Score one for
museum and symphony

This 60th year anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack has seen a movie based on the event, the long-awaited announcement of a museum planned for the Arizona Memorial Visitor Center and an upcoming scholarly symposium in December. This is also likely the last major anniversary of the event that veterans will be able to attend.

The business at hand is fund-raising for the memorial museum. Here's a modest suggestion: Jerry Goldsmith's brilliant score for the movie "Tora Tora Tora" was rewritten a few years ago for symphonic performance, but is not widely performed since it uses traditional Japanese instrumentation such as koto and taiko. The multicultural Honolulu Symphony, however, is well up to the task of performing this piece.

Perhaps the Honolulu Symphony could perform the work, along with similar works such as Sir William Walton's masterpiece, "The Battle in the Air," at an event or two that would raise funds both for the symphony and the museum.

--Burl Burlingame

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