teachers and we have to constantly deal with. Explaining. Difficult concepts to somebody who may not have experienced it before we find ourselves getting caught up on our own words occasionally. John gets his foot pedal right there. I mean. The phrases seventy one to 70 for the I mean the thing is the music is written down on paper and basically it tells you only what the pitches are. A tiny bit about articulation and whether it's louder or softer. That's it that's the comparatively speaking very

crude information that we try to take just the last sentence that I said and modulated and write it all out on paper and exactly how each tone was inflected you know how we talk about the tone of voice for example. None of that is indicated in music. Having premiered more than 80 contemporary scores. The Concorde has become the target of aspiring composers. In our closet at home. I'm just going to guess but I'll bet we have between three and five hundred scores that have been sent to us on solicited. Rehearsal process by its nature is a very cohesive process. In other words. What you're seeing is a reaction to a performance that we did three or four days ago. And.

It has to be execute. Any idea has to have an execution of some kind. If you can communicate your idea without a discussion fine. But then it's a very direct kind of motion. Frankly there are too many variables and a great piece of music to deal with all our wants. It sounds like the BOEM BOEM BOEM BOEM which should be more rigid but it's something I can't figure out ways to make that will be because your life doesn't sound natural and it's absolutely square with all the great graces. We can practice something. I think a lot about music making is one she said a piece in motion. The balls are in the air and then it's a question of juggling. Come sit with me on my mind and as we watch the sunset

I'll sing you my song. So we agree to the deep blues. Do we all feel my. Regrets from. The mountain even down the mountain of me down the hall. And. Through the.

Spectrum was funded in part by grants from the people of Chevron in Hawaii and the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts.