Canticus Germanicus
The Melting Pot of Reform and Counter-Reform
September 20, 2025 • 7:30 pm
Lutheran Church of Honolulu
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With the shifting tides of Reformation and Counter- Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries, regional aesthetics mingled to produce music of profound beauty. Journey through two transformative centuries of sacred and secular sounds in the German-speaking world, featuring some of the period’s most notable composers from southern Germany, northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland. Isaac, Lassus and Senfl developed intimate Renaissance polyphony, performed a cappella or with viols. They inspired the richness of the early Baroque in the music of Erbach and Lechner and the more ornate and elaborate works of middle Baroque composers Kerll and Gletle.
Fantasias and Dances of the English Restoration
November 14, 2025 • Lutheran Church of Honolulu
November 16, 2025 • Queen Emma Community Center, Kealakekua
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New World Recorders brings to Hawai‘i a new program of “lush, theatrical and gnarly” quartets by Jenkins, Locke and Purcell, leading composers of the 17th century English Restoration. The four recorder players of Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra’s Tempesta di Mare first played Bach’s Art of the Fugue in 2017, and they have since increased their repertory and performed at events and early music festivals across the country.
Melancholy & Mirth:
The Music of John Dowland
Saturday, March 21, 2026 • Lutheran Church of Honolulu
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Early Music Hawaii Singers and Players
Scott Fikse, director
Special Guests: John Lenti, lute
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Lutenist and composer John Dowland was a Renaissance celebrity. This year we celebrate 400 years of his music with a concert featuring renowned lutenist John Lenti, early music specialist and soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw, and the Early Music Hawaii Singers and Players. Dowland’s world will be brought vividly to life through his own compositions paired with those of his continental colleagues—composers he encountered during extensive travels across Europe. These works trace a rich emotional arc, from the outlandish and hilarious to the mournful and deeply moving.
Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy
Friday, May 29, 2026 • Lutheran Church of Honolulu
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Sunday, May 31, 2026 • Queen Emma Community Center, Kealakekua
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The American ensemble Lyracle brings us the story of four Japanese boys of noble birth who set sail from Nagasaki to Lisbon. They were students at the Jesuit school in Kyūshū and were sent on a tour of Italy and Iberia as ambassadors of three Japanese daimyō who had converted to Christianity. Music was a key component in their mission, and the American Ensemble Lyracle has assembled a selection of music for voice and viols that they would have brought back to the Jesuit mission in Japan. Follow this fascinating story as they share with us that music and narrative for their first performances in Hawai‘i.
