Spectrum Hawaii; Piano/Ernest Change. Duke Kahanamoku; Furniture, Samoan Choir, Carlos Montoya, Computer Music, India Dance

The following program is a production of HGT 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. Hail to the conquering hero spectrum what he pays tribute to Olympic world champion swimmer and island surfer Duke honeymoon. But first. A hero of the keyboard. To his many faithful piano students. Ernest Chang is a paragon of poise discipline and discernment.

He teaches that happiness can be expressed. By. God. How. Are you today. Good. You look happy. How. Much. Did you have for lunch. All. Right. That sounds delicious. It seems sweet. Every day. But. What shall we. Go on first. You want to start with Bob. Bob. You said the Major Right. To deal with. Studying the piano.

You learn many many things about yourself about life. And. Gain many skills. That you can apply to other areas in your life. Like for example when you study the piano it takes a great deal of discipline. Takes a great deal of self-control. It's necessarily also a lonely type of a business because you spend many many hours practicing by yourself so you have to learn to live with yourself. Again. You have to achieve a bigger contrast. Between the loud part here and the soft part over here. OK. Just pretend there's a party going on next door and lots of people and they're having a lot of fun making a lot of noise. So when you open up your door you hear all of this noise there. OK. And when you close the door. Like on this part over here. It's very solemn. And then you open up a dog handler there. And then you have. To close the door. OK.

All right. Those who teach piano can find themselves absorbed in their work. Ernest Chang teaches piano in his studio and finds it fulfilling. Here we go. Here we go. It's not necessarily. Like. A. Piano Teacher is an occupation. Or it's a job you might say. It's. How I live. My everyday life. Every day of the year. Get a teacher's. Relationship. To his or her student. It's a very special one. A. Piano Teacher or a music teacher is more of a one on one type of situation. And. This relationship is sort of a long term relationship. Lasted for five. To 10 or even more years.

So. As a piano teacher you become not only a source of information and inspiration authority but you become also a friend or even a part of the family. Jennings studied piano at the Juilliard School in New York. For five years. His teacher was Madame. Marquez who's taught a number of pianos now playing on the concert stage. As distinguished a person as she was that's that's a great reputation and in such demand from people who are clamoring to study with her. She was. Very very devoted and dedicated to all of her students. She gave Chang a special gift of appreciation. I always felt that whenever I learned to play a piece that she

taught me that I could play it better than anyone else. Now Chang shares this gift with his own students here in Hawaii. Q. There are several schools of thought about how to teach piano. Like. The old European school. With a very prescribed curriculum and very set grade levels and examinations after each. Grade level. Very rigid very rigid sort of course of study. But Chang disagreed. I tried to hear the course of study.

And the individuality of the student rather than try to mold the student to the course of study. From a vast selection of music he would choose specific pieces to achieve certain learning skills. For example. If you want to develop their strength and their sound you might give them something that's hard or heavy like a holiday. Or if you want it to develop expressiveness then you will give them a lot. Or if you want to develop a certain kind of finger technique well then maybe a classical Sonata. The. Mechanical aspect of playing your stress. Fingering peddling the use of the entire body is not ignored. But the soul of the written score comes to life from the pianists own expressiveness.

Don't be so calculated on this part. Try to make it sound a little bit more like a waterfall. They. Found this. They started slow and then just rush up toward the top. OK. It. Was.

Fine. Nice lyrical feeling on this piece. Now. What type of emotion are you trying to express. Are you trying to express sadness. Are you trying to express the feeling of happiness. Patriotism and even when you're talking about happiness. What type of happiness are you trying to express. Many students like Judy are learning for their own enjoyment. Others like 5 year

old Nikki and 8 year old Sean are learning is a part of growing up. Those like Susan's strive for a possible career as a concert pianist. As a child of seven in Korea. Akiko Takahashi decided to be a concert pianist but she and her family moved to Hawaii several years later. She began her studies with Ernest Chang. She remembers the choices she had to make as an aspiring musician. I didn't have time to do a whole lot of frivolous play when everybody was out there you know playing tennis or something. I was I had to practice. So. In one sense it gave me a very serious look. As to what life is all about. You became focused all of a sudden you know it's like from the day of age 7. This is what you were going to be. And I never thought about anything else.

For personal reasons. She relinquished her dreams of mine. Now the director of training at a Waikiki hotel she interviewed for years of piano study the development of skills she uses in her prison career. When I'm doing training or not giving a speech I think about the time that I had to get on that stage and perform for that city or something and I said you know if you could do the Rhapsody in Blue you could certainly go out there and speak for 15 minutes. And got this at their age. That's creativity. It provides intensity to you when you play music it's a feeling and concern over time with the intensity to express things. And when you do that with music you tend to do that with your life. And I think that's very important.

Here. Are. You better known as the do is still regarded today as one of the world's greatest aquatic sportsmen of all time. Participant in five Olympic games dating back to his gold medal performance in the 1912 competition in Stockholm Sweden this quiet mannered muscular away in beach boy from Waikiki captured the hearts and respect of countless generations of admirers from around the globe. The Duke taught us all the meaning of brotherhood. And love. Two. Of the many fans from around the globe no stronger group exists and those who have

grown up in Duke's own backyard here in Hawaii. Could. Come out to why. Why you. Gonna walk the walk. My neighbor. Will live. About approximately. This. All in swamps with. A series of trees planted recently

that area was scheduled to be the day. Supposed to be commercial. That location of. Corn Culley. And the cold call having there was a street car that turns right smack at the corner. I. Live. About two blocks away from the mall. He was living on the power or property. With do are related. To smoke and. Was very. Humble Person. Very. Well I would call it first class. Growing up with them is for the whole family never took advantage of me.

I never have. I'm 76 today. Proud of it because we typically. Gave up a beautiful Paris mother and father. And my mother came from. A. Boy who. Was a daughter he said. My father came from. I think was Maui Hawaii. And. They were great parents. So they had 14 kids from the 40s. And he knew six boys and three girls and some died before brother took him. So once I lived to my laptop or do they read. Any bill like this have you keep your money or I was myself. My brother lives over in Korea. This is a big deal. But when I grew up. Yes my brother was whole as a whole. I had. Always looked up to. I came over here in December 1938.

I didn't make do until about a month or so afterwards I was introduced to him by his brother Sam. But I wanted to me too because I had read about him when I was a little girl in school. One day I read about him in a movie magazine where he had been discovered by Douglas Fairbanks I married him. When I heard the name Duke Moe called because I couldn't pronounce it and I had no idea how to pronounce it. I said that's the man I want to meet. Well I think I met all of his five brothers first. And little by little I met Duke. And they both love at first sight for Duke which was very lucky for me. There was one experience. We. Boarded from here to MORNING overnight and morning. Morning. The. Big. Challenge is Harchand I. Suppose in one of the roughest shows in

the world. That's. When it's so bad. For us. I mean we're hanging on trying to stay in the boat. You. Can because we're so raw. And dupers just standing there like. Crazy. And it turns out our boys do you know. I told them that was bad. But. When. I go in to see the end of. It. It was a scary experience but this is. The. Face. Of. Wrath risk. Contacted me here in Hawaii and said that he was going to do to appear. This is your life. But I have to be very secretive. Nobody was supposed to know. Only the people

concerned. And that had to keep that dark dark secret he asked all the rest of his family. They were all living then nineteen fifty seven. So we all kept silent. Then we went over to the mainland separately. So that nobody would suspect that he would do especially when the suspect anything you know you got him over there supposedly on a business trip. And Ralph called him and said I'd like to have you come on the stage to see this set that we have of a Hawaiian village and see if you approve of it. That was the way he lured him onto the stage. I decided to get out of it. OK. So you know so Duke goes on and looks at this

