THIS WEEK
Barnes & Noble: "Na Pali" will perform songs from their new CD "Pacific Tunings," 8 p.m. March 14. Call 737-3323.
Balkan folk music: Jazz fusion with the Pleasant Peasant Band and visiting clarinetist Souren Baronian, 8 to 11 p.m. March 14 at the Meeting Place Cafe, Kakaako. Call 973-5064.
UH Jazz Ensembles: 7:30 p.m. March 14, Music Courtyard, UH-Manoa. Featuring Patrick Hennessey, director, and Tim Tsukiyama, saxophonist. Cost: $3 to $5. Reserve tickets at 956-8742.
"Kukahi '97": Keali'i Reichel, 7:30 p.m. March 14 and 15, and 1 p.m. March 16, Hawaii Theatre. Also featuring Kekuhi Kanahele and Punahele Star Uluwehi Guerrero. Cost: $30 and $20 for March 14 and 15; and $25 and $15 for March 16. Tickets available at the Hawaii Theatre Box Office, 1130 Bethel St. and all Connection outlets. To charge-by-phone call 528-0506 or 545-4000. Call 528-0506.
Hall & Oates concert: 7:30 p.m. March 14, Nimitz Hall (formerly The Groove). Nathan Aweau, musician in Don Ho's band at night and teacher during the day, will open. Aweau just released his CD titled "Center Stage." Tickets: $22.50. Call 545-4000 or 1-800-333-3388.
Jazz Ensemble: Brigham Young University-Hawaii's Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Band will perform in a series of concerts, March 14 to 18 on Maui. The Jazz Ensemble will perform: 11:15 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. at Lahinaluna High School and 7 to 7:45 p.m. at Kaahumanu Center on March 14. The Symphonic Band will perform 8:50 to 9:35 a.m. March 17, St. Anthony; and 2 to 2:45 p.m. March 18, Hale Makua Nursing Home. Joint concerts will be held noon March 14 at Cannery Mall and 7 p.m. March 14 at the Stake Center.
Pawel Skrzypek: Benefit concert by pianist Pawel Skrzypek for Sean Kennard, Honolulu's Gold Medalist for the first Chopin International Piano Competition of the Pacific, 7 p.m. March 15, Thayer Piano, 1020 Auahi St. Reception to follow. Tax deductible donation: $25. Call 593-9395.
Vogler Quartet: 8 p.m. March 15, Orvis Auditorium at UH-Manoa. They will perform works by Brahms, Britten and Schubert. Cost: $20 general, $15 students. Tickets available at Harry's Music Store or the UH Student Center. Call 956-8242.
Borders-Ward Centre: Myra English to perform songs from "Best of the Champagne Lady," 9 p.m. March 15. Call 591-8995.
Borders-Waikele: Joe Recca and Raymond Medeiros, "Mondokane," 2 p.m. March 15 on the music stage. Autograph session to follow. Call 676-6699.
Baba Badoyen will perform songs from his CD "Big Boy in Love," 2 p.m. March 16 on the music stage. Call 676-6699.
"Ho'oheno: Cherished Moments of Song and Dance": A concert by the Kamehameha Schools Glee Club, and guests Karen Keawehawai'i and the Makaha Sons, 4 p.m. March 16 at Ke'elikolani Auditorium at Kamehameha Schools. Cost: $10 adults; $5 students/staff. Tickets at 842-8393.
World Premieres: Six new works by UH faculty composers E. Takeo Kudo, Neil McKay, J. Mark Scearce, Allen Trubitt, Donald Reid Womack and Byron Yasui, 8 p.m. March 17, Orvis Auditorium at UH-Manoa. Cost: $3 to $5. Call 956-8742.
Princeton Nasoon concert: Princeton University's first male acappella group, 7:30 to 9 p.m. March 17, Lutheran Church of Honolulu. Cost: $15 adults, and $5 students. Call 946-1559.
Opera: Hawaii's Keith Ikaia-Purdy, a tenor soloist who toured with the Vienna State Opera, joins Eve Queler, guest conductor, March 23 and 25. Program includes arias by Puccini and Verdi and works by Wagner -- Prelude to Act II from "Lohengrin," Prelude and Liebesod from "Tristan und Isolde" and the Overture and Venusberg from "Tannhauser." Masterworks 4 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Tickets $10 to $45. "Concert Conversations" with Ikaia-Purdy and Queler will be held an hour before each concert. Open rehearsal 10 a.m. to noon March 20. Donations accepted for the rehearsal. Call 538-8863 or 545-4000.
"Hepcat": with special guest "Homegrown," 8:15 p.m. April 5 at Nimitz Hall, 1130 N. Nimitz Highway. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $15.50. Tickets on sale at all Hungry Ear Records, Tower Records, Pearl Harbor Block Arena, ITT Outlet at Kaneohe MCBH, and Connection outlets. To charge by phone call 545-4000 or 1-800-333-3388. Service charges. Information at 536-3993.
Fellowship awards: The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts will accept applications for the 1997 Individual Artist Fellowships through March 21. The fellowships recognize artistic achievement and include $5,000 to further the artist's career.
Compositions in the following categories are considered: band, choral, contemporary Hawaiian/ethnic, contemporary/pop, musical theater, chamber music, jazz, opera and orchestra. Up to seven fellowships may be awarded.
Applications will be evaluated by two review panels, consisting of volunteers whom the SFCA recognizes as having proven expertise in music; the SFCA board will decide on the awards by the end of May. Forms are available at the SFCA office, 44 Merchant St. For more information, call Hinano Campton at 586-0306.
COMING UP
"Mozart and Haydn": The Oahu Choral Society with director Timothy Carney will perform several pieces including Bach's "Magnificat," Haydn's Mass in D minor, "Lord Nelson," and Mozart's overtures "Abduction from the Seraglio" and "Cosi fan tutte." Joe Moore of KHON Fox 2 will host and be the special guest conductor, 7:30 p.m. March 21 and 22 at the Hawaii Theatre. Tickets $28 to $40. Tickets at 528-0506 or 545-4000.
"Schubert's Great Songs": Music workshop with Gary Hickling, 7 p.m. March 21, Atherton Performing Arts Studio, 738 Kaheka. Listen to original German recordings of Schubert's best-known songs with English translations. Cost: $15 general, $12.50 Hawaii Public Radio members. Reservations at 955-8821.
Richard Thompson performs: Richard Thompson, songwriter, guitarist, singer, and recent Grammy nominee, 9:30 p.m. March 21 at Casanova's in Makawao, Maui. Cost: $15 advance sales; $18 at-the-door. Call 637-4475 (Oahu).
Balkans and the Near East: Instrumental music from Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Armenia and Turkey, 7:30 p.m. March 22 and 29 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Performed by five mainland musicians: Souren Baronian, reeds and percussion; Haig Manoukian, oud; Polly Tapia Ferber, dumbek and tupan; George Chittenden, reeds and gaida; and Lise Liepman, santori and accordion. Cost: $12 general; $10 seniors and students.
Kevin and Yvonne Hopkins of the CD "Reflect Him," 4 p.m. March 23 at Borders-Waikele, music stage. Call 676-6699.