Happy to share this exclusive news first with our YouTube subscribers:
The Rose Ensemble's recording of Queen Liliʻuokalani's iconic "Aloha ʻOe" has been chosen to appear in Disney's new live-action Lilo & Stitch. In theaters this week!
https://youtu.be/_-lv7IjDsQU?si=yBzPt...
#AlohaOe #QueenLiliuokalani #LiloandStitch #LiloandStitch2025 #Disney #HawaiianMusic #RoseEnsemble
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Thought you all would appreciate the @BYUMensChorusChannel lovely performance from our new edition distributed by @GraphitePublishing. https://youtu.be/N_P3oQy3kNQ
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Well, that was wild. If you had told us back in 2007 (when we recorded "Na Mele Hawai'i") that NINE CD tracks would appear in an #hbomax series, we wouldn't have believed it. Thanks to #MikeWhite and #TheWhiteLotus creative team, and special kudos to Cristobal Tapia de Veer (www.youtube.com/channel/UChRA...) for his positively brilliant original score.
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Episode 5 of #TheWhiteLotus on @hbomax featured our recording of the gorgeous song, "Pua Onaona," written by Charles E. King (1874-1950). Called the "Dean of Hawaiian Music", King further developed Hawai`i’s musical landscape by synthesizing the Royal art song compositional style with mainland jazz elements and dancehall crooner lines, creating a new idiom that made him one of Hawai`i’s most famous composers. With Queen Lili`uokalani as his music teacher, he was a member of the first graduating class of The Kamehameha School for Boys. Himself one quarter Hawaiian and fluent in the Hawaiian language, King's knowledge and appreciation of Hawaiian culture and history was reflected in his compositions. Although he was an innovator who added sophistication and more complex harmonic structure to Hawaiian music, employing not only the guitar and ‘ukulele but also the piano, King was still a staunch traditionalist. He insisted that Hawaiian songs should have Hawaiian lyrics, the subject should be about Hawai`i, and the melodic quality nahenahe (sweet) and not "jazzed up." Listen to the full track: https://youtu.be/cDoMco_f7bo
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Royal Hawaiian music abounds on @hbomax's #TheWhiteLotus. Episode 4 features our recordings of Prince Leleiohōkū's "Nani Wale Līhu`e," and Queen Lili`uokalani's "He Mele Lāhui Hawai`i" and "Aloha `Oe." Long live the Hawaiian Kingdom's musical legacy!
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BREAKING NEWS: HBO's hot new series, #TheWhiteLotus features our recording of historical Hawaiian music, "Nā Mele Hawai'i!" Episode 2 featured the gorgeous choral piece, "Hawai'i Aloha," and there's more to come. Check out our July e-newsletter for more details: mailchi.mp/roseensemble/rose-...
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Here's a little something we found while digging around online, featuring a piece we commissioned from Sergey Khvoshchinsky in 2012. (World premiere at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis.) We normally frown upon pirated videos being uploaded, but it looks like the composer "stole" the performance so we'll let it slide. :) watch video on watch page
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A concert we did in 2017 at Barcelona's Palau de la Música Catalana. We recall being stuffed in an oxygen-less hallway for almost two hours before finally going out on stage (past 11pm), but that's showbiz. :) watch video on watch page
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A recording of a mini-performance we did at the 2017 World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona. watch video on watch page
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Recordings by The Rose Ensemble have recently been featured in the Disney 2025 live-action Lilo & Stich ("Aloha ʻOe"), and HBO's The White Lotus.
For more information about The Rose Ensemble's recordings and published musical editions, visit: www.roseensemble.org