Spectrum Hawaii; Hanalei Slipper Man, Bamboo Ridge, Jazz Preservation Society.; Kailua Madrigals Alumni, Queen Liliuokalani Gardens, The Hawaii Theater, University Lab Art

The following program is a production of key HEG in what I will do hopefully 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 are Chevron in Hawaii. Oh. Ed thank you. Spectrum What visits the editors of a local literary journal then watches a poem come to life. The American Heritage of jazz is being preserved in a way today and so are the recipe created by the oldest man in Hama lay Valley how white it is today in the huddle a valley on the north shore of the

valleys oldest resident in need she just sucked on his way to gether bull rush reads for his slippers. They're growing my plants and then he would go crazy. But where does that fit. Yeah once in a while the song one of those. And that's why does that matter. But I have somewhere up you know reading here that you know what I'm going to make because the brick that the different he brings his bundles home and pounds the fresh reads crushing the strong fiber

as a child can eat you to suck I would watch his father make bull rush slippers. But it wasn't until much later when he made his first pair. After I retired I was working for the county for 39 years. I used to grow family but I never had nor intend to live from my farm. I never learned so I had a hard time that I was going to lose sources good ideas. I spoke from a thick trio not long my life is not too long and I am now 90 years old so I think kind of a little too late but I have my hobby. So how good do you have to

hold it. I got this thing out of eyes muesli bought the dishware and I have to sit around and then I come this way again. Be sure the easiest I do not come back this way again and then. But when you really tried to get this but I was even on the right if you want to be big and smart according to this that I always try. Before I used to waste my Mason I used to measure time. I got the mission and now I don't have because I don't have to because I'm pretty used to the four years that they died today. His slippers are sold in a local art gallery

once commonplace in Japan. The slippers are now hard to find as machine made products replace handcrafted shoes. Three years ago and my wife and I went to Japan and that depended on to have this kind of story but no. And we read through the whole parenting or Sokka and really didn't know it at the rooms but not supposed to go down the levee. So we had these two packets you know two or three parts one for my wife and myself. Then we walk around in that lobby and around the store get people to read it and people are down there before us. You say we've gone from I don't know we came from Hawaii and we we bring from home I didn't believe it. You didn't believe it but now they don't make good because as President we're generation all died and now all of

that new generation devil four out slippers almost an off duty officer to Saka on the chords to close the top of the shoe. Then he attaches the song happy the soul had once worn it every day now considered folk art slippers that can teach you to suck up to why I like the man himself. Simple. Strong. The bamboo Ridge press is a whole literary quarterly publishes local poems plays and short stories. It is edited by Eric chalk. Ridge is

that's quite unique I think I mean actually there are other journals in the country that publishes American literature but most of them are struggling I would say and I don't come up very regularly. We come out four times a year. We've been doing it since 1978 and we get grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Coordinating Council of the very magazines in New York and from this day foundation and Darrow. And eight years we must have published about two hundred fifty different authors. People think of him as probably the foremost writer of pigeon literature in a way today. A writer of fiction and drama and he's an editor for bamboo Ridge has written essays on what local literature is yours given readings college classes not only here but also on the mainland he has his books and his diaries taught in literature classes.

He said you know a well-rounded person of a lot of different things want to marry one of those things is acting as his academic counselor or the special student services division of the University of Hawaii kind of sentimental you know. Do you remember any unusual questions here. The advice is a Vietnamese pre-med student who's been invited to attend interviews at several medical schools don't try to second guess them. You know I don't try to be some kind of wishy washy that the guy won't know what your opinion here. You know if you ask you something just answer you know whether the magazine started out because Eric and I know a whole bunch of writers while we were in school. It seems like after we got out of school you know write anymore or if they did write they were getting rejected a lot by mail and magazines which didn't mean that it wasn't good work. But

somehow a lot of the work wasn't appreciated. That's a point I know you can hear yes. Yeah. So explain why. Thank god my grades were so hoarse I don't think anybody will look at it and feel like they got worse. We're trying to advocate a literature which more people will have access to which more people want to read and enjoy and not so much the kind of what you might call an ivory tower literature or the kind of esoteric poetry that nobody wants to read because it's so obtuse and nobody understands what it's about you know. So that's one of the main in doing that we're following and doing the roots and promoting the idea of vocal literature itself. One of their own limbs recently

