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The Honolulu Advertiser - Island Life
Posted on: Monday, May 28, 2001

The Left Lane
Beyond the instruments

"A Concertgoer's Guide," $20, is available at the concert tomorrow or via mail from the symphony office (add $4 for postage), 792-2000.
The Honolulu Symphony is performing the final concert series of its 101st season and celebrating with a new publication, "A Concertgoer's Guide," a 100-page, magazine-style introduction to the orchestra, its history and its members, meant to "break down the invisible wall between audience and orchestra."

The guide includes interviews with the orchestra members full of the kind of details that flesh out those rows of people in black and white. An example is the long segment on a 47-year member, first violinist Dale Bechtel, 80, who is retiring after tomorrow night's concert. Bechtel tells how former conductor George Barati fooled him into an audition, and offers a "Magnum, P.I." anecdote.

— Advertiser staff

CBS a ratings survivor

Viewers watching Tina Wesson and Colby Donaldson compete for $1 million on "Survivor II" helped CBS gain the No. 1 ratings spot.
ABC unexpectedly won the TV season ratings championship last year because of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" — and lost it this year for the same reason, as waning interest in the game show handed the big viewership numbers to CBS, which had a hit with "Survivor II."

It's a "put your eggs in one basket" era in TV as CBS averaged 12.53 million viewers in prime time for the TV season "year," up 1 percent from last year; ABC averaged 12.51 million, down 12 percent; NBC averaged 11.6 million, down 6 percent; and Fox averaged 9.6 million, up 7 percent.

ABC was in the lead until CBS premiered the second edition of "Survivor" in January and scheduled it for Thursday nights. That, coupled with that of the freshman drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," transformed the competitive landscape on a night NBC has long dominated.

NBC still tops the ratings in the age-18-to-49 demographic most coveted by advertisers, with Fox coming in second.

— Associated Press

A fresh look at Kapalua

Sommelier Andrea Immer is host of this year's annual Kapalua Wine & Food Festival event.
The Kapalua Wine & Food Festival has announced the schedule for its 20th annual gathering July 5-8 at the Kapalua Resort. It's got an updated name (it used to be a "symposium"); the theme "A Fresh Look at the Family Farm"; and a new host, master sommelier Andrea Immer, author of "Great Wine Made Simple: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier."

In addition to the usual opening Grand Tasting and closing Seafood Festival events with winemaker dinners sandwiched in between, Immer has designed a menu that includes seminars on California cabernet, matching Rhine and Rhone wines with Pacific Rim cuisine, and wine and cheese matching, a "Ready, Set, Cook" game and a wine-tasting challenge designed to reveal stylistic differences between Old and New World wines.

A four-day pass is $500; separate event tickets also are available. Information: www.kapaluawineandfood.com or 1-800-KAPALUA.

— Advertiser staff
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