Ha'i

For some reason, I can't get "Bali Ha'i" out of my head.

Tahiti Trot 2009

It's true that you don't have to be a cock-eyed optimist to find an enchanted evening in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, what with the yawning allure of "Bali Ha'i" and the mournful resonance of "This Nearly Was Mine", rendered here by the strongest voice of the evening, the vibrating operatic Brazilian Paulo Szot.

One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review 2011

And it has helped to come to Espiritu Santo, where romantic notions of Bali Ha'i have yielded to such realities as that shattered engine from a fallen Flying Fortress.

A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

And it has helped to come to Espiritu Santo, where romantic notions of Bali Ha'i have yielded to such realities as that shattered engine from a fallen Flying Fortress.

A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

And it has helped to come to Espiritu Santo, where romantic notions of Bali Ha'i have yielded to such realities as that shattered engine from a fallen Flying Fortress.

A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

Just say something like "Bali Ha'i" or "Oh, what a beautiful morning," and out would pop the perfect tune.

Keeping up Appearances 2002

Just say something like "Bali Ha'i" or "Oh, what a beautiful morning," and out would pop the perfect tune.

Keeping up Appearances 2002

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Ha'i on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12. 1999

And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Ha'i; unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13. 1999

Bali Ha'i and Some Enchanted Evening and the orchestra performs in a satisfyingly opulent style.

Evening Standard - Home Henry Hitchings 2011