entitled My home is down the street concerns an elderly Chinese man resisting a transfer to an old folks home. A lot of people responded to it because it seemed to have struck a nerve in terms of I guess it's more common a situation than I would. I realize some of them said that it was difficult to watch because they saw their own family situation in the play the play isn't really about a 78 year old Chinese man. It's about us. A friend of ours named the magazine because he had just learned how to go fishing at Nambour Ridge bamboo Ridge was once a popular fishing Lookout North East of Hama Bay on Oahu. He told us about this way of

fishing that people won't do it anymore and I still write for the magazine. Seventy five percent of Hawaii's population find their ethnic roots in Polynesia or in the Orient. The writing of the member Ridge Journal reflects these roots. A lot of it happens to be based in Hawaii and is about us. It's about the kind of people that live here including people who shaped their lives by ideals. What I'm doing with my whole life I think is fairly idealistic young trying to live the life of a poet and generally speaking it means that in order to make a living you have to do something else. I think Eric's Parcheesi is probably some of the finest pieces of writing I've seen period. His work tends

to be have specific images and detail is almost deceptively simple. It always tells something of a of a story. You don't generally get paid for writing poems. I get paid for teaching other people to write poems in the ports in the schools program reading poems to them. And inspiring people to understand and appreciate poetry. His voice is I think we're confident we'll we're sure you know that this writer knows what he's talking about. And I like that in this world. One of Eric Chuck's most popular poems is about the death of his Uncle Bill. Let's go to appeal after the fish because you get the idea that in this particular poem that it was his uncle who taught him how to fish was his uncle who taught him a lot of things. But

then as well as being sort of a remembrance of of the I'll call it. Oh I don't know what you want to call it. I guess a poem about the rites of passage of becoming a man and learning about death row. Appeal this one's for you Uncle Bill. I didn't want to club the life from its blue and silver skin so I killed it by holding it upside down by the tail and singing into the thing so it squeaked there three times in a small dying chickens voice and became a stiff cur like a

wind that had frozen before the break into foam. You know the tidal pool where youth and I held the fish and laugh thinking how you called me handsome at 13. I slashed the belly pulled guts and a red flower bloomed and disappeared with a whip like the last breath your body heat on a smuggled lucky strike in a hospital bed. You wanted your ashes out at sea but Auntie kept half on the Hill. She can't be swimming the waves at her and she wants you

still. The songs that jazz portrayed today have resulted from years of improvisation by the masters of music combinations of different styles of music such as classical rock you have Procul the swing and many others and given the world the fusion of the forms they continue to advance our definitions of the word jazz. What you got was a direct reflection of the history and the growth of jazz in America.

Jazz could be defined as experimental attempts to reach a level where the audio perception clarity and excitement of jazz vocalist and I believe began her singing career at an early age. I started singing when I was seven eight. I hit the stage when I was about 12 and I haven't really stopped. I really enjoy singing I I I loved it so much that I just did everything and anything that I could after I got out of high school I

got on a plane went to San Francisco did a lot of well we're not there musically. I went to L.A. college and I took some classes and I got to play with a lot of different people mostly jazz influence when I first got there and then a little more. John can you play with a nine piece band. And then on the other side of the coin I just did a little piano player myself came back to Hawaii and got involved with the pop influenced top 40 dance music and that was pretty hot for me and I'm still involved with that except now kind of running in the background is the jazz influence that I've always had from when my mother used to listen to all those old records and I used to sing along and it's really coming together now because I can

use the jazz in a poplin influence together because it seems like a lot of people out there are doing the same thing you know they're taking a little bit of this little bit of that putting it together and calling it their own so that's basically right all came from spirits here in Hawaii the energy from the Bay Area coming back home is a good idea. Jazz on the way over the last few years the white press corps growth started that sort of ties right in with the national market. We're seeing an upsurge in jazz principally because of the I guess what we call the baby boom generation it's you know it's an overused word getting a little tired but it's very appropriate as a people born between 1946 and 19. 64. And that group of people. Oddly enough is appreciating some of the old jazz some of the old bebop much more so than some of the folks that were around during the swing era. This is reflected in the

increase in sales of the sort of music. Also we're seeing this tremendous upsurge of new crossover jazz. Where they take the standard jazz improvisation solos techniques and you put it with a solid rock foundation sort of what's found in Rock and Roll and you bring it up and you know you have a new kind of music a new sort of virtuosity. It really does work. You need a frank Leto and his group become to add a new dimension to the way in American jazz. I think that jazz music. Is a type of music that's continually changing. It started off. AS. Kind of a means for musicians to express themselves.

