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Kuchizusamu" - with narration by an activist benshi
Classical music is mouthwatering!"
2023/02/17(Fr.) 19:00 Starting
Millennium Hall, Taito City Lifelong Learning Center （Tokyo）
Official https://neoco.jp/
At silent film screenings, which began to gain popularity around the 1890s, "katsudo benshi" (narrators) were used as commentators to overcome differences in language and cultural backgrounds and provide enjoyment. The existence of benshi was a natural consequence of Japan's long-established narration culture, which includes the tayu (narrator) of ningyo joruri (puppet theater) and the deyatari (storyteller) of kabuki. The "intermission music" concerts held during the intermission of silent film screenings were the first time for many Japanese people to hear Western music and musical instruments.
This concert will be performed by a small orchestra composed mainly of musicians who graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, accompanied by commentary by Nanako Yamauchi, an "activity benshi," allowing everyone to listen to the music from their own perspective while gaining hints about the background and interest of the piece.
Kuchizusamu
Performed by: Chamber Orchestra NEO
Concert Master: Keiichi Asai
Conductor: Motoki Tanaka
Moderator: Nanako Yamauchi (katsudo benshi)
Program
Arvo Pärt
Cantus - In Memory of Benjamin Britten" (1977)
Koshikabo
Japanese Folk Song Fantasy" (commissioned and premiered in 2023)
(Based on the music selected by Nagai Iwai (1891) "Japanese Folk Songs: Western Sheet Music", Osaka: Miki Shoten)
Yanis Xenakis [100th anniversary of his birth]
Aroura" (1971)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 (186a)" (1774)
Venue: Millennium Hall, Taito City Lifelong Learning Center
(about 8 minutes walk from Exit 1 of Iriya Station on the Hibiya Line)
Friday, February 17, 2023
Doors open at 18:30, Concert begins at 19:00, Concert ends at 21:00
No preschool children
General 3,000 yen U-15 1,500 yen
[Open rehearsal for children]
Friday, February 17, 2023
15:00-17:00
Preschool children, free entry and exit, adults only
General 2,000 yen U-12 free
[Online distribution]
You can purchase from the same link. You can watch it as many times as you like for 2 weeks from the start date (URL will be sent to you after ticket purchase).
Organized by: Neoclassical Collective
Supported by: Tokyo University of the Arts Doyukai
Supported by: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo [Start-up Grant].
Program
〜About the commissioned premiere work "Japanese Folk Song Fantasy
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), an Italian composer famous for his masterpieces such as "Tosca" and "La bohème," will present a new composition based on songs that appear in "Nihon mokyoku shu" ("Collection of Japanese Folk Songs"), which is said to be the source from which he obtained the original source for songs such as "Miya-san miya-san," "Oedo Nihonbashi," and "Kappore" quoted in his opera "Madame Butterfly" (1904). (first published in 1891 by Miki Shoten), from which he obtained the original sources for songs such as "Miyasan-miyasan," "Oedo-Nihonbashi," and "Kappore.
The "Nihon Shokyoku-shu" was the first book in the world to publish Japanese songs in Western notation with English titles, and was edited by the composer and conductor Nagai Iwai, who was a music band leader when the 4th Division Military Band (the predecessor of the current Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra) was established, and later served as a military band leader for the Imperial Guard and was also deeply involved with the Meiji Emperor. Nagai Iwai, a composer and conductor who was deeply involved with Emperor Meiji. Nagai Iwai is the great-grandfather of Motoki Tanaka, who will conduct this performance.
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