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Post by boogieboarder on Aug 9, 2023 9:38:09 GMT -5
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Post by filledeplage on Aug 9, 2023 9:43:24 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Aug 12, 2023 14:17:06 GMT -5
Utterly horrific. Such massive wildfires regrettably are becoming the norm...
These are Loggins & Messina from happier times. The recent Youtube comments are heartbreaking yet reflect the resilience of the people of Lahaina:
Youtuber holonalu: "This song lured me to Maui in 1975. I'm still here, Front Street is not. Pu'uwai poloke. Aloha Lahaina."
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Post by Emdeeh on Aug 12, 2023 15:58:53 GMT -5
So sad... 😢 💔
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Post by jk on Aug 14, 2023 12:53:00 GMT -5
It's difficult to know what to say right now -- families burnt alive in their homes -- what is there left to say?
This video dates from a year ago:
"Twice a year, in the tropics, the sun passes directly overhead. The Bishop Museum of Honolulu named this event 'Lahaina Noon', a play on words: 'High Noon' and the town of Lahaina ('Cruel Sun') on Maui. The name has been adopted almost world-wide, wherever this summer event occurs.
"Noon Flame for piano and woodwind quintet [flute, alto flute, English horn, B-flat clarinet and bass clarinet] pays tribute to this event. The piano begins with a combination of keys: E-flat and D, simultaneously. The two flutes continue in E-flat while the reeds essentially stay in D. Near the middle of the piece, as noon approaches, the piano begins to tick off the seconds. It is the countdown as the shadows vanish beneath us. At 'noon' the instruments imitate a doppler shift as the sound waves approach and then recede, dropping in pitch. The flutes descend chromatically and the B-flat clarinet performs a brief downward slide (at 6:55). The piece then continues in the key of B major. The clock begins to tick on the after-beat and the piano part, for a while, is played in retrograde. As the shadows reappear, so does the initial melodic material but this time in fragments. The composition heads forward in a way that should remind us of this yearly cycle and that it will be back next summer.
"A tip of the hat to Anne Lanzilotti who created a piece for 10 instruments which was played outdoors in Honolulu during Lahaina Noon in May, 2022."
It was in fact that work by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Lahaina Noon, I was looking for when I arrived here:
Thoughts and prayers for everyone caught up in this tragedy...
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