FROM EASTER ISLAND TO KANSAS CITY POLYNESIAN PIANIST TO PLAY THE FOLLY
KC STUDIO
Patrick Neas
July/August 2023
The Harriman-Jewell Series’ 59th season is chock-full of longtime favorites like Emanuel Ax, as well as exciting new offerings, including a collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group celebrating the late, great Kansas City native Burt Bacharach. There are also some of the world’s finest orchestras and free Discovery concerts, too.
Easter Island, Chile, also known as Rapa Nui, is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. With a population of a little more than 5,000 people and dotted with 1,000 monumental sculptures known as moai, it is an island of myth, magic and mystery.
Mahani Teave, an acclaimed international pianist who was born in Hawaii to a Rapa Nui father and an American mother, was raised on Easter Island. She is also co-founder of the island’s first music school.