Hawaiian Village and said Well it looks all right what ever. And then Ralph pounced on them and handed them the book and said do this is your life. Olympic swimmer and Sheriff I want all of you to night. This is your life. Tell the story ladies and gentlemen a little Hawaiian boy. Who became the most famous swimmer in the world or dissipated in five Olympic Games he was this great speed and power in almost the wrong way. So one day he was on the beach. Some people say the screws are going up. I'm going fishing. I don't know whether you remember this. But he. Is going to be. Standing up there. These people that. He was with because. He's. Kind of worried about what he was up to. Never said a word. But he had the feeling that that boat was going to capsized. Because there wasn't a wrong way to

close it within the reef and way. Sure enough. There you go. What does he do. It takes up water bottles out. He brings one in the brig two with the big three. When I got the fourth and the fourth It was all tangled up in the that. Is what I saw. And he could couldn't get that guy. He was so mad he was sad about it but he got the save separate lives six. Times. And that's one thing about my brother which I always love never will feel good because. He was a great man. He had never sat around with the reporters. He just went to sleep. So we will let somebody else tell you all about this. The people report. Happened to be. It's like that I if you try to do what's right for the people he loves. People. Want to thank you. For the. Rest. Will. Be saving my life. Well I don't think anybody can measure up

to Duke's personality. He had a tremendous personality and a tremendous warmth and always meeting people and giving the regular little spirit and that in my estimation is the not only as a swimmer but on account of his personality that made him so famous. Do we have a done to you that your brothers and sisters live there all alone. They are. Very happy. Thank you Poppy. This is David. Right. Here right here.

And here is. A. Lovely wife not me. But his favorite me I'm number one. Favorite food. Was poi a big bowl. And I can always found a. Chill. Up in the can. And get a quart of the onion and the big bowl and that was his favorite meal. Period. His second favorite was Argentine canned corn beef fried onions and again a great big bowl of pool. Well when I say a big bowl like a big bowl like that. And those are his two favorites. But I started out with French cooking and trying to have all these different sauces and the very love the baby was the ketchup.

He always called me baby. It's the catch. And I said you can't put ketchup on that. That thought when they saw sources on Bernays wonder why I like them. Finally got to the point they said. Big tough cookie playing everything do did athletically was championship performance of. His surfing ability. He was way beyond his time. Some of the things he did with. The surfboard were. Profound in their day. Considering also when Duke was surfing as a young man. They're only a part of this century was surfing on surfboards that were 15 or 16 feet long and weighed 120 130 pounds. I venture to say that many kids nowadays couldn't even carry Duke's board to the water much more surfing. Way. Way. Way. Way way. Way. Up. The way if. Small. Go forward. Go way back go

back. Go back. To the right position. And they're hoping. To. Up. Go. Go. Further. There. Was so humble that you breathe on me to be humble and be kind. Also he was a man of tremendous stature but very humble and down to you was a real real quality. But among the Hawaiians it was a quality of unusual strength. The only man who could have defeated you your former opponent and now close. Friend. That. You. Recognize him out of the jungle gym. It

didn't actually help you to beat him didn't he. Johnny Yes he did. You know we trained together in the Olympic games yeah. This big leg you just give me all the confidence in the world. Really. Contemporary people especially contemporary young people realize. This name they hear do Kahana mokel was a real man and he was a man. That. Gained. His respect in his honor in our society. Through just being a good man. Not. Not through being a capitalist or being a big business man or being good being that talented. Devoted. Wonderful man. He was my estimation. The embodiment of a lot and he always. Was the type of person. Who might have felt. Good. How do your feelings about a subject or someone. But he never. He. Never let you know about it. The guy always had a smile on his face and always a good word. For anybody who met him.

