MTU Music Professor's Research Honors Hawaiian Ancestors, Leads to First Composition

MTU Music Professor's Research Honors Hawaiian Ancestors, Leads to First Composition

Two decades of research into his family's place in Hawaiian history inspired a Michigan Tech associate professor of music to create the tone poem "Kalaupapa" — his first musical composition.Researchers often pursue topics they are connected to. In the case of longtime conductor and first-time composer Joel Neves, inspiration struck a deeply personal chord, bound by a sacred promise. Neves, an associate professor of music in Michigan Technologica…