{"id":14090,"date":"2013-02-14T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=14090"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T01:43:46","slug":"handbell-choir-enchants-hawaii-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/14\/handbell-choir-enchants-hawaii-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbell choir enchants <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjNHyzqMrso\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Enchanting is one way to describe the music of the Hakuoh University Handbell Choir from Japan. Performances by the unique choir have been an annual tradition in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for 22 years with a number of concerts in February. It&#8217;s part of a partnership between <a href=\"http:\/\/hakuoh.jp\/english\/index.html\">Hakuoh University<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges<\/a>, a partnership that includes more than just music. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hakuoh and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges exchange students, they have students that come and spend some time with us each fall,&rdquo; said <strong>John Morton<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges vice president. &ldquo;They accept our students who go over and have an experience in Japan.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The handbell choir was founded 25 years ago by Professor Hirotaki Arai and is internationally renown, performing around the world. The 2013 ensemble that traveled to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is made up of 17 students who have the capacity to ring seven octaves of handbells. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You forget about the fact that these are handbells playing because they have so many tonalities that it actually sounds like an orchestra,&rdquo; said <strong>Tom Holowach<\/strong>, the director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/Paliku\/\">Palik&#363; Theatre<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a>. &ldquo;And I think it is phenomenal that they can get that many different sounds out of a bell.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The students play about 120 different bells of all sizes during the performances with the heaviest weighing 15 pounds. They ring the bells in a variety of ways including striking them on foam covered tables and using mallets. Crowds of all ages enjoy the performances that include everything from classical music to contemporary Broadway tunes. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just how everything, how all the bells came together to make the music,&rdquo; said Windward Nazarene Academy 8th grader Bailey Lum. &ldquo;It was really great.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The huge bells were really amazing and they held more than one bell in their hands,&rdquo; said Alii Camacho, a 6th grader at Kamehameha Schools. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The bell choir is amazing,&rdquo; added Morton. &ldquo;I enjoyed each time. I bring my mother. She enjoys it. It is just an amazing repertoire of music and I am glad they share it with us.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<h2>Hakuoh University Handbell Choir performance at Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/juq8HT6WEwQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership with <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College brings Hakuoh University Handbell Choir performances to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[134,65,133,71,947,56,66],"class_list":["post-14090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-international","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-music","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14090"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132000,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions\/132000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}