Toshima City Orchestra New Year Concert 2023

Toshima Ward celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.
The Toshima City Orchestra New Year Concert 2023 is a concert to celebrate the New Year as well as the 90th anniversary of Toshima Ward's ward system.

The first half of the concert will open with Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, made famous by its use in the anime "Nodame Cantabile.
The rhythmic and gorgeous atmosphere of this masterpiece is a perfect way to celebrate the New Year in Toshima City, which is also a bustling manga and anime town.

The first piece of the second half is "Genealogy - Musical Poem for Young People," a 1992 work by Toru Takemitsu, a world-renowned Japanese composer. Commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the New York Philharmonic, the piece features a narrator reciting excerpts from Shuntaro Tanikawa's "Hadaka," a collection of poems. In the piece, the narrator recites part of a collection of poems called "Hadaka," a collection of poems by Shuntaro Tanikawa, in which the narrator recites part of a collection of poems called "Hadaka." The work was chosen to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Toshima Ward, which has developed from the past to the future as if tracing a genealogical tree. I wanted to make people, especially young people, think a little about the existence of a true self that can freely interact with the outside world from within the family, which should be the core of human society. He said. Today's narrators are members of the Chihaya High School Drama Club, which participated in the 68th National High School Drama Contest and won an award for excellence.

The last piece is Stravinsky's ballet suite "The Firebird" (1919 version). Shuntaro Tanikawa, the author of the poem recited in the "Genealogy" section, also wrote the lyrics to the theme song of "Astro Boy," the most famous work by Osamu Tezuka, a cartoonist related to Toshima Ward. It is also documented that "The Firebird," another Osamu Tezuka masterpiece, was inspired by the ballet "The Firebird" by Stravinsky, which will be performed by Mr. Tezuka. It is also said that Stravinsky's praise of Toru Takemitsu's "Requiem for Strings," which had previously been unknown to the world, brought him instant acclaim and made him one of the world's leading composers.

Anime, Takemitsu Toru, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Osamu Tezuka, Firebird, Stravinsky, and many other keywords are connected to the Toshima City Orchestra New Year Concert 2023, so please look forward to it.