And. He was not caught up in the modern day to day rat race that seems to consume. So many people nowadays. He had as I said earlier a great sense of value. In life. He value those things that money can either buy or destroy it to a certain extent the value of human relationships. He valued his relationship with the ocean and. With his lifestyle with his ability to play in the ocean. These attributes I think are. Very special. To. Me.

Spectrum was funded in part by grants from the people of Chevron in Hawaii and the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts. The following program is a production of HGT in Honolulu Hawaii

Public Television the following program has been funded in part by grants from the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts and the people at Chevron in Hawaii. Virtuoso Carlos Montoya spectrum who a glimpse of his rarefied technique on the guitar. Simone choir brings the winds of the South Pacific into their Him as. A synthesizer fulfills its potential. While an itinerant Hindu dance troupe displays timeless Folkways is. The first spectrum who looks at contemporary

furniture design. An elegant arrangement. Metre design is a firm that makes furniture out of ideas. Like architects. The meter Hill firm works from small models to test the appearance of their design. So the idea is that that will last for generations and generations that way unseen but struggle. With a lot of integrity. It's sort of like. Old Ming Chinese Ming's style furniture. A lot of the integrity of the piece of furniture will never be viewed will never be seen by the owner or anyone else. Peter Hill design principles Steve. Peter and Steve will gather here in the austere elegance of their office to sound out possibilities and requirements. Licentiate is heard more. Than. Ours. Can. I think. Otherwise.

We do harken back to traditional styles and techniques when it seems appropriate for us to reflect the time that we live in and that's I think that's apparent in the not only the style the lightness of the. Work that we do but also the variety of materials metals plastics stone. Wood. Paint metre Hill design likes to work to a swinging rhythm. From the drawing board to the workshop. Here's what they listen to. Forget your troubles and just get happy. You better. There's a way out and now look here. Come on get happy. Get ready for that judgment day. Instruments of torture a length of bored might answer in the affirmative but its pains are eased by the age of steam. Steam bending enables us to get curves that we wouldn't ordinarily be able to get. A black kettle boils over an open flame pumping a steam bath into a narrow

shed. This thing is the vehicle for the heat. The steam bending of solid wood was practiced by the ancient Egyptian. If it's not done properly the inside of the curve would crush on the outside of the curve and tear apart. With moist teeth rather than splitting or collapsing the solid board bends without Scott a curve produced under stress becomes fashionable furniture upon which they take their ease. This is steam bent rosewood. Wood expands while absorbing moisture from what is humidity but contracts

when it enters a dry area. Meteor Hill design includes this principle in their final plan. A lot of times when we design something. By the time we have a design you thought the whole process through so much that actually building it is actually kind of anti-climactic. Steve Hill likes to think. Yet he and Steve needer both know what's required. Once the idea is in place. It's up to us to can get him excited about 700 pounds of East Indian granite gives this table and importance which hints that momentous decisions are made here. I guess it was. Kind of an architectural. Team and we wanted to capture there. But we wanted to do something with the curves just to give it a little more just. A weighty table like this must be staunchly supported. Extensions are like pillars supporting a winged roof on an old street in

Kyoto. Yet this long table of decision may be disassembled for independent study and smaller meetings a design solution permits the portions of the table to be moved easily on self lubricating runners. That job went through a lot of different drives. It's hard to get all the people involved in green designs especially if there are so many different people in so many different things. What is a problem to a designer. Sometimes when. You have constrictions it limits the possibilities you can use and actually makes the job easier. And that's that's gratifying in a way when you realize that you've got a solution that fits within all the constraints. The near is half the beauty of a meter.

Hill work the world grain of this mahogany suggests a topographical map of the moon or sub-Saharan Africa. In its raw state. The deer may occasionally resemble elephant hide or tiger stripes under a glossy finish. That was an intensely. Curly. Color that we found and we were able to get enough of it to be able to do his whole office. And it was dazzling just dazzling wood.

