Posted on: Friday, May 13, 2005
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Classical chops at Sun concert
Advertiser Staff
Now 24, Sun took first prize in the National Chopin Piano Competition earlier this year. The New York-based pianist will do a solo performance tonight at the Doris Duke Theatre at the Academy.
Tickets are $15 ($10 for academy members, seniors, students and military). For more information, call the Ellen Masaki School of Music at 593-9395. Wanna check out Sun's solo repertoire and hear his way with a Béla Bart—k etude first? See www.meiting.com. Streaming toward Sainthood
Beatification live on Web
Calling all early birds and Mother Marianne Cope fans: If you're plugged in, you can watch the beatification ceremonies in the Vatican tomorrow from the comfort of your own computer digs. Though it's not broadcast on cable TV here, a Catholic channel, Eternal Word Television Network, will be showing the ceremonies live on streaming video from the Vatican via its Web site, www.ewtn.com. But if you can't drag yourself to the computer at 5 a.m. Hawai'i time (11 a.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Rome time), there's good news: Susan Wood of EWTN said there will be an encore presentation 12 hours later, at 5 p.m. Hawai'i time.
Fnal word
Kenneth Branagh | on being asked by kids to sign autographs as the vain Professor Gilderoy Lockhart from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
Pianist Mei-Ting Sun was just 15 when the Village Voice awarded him some street cred as one of its musicians of the year for 1996.
"They're sweet. They have no idea who you are. They go, 'You're the one with Cornish pixies.' "