And from that. I think that the musicians are always looking for another news to express themselves. A lot of times when we think of jazz we think of for for a time a swing rhythm though I think that these musicians were looking for other types of rhythms to express themselves on. It. Yes. Very special group of people. The mirrors the melting pot the multipart of the Pacific as it were called and I think it mirrors what the Jazzercise is all about we've got people from all different ethnic controlled cultural backgrounds of all types of

musical tastes. You know we cross from classical people to folks who are into Bruce Springsteen and we find a medium ground for them and we find that they're very supportive of music that they they're very hungry for the music. The little boy musician gave both Azhar has often been referred to as the godfather of jazz in Hawaii. Well I really that's quite an honor to be called the godfather of jazz but there were quite a lot of fine people in Hawaii that were instrumental in jazz you know it's such a strong young lived in

Hawaii for many years delayed Ernie Washington the late Ethel ZAMA. And well yours truly helped I think helped in the survival of jazz so to speak in Hawaii and kind of keep the flame burning in that Hawaii is the moment I mixed cultures also on that you have many people from the Europe European area and many people from the Asian countries all in one area called Hawaii. And and there's a lot of mixed status and lots of taste and very very Asians of music and jazz is also a very important part of the Hawaiian way of life. The way in which award winning graphic artist and photographer Ron Hudson captures magic moments in a performance are not left to chance. I mean for me you were photographed. Musician's. Annoying almost in anticipation of what they were going to do by virtue of having

some musical background worth. Studying percussion for about eight years. I could hear it coming so I knew where the crescendos and decreased end of the soft spots the hard spots were going to be so I could catch them doing what they do best. That high note. The music coming to me. In what I do. As a graphic designer for products for kids. It's all spontaneous. A lot of the work that I do is NOT spend and he's quite rigid. So. I like this part in a jazz. And I think that's. Probably what keeps me. Listening. But I feel like things are happening that. The people in our country are realizing that jazz is ours. And that. The fact that it is appreciated so widely everywhere else is coming back. And even the government of the United States has gotten me in to the act in the last five to 10 years

realizing that jazz as a universal musical language. As a composer. Arranger type. And not necessarily. A front person. I call it definitely can I to get my message across if I have one in a song or something like that and I'm not going to get up there and sing look good like she can. And she needs me to work out the arrangements and to help her write songs. I think. It's definitely a two way street. We we both need each other to survive in this place especially in Hawaii. A few job away legacy it's gone up and down but I think it's on his

position as we just said a couple more things we're. Looking also into radio stations there would be more jazz clubs and especially the fairing pool coming in because first the. Wife. Has. The stomach a little small but eventually looking forward to making it a big thing because the people in Hawaii really gaining many population people from all over the world even Hoya now and they have a very large mixture of taste and jazz is one of the biggest questions. Where's the jazz. That's where the Jazz. Yes.

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Hawaii and the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts. The following program is a production of key HPT in one of the low hopefully

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 of Chevron in Hawaii are. Spectrum What you find is that a little of the old song and dance holds together the alumni family of the Kailua Madrigal singers. A timeless waterfall cascade through clean little Kalani guard. An old graceful theater looks for a second chance and the University of Hawaii Lab School demonstrates why its program for art and education as one award.

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Recently the National Alliance for arts education singled out the university laboratory school in Honolulu to lower its commitment to music and visual arts education. Traditionally Clark has just looked upon as a sort of surreal soft peripheral type of course. As an artist and as an artist to cater. I don't see it as that so at this school. Art has become. A required course such as English and science and math. And students taken from third grade all the way through to the plus grade. They have no choice about it. However it is possible for a public high school student to complete four years of education without taking one music or visual arts course. There's the emphasis Currently listening to. So-called basics math science and English and so on. And what that does to this process such as art music drama suffer for that. And I think in the long haul students will suffer for it. This arts program can exist as an ideal an aspiration because of the

school itself. University lab school is not a public school. Instead it is exactly what its name indicates operated by the University of Boys College of Education. The school serves as a living laboratory for curriculum research and develop. Its arts program makes several contributions. One of the objectives. I had an exemplary school for. Our. Program. Exemplary in the sense that it it should be a kind of a model that public school teachers might come to to look at them too. If they can. Emulate some aspects of it. I certainly get some ideas from it. The staff also offer summer workshops for teachers who wish to learn more about teaching art regardless of their own proficiency. And they write and conduct research. Teacher Val crunching has written the core curriculum guide for the Department of Education for art education from kindergarten. Through 12th grade. This guide provides a sequential