Solid wood imposes design restrictions that these limits to the imagination expand when a designer may contemplate hollowbody furniture Holovaty is a relatively new process in furniture building. I think that its origins are pretty much from the technology that comes from airplane wings. It can get bent forms that way we can get thicker very thick looking solid looking forms that are actually very light and strong like fresh cream. Blue is generously distributed to fatten the body of a piece composed of plywood layers. This process is called lamination. Clamped under pressure for a week out of many boards comes one one which may now except the elaborate skin of veneer. That's a curly maple veneer. With a salmon tent in Alaska and it's laid over this hollow grid pattern. It won't expand if it were a solid piece of wood it would just destroy itself and be. Probably 3000

pounds itself. These design partners met when they attended the school for American craftsman at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Before their training in fine arts. Steve Mitter thought he would be a sculptor. Well Steve Hill enjoyed applause in his educational pursuits as I moved into our house so I ran into the dilemma thinking why it's going to be kind of hard to make a living doing. Art for art's sake. And. Dropped out of school and became a carpenter and that's when I got introduced. Pleasures and working with. Steve Meader originally of Philadelphia was exposed early to the great traditions of furniture design. Have a way to endow pieces. Up in Philadelphia and they would. Even sort of consider them as water man made. They would look. Like they must have always been around they were so beautiful.

They have studied design as part of a Bachelor of Fine Arts program. So their vocabulary is much broader than most people who make furniture here in Hawaii art consultant Janice bewray specializes in placing commissioned fine artwork in her client's offices. She has recently discovered meteor Hill design making design the very traditional things that you would see in a grandmother's house or perhaps an old home ina cooperation and yet they also make things that you would expect to see in the Museum of Modern Art artist made furniture exhibition. These days. So. It's like being in a candy store. There's everything in between. And they do it all so well. Together. They now give Honolulu a leading source for original furniture that endures. It's too hot. Too hot. I ride. With my baby tonight.

With my baby tonight. I like my baby my baby. There is a song in here. It is always heard on Saturdays but sometimes during weekday rehearsals. My. Saturday is the day of worship at the Samoan Tokelau Seventh Day Adventist Church in Cali. I came. Back.

That was when I grew up. I didn't go back home some more. I singing. I sang in small groups choirs. Nuku Tevita is there choirmaster. Before I present a song. To the choir. I picture the whole thing in my mind. Picture the choir and myself in the melody that comes out the endings you know the beginnings. The piano is. Everything. Before I proceed to teach a song. And. It's like a dream. At the end of this song.

To. Sing. Or. To. Try the try I had insects. They went to the space. Stations most of them musicians like to listen for you know. The. Boys. No they not. Some of them don't read music at all. Nuku leads her choir from gospel music into Mozart's glory. And. Praise the Lord. You know that they perform and they making such a performance. During a rehearsal soundcheck at Blairsville concert hall guitar virtuoso

Carlos Montoya prepares for a rare appearance by displaying the fiery talent and agility that has gained him worldwide respect and admiration. Do. You. You. Can. Do. This.

To. The music department head the University of Hawaii Manoa campus now provides students with a modern teaching aid the computer. My background in music here at university is focuses on composition and theory. But my main. Interest has been electronic music with an emphasis on computer music. Using computer technology to create and help. Exploit and exploit all kinds of sounds.

So we have a set up here that's. Modest in price but still has some flexibility. All for practical applications in the world at large. And this gives us a fair amount of flexibility in creating sounds without having an enormous budget problem here in our electronic studio. We can see some of this computer music in action. The first piece of equipment that we should look at is the one that really governs and can control the others. The synthesizer keyboard. This is a DX 7 and it has a particularly varied assortment of sounds that it can produce. We have 32 instruments available at any one time in each of these can be changed. Let's hear some of these sounds. First I noticed this the sound of the harpsichord. But at the same time I have just flicking a button I have a new sound. The sound of strings or perhaps a trumpet.

