Hawaii has a baton, at last
OrchestrasThe Australian Dane Lam has been named music director of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.
He is the first incumbent since the orchestra went temporarily bankrupt a decade ago.
Lam, a Kurt Nasur protege, is also chief conductor of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra in China and a lecturer at the University of Queensland.
aka Lame Dan
The former Honolulu Symphony under the umbrella organization has managed to come through as the Hawai’i Symphony. JoAnn Falletta deserves credit for bringing the orchestra to its current standing. Glad to see they have selected a new Music Director to carry the orchestra through the next chapter. In the past, Donald Johanos and I performed Prokofiev’s Third Concerto, Lalo Schifrin’s “Concerto of the Americas” and, with Samuel Wong, the rarely played “Concerto America” by Charles Strouse – which had been the basis of the what was to be the first 50 state commissioning project cut short by the tragedy of 9-11-2001. Good luck to Dane Lam and this wonderful orchestra!!
Dane is a good and respected conductor and also a very nice person. Congratulations and well deserved. CC