TAKUMA ITOH: KOHOLĀ SINGS (2021)
YOLANDA KONDONASSIS, harp
From FIVE MINUTES for Earth
Azica ACD 71349
Released April 1, 2022
The perfect #Earth Day music soundtrack.
Koholā Sings is the first track on the album, FIVE MINUTES for Earth, featuring fifteen newly commissioned harp solos, performed by multiple GRAMMY-nominated harpist, Yolanda Kondonassis.
Koholā (pronounced ko-ho-LAH) is the Hawaiian word for #humpback whales. Every winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Alaska to the warm waters of #Hawai‘i to mate, give birth, and raise their young. Especially during this time, the males are known for singing their loud and complex songs. Koholā Sings starts and ends with an imitation of these humpback whale songs. The remainder of the piece tries to encapsulate the awe that we feel when seeing these impossibly large creatures, even for a fleeting moment, as they come to the surface to breathe, splash, or – if we’re particularly lucky – surge out of the surface to breach. -Takuma Itoh
FIVE MINUTES for Earth is a project that both celebrates #Earth and illuminates the challenge to preserve it. In 2020, Yolanda Kondonassis asked each of the composers featured in the FIVE MINUTES collection if they would consider contributing a work for solo #harp of approximately five minutes in length that expresses a powerful experience inspired by Earth in one of its many conditions or atmospheres. After an overwhelmingly generous response, the endeavor quickly expanded to include a live, multi-media concert, a unique video for each track, a separate published collection of Earth-inspired solos for younger harpists, and most importantly, the opportunity for harpists all over the world to perform these innovative, Earth-inspired works for solo harp by some of today’s most lauded composers; in doing so, every verified performance of any of the works from the FIVE MINUTES for Earth collection, anywhere in the world, will result in a monetary contribution to a recognized earth conservation organization, sponsored by Kondonassis’ non-profit organization, Earth at Heart®. FIVE MINUTES for Earth is also a metaphor for the urgent and compressed timeframe that remains for the global community to embrace and implement solutions to our fast-growing environmental crisis.
For digital program notes and more information about the FIVE MINUTES for Earth project, please visit: www.YolandaHarp.com
The FIVE MINUTES for Earth composers, all of whom donated their works to the project, are Chen Yi, Jocelyn C. Chambers, Michael Daugherty, Daniel Dorff, Reena Esmail, Keith Fitch, Patrick Harlin, Stephen Hartke, Nathaniel Heyder, Takuma Itoh, Aaron Jay Kernis, Philip Maneval, Máximo Diego Pujol, Arturo Sandoval, Gary Schocker, and Zhou Long.
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