And now all of these instruments are available to us through the DX 7 but we can really use the DX 7 to do more than play those sounds we can use it to control the other kinds of equipment that we have here. This is a sequencer and the secrets are literally records music but in a certain way that's special for the computer music. It accepts directions from the DX 7 and then those directions can be used to play the DX seven years in the computer disk as a storehouse for that information. The thing that I would like to see the students come away with is it runs a range from first hand appreciation and insight and practice tolerance for what electronic and computer music can do in the music realm. They're involved in. An

computers are also used to reinforce music skills learned in the classroom. A lot of people of course feel that computers are no substitute for the human teacher of course I have to agree with that. We by no means contend that these so-called teaching machines are a substitute for real live interaction in a traditional teaching scenario. However quite often the teacher's role is somewhat burdened. By a lot of redundant. Question and answer sessions repetition of basic facts. And we feel that by allowing for the use of the computers as an adjunct to the teaching arena that this will free the teacher and allow the instructor to involve

to engage in more meaningful activities. Actually what it allows for is the teacher to spend more time with the students. By sending the students to the computer terminal and allows the instructor to deal with these individuals on a more humane home. This is the future of computers as I see it not as a substitute but as an accessory as a viable body that the student can help. But. What I do I viewed myself as a very technical

consultant who can help the artists sound even better. For example if someone has a specific sound in mind I can help him design that song. Basically I start off with an Apple Macintosh computer which serves as the control center for all the different types of instruments that I have in my system including an emulator or two which is a sampling keyboard which is not unlike a tape recorder and you can play things. And then we have. A DX 7 synthesizer which is an FM bass synthesizer it's one of those State of the art instruments and it sounds something like this. And I also have. A grand piano in a box. And songs like this. And here is my venerable syndrome which is the first affordable sample drum machine and you can just.

Say I can play. A sequence of notes with the computer by first of all starting up. This program for the Macintosh which is called Total Music. And it's a combination of a or a record package which will be able to record all the digital control information that I input from the system and then play it back. Sampling is a process of digitally recording an analog sound from the real world and putting it into say a sample of keyboards such as the emulator. And manipulating it electronically or digitally and then playing it back. Children from kindergarten through fourth grade were treated to a rare spectacle that

Buddha doing recently. Recently. They witnessed the music and dance of Rajasthan India. Well classical Indian music is commonly heard in the United States. A genuine folk art traditions of the world's second most populous country are not local events. Sir Andrew was instrumental in arranging for the performance of these itinerant dancers and musicians. This was a new experience for me too because I've seen some Indian folk dancing before and even Rajasthani folk dancing but this kind of thing that it's called is quite unusual. Had never seen it before and we were offered this too as part of the celebration of the. 18 month Festival of India here in America. It's different because the

the dancers are women and the dancing is also performed sitting down. It's the first time I've seen dancing like this where the women. The choreography is all done from the waist up. It reminds me of the Hula that is done in a city by city. It's very colourful Rajasthan is a wonderful state. A lot of it is desert and I have read somewhere that the reason that the people there wear such colorful costumes is to offset the dryness and the dullness and. And the greatness of the dancers and the people. Driving around that Rajahs time you see the women not only in colorful costumes.

At festivals and all but in their everyday life. So they they're very colorful. Yes. We've. Had very good reaction because it's something that you know people have not seen before. And it's noisy and colorful and full of fun. The folk troops manager is pushdowns thought we are from India in the western part of India as all the stuff from the wedding they had a good they are not really playing these types of. These type of songs and launches into their lives and their students. In these cycles of songs and rap to the rhythm is a key difference between the

Oriental and accidental death be observed traditionally dances of the oxidant focus chiefly on footwork as dancers of the audience make much greater use of the head neck and hands. The music and songs are meant to illustrate episodes in the life of the Hindu god Krishna. Is. This. This

is. You. One. To. Two. Weeks. Spectrum was funded in part by grants from the people of Chevron in Hawaii and the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts.