Lili'uokalani Symphony

The Lili'uokalani Symphony is Argentine-American composer Lalo Schifrin's First Symphony. Commissioned by her family, it was dedicated to the memory of Queen Liliʻuokalanii, the last Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii who was also an ecologist and composer who sacrificed her crown in order to save her people.[1]

Lili'uokalani Symphony
Studio album by
Lalo Schifrin
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1995
Recorded1994
Genre20th-century classical music
Length57:07
LabelUrtext Digital Classics
NX.JBCC006
ProducerLalo Schifrin
Neil Hannahs, Executive producer
Lalo Schifrin chronology
Firebird: Jazz Meets the Symphony No. 3
(1995)		 Lili'uokalani Symphony
(1995)		 Music from Mission: Impossible
(1996)

The symphony premiered in Hawaii by an ad hoc group of musicians from the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra named "The Lili'uokalani Symphony Orchestra" in 1993.[2] The work was then recorded by the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra) with the Kamehameha Elementary School Children's Chorus and the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus under the direction of the composer,[3] assisted by choral conductors Nola Nahulu and Lynell Bright. The album was released on CD on the Urtext Digital Classics label on January 1, 1995 and is also available as a digital download.[4]

Track listing

Symphony #1 (Lili'uokalani) by Lalo Schifrin[4]

  1. First movement (17:21)
  2. Second movement (13:35)
  3. Third movement (7:45)
  4. Fourth movement (18:26)

Personnel

Source = [4]

References
  1. "Lili'uokalani Symphony". Urtext Digital Classics. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  2. Dale Emerson Hall (2002). The Honolulu Symphony: a century of music. Goodale Pub. p. 205.
  3. "Lalo Schifrin - SYMPHONY FOR QUEEN LILI UOKALANI, QUEEN OF HAWAII". YouTube, LLC. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. "Lalo Schifrin Lili'uokalani Symphony". AllMusic, member of the RhythmOne group. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
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