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Cat Manapua
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I think it is great that someone who loves the symphony has stepped up to pay its bills. This is how it should work - no tax dollars, just let those who want this, pay for for it.
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BMillies
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I agree with the last post. As long as tax payers don't get nailed fine.
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Tsta
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this syphony is allways known as sympathy, why don't they go and play at aala park for the druggies and homeless then go get a real job and be homeless like the rest of the hard working people
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Tsta
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Move the ssymphony to Kaneohe with the rest of the pupuli people. they can hang out at the red roof colledge
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Cutchase64
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Whew! I'd imagine the musicians were down to
their last case of Chicken noodle soup from
Costcos. It's that wierd artist life-one day
you're eating steak, wearing tails, next day you
starve.
Europeans appreciate their artists a little better.
Hawaii is in a dog-eat dog survival mode and the
arts usually get shuffled to the corner.
Math & Science-damn important...so is
art education.
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Paul Klink
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As a long time symphony supporter I would like to offer the services of Aloha Direct Advertising and Marketing, pro bono, to assist in raising the funds required, not to just make up for shortfalls, but sustain the orchestra with a prudent reserve that would precipitate interest that will cover ongoing expenses. A perpetual solution with fiscal management could be created.
Live Aloha,
Paul
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Paul Klink
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A deep and lasting Mahalo to the woman who stepped up on her own and sustained the symphony with this gracious donation. Thank you!
Live Aloha,
Paul
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alice
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This is a sad waste of money from some big whig. I am nto impressed. The Symphony is below mediocre and should be closed if they cannot get people to pay for tickets to listen to their bad noise. Go to a real symphony-go to the SF Symphony. This sad outfit is nearly worthless and the audience has voted with their feet. as for donors, please help the homeless, the hungry and sick, the old and the children who need a better early education.
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Cutchase64
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Buzz off fly
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alice
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Nope..I am right. And rightness has its honors.
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Let the symphony go
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it's a business, if you can't break even or make money, you need to close the doors! How many of you would donate you hard earned cash to a sinking ship...
Agree with Alice!! Those 4 orphaned kids in Ewa(parental murder/suicide)could use the money the lady donated for (sub-par) entertainment.
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Cutchase64
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Some businesses are closer to
pure monetary profit. Some businesses
are connected to the lifeblood of culture and the human spirit.
Hawaiian music (contemporary and the
Classics) and Longhair music are both great artforms.
It's all music. They all
breathe together and influence
one another.
It's hypocritical for someone
(the fly) to constantly deride
Hawaii's resources and point the
finger to the mainland as being
superior.
That's akin to the ol' our
football team can't cut it with the
mainland boys.
Support the arts.
Your keiki may be the one
slated to be the next Yoyo Ma.
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rightness
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so glad alice is back. her comments are always good for a laugh!
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Cutchase64
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rightness wrote: so glad alice is back. her comments are always good for a laugh! Da fly is predictable to me.
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Rahela
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You have to have a deep appreciation for the arts. It would be truly a sad day if the symphony goes. Thank you so much for this generous contribution. I have fond memories of my son, Paul and I going to the symphony together when he was a young teen. The music moved us on a spiritual n intellectual plain.
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Waiter
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Brother Love wrote: if the symphony closed up shop you would be lucky to have 10% of the gen public deeply saddened by it. thats the truth.. Yes, that's because other 90% are too ignorant 1) to know what they're missing, and 2) to see the importance of the arts. And that's the truth.
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Blackpope808
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You know I used to get mad at alice, and then realized that alice is stirring things up with her comments. Well, this generous person donated her own money. Why she should give it to kids in Nanakuli, or the homeless, or whoever else is none of anyone's concern. Does Hawaii need a symphony, no...take a look at the people on these miserable rocks. All they do is complain and nag. Speed around in their cars to go half a mile to use their EBT cards at the grocers; whose idiot union workers are still standing outside crying for a boycott...do they know that it doesn't matter??? They don't have a job now, why tell people to boycott so your friends can be out of a job too! ANY art or culture is wasted on the people in Hawaii...even the Kingdom Government doesn't realize that they should be across the street where the seat of government really was, not Iolani Palace.
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alice
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The donor has every right to donate her money to anyone. I simply say that from society's perspective, she could have helped the community more by bypassing a sinking ship and investing in something more desperately needed. She does not impress me nor am I in any way grateful to her. Let the Symphony earn tis own way by filling the seats. It can not fund raise its way out of the mess they made.
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Cutchase64
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The arts sometimes impacts the public
in a slow delivery, but wide arc.
Stravinski let's loose his "The Rite of Spring"
Boingo-a public riot. Many years later, it's a
world standard for dance troupes.
Mayan Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial was
despised, lambasted...now, it's one of America's
most loved and respected memorials.
The 1913 NY Armory show of Post Impressionists
had the European Painters "showing up" the
American painters and the public were so
conservative..a near riot ensued.
The American public was not ready for
the abstraction.
The public is not stupid nor ignorant and
yes, financial priorities are always to be
considered. Still, they do have to leave some foresight to artists involved (some dedicated for a lifetime in their field).
"You don't want to cut anything else off the bust
of Venus ... for any reason."
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alice
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True..but the sad reality is that the Symphony here cannot play these works in a compelling fashion. You need to go to San Francisco to hear them.
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