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BREAKING NEW GROUND One Measure at a Time 2006-2007 Annual Report Our Year-end Message to You Dear HYS Friend, Our 2006-2007 year was • HYS’s first full side-by-side perform- • An improvisational workshop, one of NEWness: new ance with the Honolulu Symphony. open to all instruments, facilitated programs, new music, new It was an historic event that united by Dean Taba and Noel Okimoto, initiatives, new partner- the entire orchestral community; Hawaii’s top jazz musicians; ships, new awards, new • Debuts of new music by Hawaii’s • New partnerships with Niu Valley infrastructure and new own young composers Michael Fou- Intermediate School and the Boys ideas. We closed our fiscal mai and D. Kenji Akemoto; & Girls Club of Hawaii to host year with a respectable sur- HYS weekly rehearsals in the up- • New performances with musical plus, able to fund all of our coming season; and NEWness while retaining talent throughout the state includ- our quality standard for ing the popular Hawaiian group • A new non profit organization, musical excellence, our Maunalua, the Kauai High School Hawai‘i Arts Center for Youth hallmark for 43 years. Choruses, Filipino Centennial Cho- (HACY), sprung from a collabora- rus, bassist Darryl Miyasato, vocalist tion among HYS, Ballet Hawaii, Our NEWness can be Alvin Okami and the KoAloha gang, Hawai‘i Youth Opera Chorus and measured through the fol- and Mayor Mufi Hannemann; Honolulu Theatre for Youth to lowing 2006-2007 initiatives: build a home for arts education. • A newly designed website which is • HYS’s first chamber music program continually updated to provide the It was an invigorating year for HYS for string quartets, woodwind and latest information for HYS families during which things old and new brass quintets.
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