approach to the subject. Yeah yeah. The teachers here are actually university professors associates and lecturers in the College of Education. They're also artists and all believe in the value of art education in our schools which get a lot of basic skills in fiber and sculpture and drawing painting ceramics. Oh. We don't teach dogma. We don't say it. This is for ever and this is a fact. Well boy. It probably isn't as structured ASIS science class would be. One presents one themselves with a problem. And. Seeks a way to communicate whatever idea or phenomenon that they've found. And I think the process is very similar. You have basically your exploration the new skill development in art you go one step further then compared to many other subjects. You have the

individual interpretation and that's what I think is very important for a child to learn that he is unique. Also art education fosters divergent thinking as opposed to convergent thinking. So every answer is different. In our class. It's a matter of sitting down and. Using your imagination. Expressing yourself reaching down into yourself and so reaching down into a book to find information and I see you develop the necessary part of the mind the soul you want. And. It cannot be separated out and sorted out and left out of education. And art can also be just plain fun.

Part of the success of the university lab school's art program is because your Budda doorway and crunchy. I recognized artists and can empathize with their students. As a practicing artist I know how important it is for me to be allowed to grow at my own pace to seek out my own ideas to express myself the way I want to do it. If I were not a practicing artist I might not realize how important this is and I might begin to infringe on the rights of the student. Both to offer. An open. Experience. Right. The students also benefit because I'm a practising artist because all of

the things that I'm doing at home exploring in my studio I might bring into the classroom and share with them or I might have a portfolio of my work and say this is one of the techniques that I tried a long time ago maybe in your kind of assignment that you want to do. You might try that out too. I'm not say at all copy it it's just another exposure to another idea. I personally as an artist. Need. Stimulus for my classroom I need to have that contact with people. So I can do my work. And the kids. Keep bringing in new ideas I think I'm very much connected to pop culture. And. They're the ones who the market is Toby targeted for. So I developed my work from a lot of conversations that may have been. At the end of our session he said.

Really I'm exhausted but at the same time I'm highly stimulated. I think the biggest challenge is. Occasionally you have a student that will come into class from the say. Why should I take your class. The only class that are important to me and they've been conditioned from mom and dad is. Science Math and English and I try to relate to the way they live and I would started out by asking a series of questions the first one being well. When you go to a record store. Are all the record albums white with just the name of the band and the songs on it. I mean what you walking into is an art gallery really. Or if you're fascinated with cars cars are like moving pieces of sculpture. So I think you know it becomes a bit more relevant by approaching it from that point of view. The closest analogy I might draw would be. A part of a face.

It's difficult for me to say that my eyes are more important than my nose or that my nose is more important my mouth or my ears are more important than my cheeks and so on. And I see art or music or drama or that sort of thing in a similar vein. If you remove it from a program it's like removing For example your nose from your face. It's not peripheral. It's part of the whole. You can't cut it up and remove parts of it. And as I said I think the students ultimately. Will suffer for the the community suffers for it. All To Me. That they knew want to have retired school teacher and founder of the Kailua High school girl who took IIT recently for group of spouses gather to rehearse their old songs of dancing in preparation for an upcoming trip to the middle. Outside the islands as a sign of young boy. Because you a better coach have

traveled the four corners of the world to share the spirit of a local. Lol was. Was if you were with me before in that department of education. Now as I retired two years ago I felt I still was blessed with having the opportunity to do what I did in the past. I like to pay back some of it and I still work with the alumni to give what I've received and I hope to continue to do that

because it's fun. It's not work it's fun. And little has taught us all to say so my professional. And I think you can teach me how to say I believe you can teach anyone to sing. The music that we sang all over the world. Meant a lot to us because it was Hawaii and we got to present that to the world basically. And I think I'll carry that with me all my life even though I'm Howley I still have a

you know Hawaiian heart. And so that makes me feel good that I know a little bit about. What makes Hawaii special with. The end. Here. When you started at Kailua it was a dumping ground. At first you know for the chorus and in no time the cars grew and grew until he had the largest cars in the state. And we had. Up to. About. 350 kids like us at the end. And each year he'd bring them home and we keep the ones here and they'd be all over the house and all over the yard and then he started to matter. Then the traveling started. Each year.

They would go. It started out with island tours with the larger groups and then they. Expanded to. In ita States Canada. And soon around where the the. Whoever was. The took the kids around for some 20 years through every part of the world and I wish that I could turn the clock back and share not only with the kids that went with me but share with the world what really how great Hawaii is and. In the sense of a message a message to follow.

At the. Service. The load. The end. The author. In my name and the and I and the question 16. And it was an exciting exciting year for me to be a part of this. And I enjoyed it. When Mr. Hokie retired it was a chance for us hey you're retired We're retired from high school get back together and I think this is the greatest moment. I always enjoyed being a part of a singing group enjoying each other enjoying the people that we entertained for. It was it just makes me feel great. And one word I can say that it's been the most.

Proud of being one outlet of expressing myself in real with my right to hold out to the kind of high school and the program the whole whole room for the. They gave us the case that it was the gun he bought was a. FAR AIM but the

abundant fully aged between Leo Kalani guard Yvonne Lulu. The passing waterfall gravelled the timeworn pathway. To blush mountain heights to the awaking depths of the blue Pacific. Fog. Thank. One. The intersection of power Wahi and Bethel streets in downtown Honolulu was once a

corner of cultural life. In 1900 to the Hawaii theater was the best constructed play house in America. What he's greatest entertainers performed here Jessica Lima Johnny Almeida and the soprano falsetto tones of lean him a shot of. This Broadway size theater could handle a road show or a national touring company. The theater was presented as a monument to the cultural civic and artistic life of the city. But now. What is to become of it. Its future is impair owed. Is it an aging beauty with faded charms to be demolished and never heard from again.

Or is it to become the architectural landmark of downtown Honolulu and the pride of the Pacific. The theater is worth re storing and could become a national historic landmark. Barry bishop is a theater restoration expert who was a leader in bringing back to life one of the premier play houses in America. The Ohio theater in Columbus when it was scheduled for demolition. When we say the Ohio theater you've seen what it look like and what it looks like today in 1969 there was many people wanted to tear it down as wanted to save it big. All they saw was a dirty shabby kind of crummy old movie house. Why. Well that theater has come to be known in

Columbus it's as important as godmother in country. The. Aunt Mary is known by everybody in the theater district as a preservationist. Why why is your. Dermatologist Dr. Norman Goldstein is president of the Hawaii Theater Center and its 34 member board of directors. It's a nonprofit group dedicated to the theater's preservation. She was very interested because the Hawaii theater and the Ohio theater are very very similar same problems same downtown type problems that we have here in downtown Honolulu. I was brought here to do what they called an ask for a project focus survey because of my long experience with matters of this kind almost 20 years now. I would be as interested in it is I didn't see the potential there is here and I've become very interested you know I say we when I talk about there what you theater now.

The Hawaii theater marks a period of American architecture which is no more. You're. The. I mean pre 1940 we're talking about that's not that's not very old. And this is the oldest stone of the year. The theaters that still exist that have really any sort of integrity left. Architect Glenn Mason is chairman of the State Historic Places review board. His firm specializes in downtown restorations. And this in and of itself because it. Is such a monumental for a way Mozart's space makes this building very very special building. It has four levels of 12 dressing rooms with a suitable emblem for

prominence. The lobby is of great chocolate and Tennessee red marble. A typical 1920s evening consisted of a prologue. A concert. A newsreel. And a silent film. Will. The you. Suffer.

You. Know as. I am with the. The with. The detailing on the why theatre is truly unrivaled. I had the opportunity to go with Norm to New York to look at theatres that have been restored there. I expected to come back and look at the Y theatre and be somehow disappointed. I noted pen and ink artist Ramsay is the wife of Dr. Goldstein and an active supporter of the theatre. On the contrary I was extremely amazed at what a potential a boy has. It's better than most of all the theatres that we've viewed in over 30 in New York.

The Goldstein's hosted a Press Club gridiron show to demonstrate the theater's potential. So I'm basically a physician. But when I found out what the theater had to offer. And. When kids came into the hallway theater for the whole of the way for example. College kids would walk along holding their parents hands and say. Hey dad look at that line. Hey mom wow the ice of the children of Hawaii. I their eyes just popped out and I realized that we had to save us not just for this generation but for future generations. The theater isn't safe by any means. I would really say more than anything else time has been bought.

Well we try to marshal forces to save it. Well the hourglass is running. On the Hawaii theater. It's tragic to think that it could be lost to Hawaii. The ship of state is the present owner of the land and theater. A benefactor is needed. Is there a major benefactor in the house. It's not going to be merely a darkened movie house rather a performing arts center of multiple purposes invitingly clubs symphonies chamber orchestras choirs and Barber shoppers. Or the

envelope. A restored downtown theater and related developments could promote jobs a broader tax base and higher property values. But the community has to step forward and say it has to happen. I see it is as requiring 10 years maybe 12. Feet. Was. Least

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