New Symphony Orchestra

Nobuaki Nakata is a conductor of note today.
　Born in Kyoto in 1975, Nakata went on to study at the University of Tsukuba's School of Medicine (the equivalent of a medical school at another university). He has been a member of the Valencia Opera Orchestra since 2006, and has been active as a conductor based in Spain since then.
　For their first collaboration, the New Symphony Orchestra chose Akira Ifukube's "Sinfonia Tapuqara," which the orchestra has often performed as one of its most important works, and "The Triangular Hat," a masterpiece by the Spanish composer Falla.

Japanese nationalist composer Akira Ifukube
　Akira Ifukube was born in Kushiro, Hokkaido, and when he was in elementary school, he moved to Otoso Village (present-day Otoso Town, Tokachi Region), where his father became the village mayor, and came into contact with the Ainu people. Tapukāra means "to stand up and dance" in Ainu, and her sympathy and memories of the Ainu people, who sang impromptu poems and danced endlessly in times of joy and sadness as their feelings dictated, motivated her to create "Sinfonia Tapukāra.
　He studied forestry at Hokkaido Imperial University, and after graduation continued to compose while working as a forestry officer, becoming an almost self-taught composer. He has since left behind orchestral works as well as film music, including "Godzilla," and has trained many composers as an educator. The founding conductor of the New Symphony Orchestra, Yasushi Akutagawa, was one of his students, and the orchestra has performed many of Ifukube's works, and the members of the orchestra have fond memories of rehearsals with the composer present.

Spanish nationalist composers: Falla and Turina
　Faria, known for his ballets "The Triangular Hat" and "Love is a Magician," was a Spanish composer. He was greatly influenced by the flamenco music of Andalusia, and after working in Madrid, he stayed in Paris for about seven years, where he had contact with Dukas and Ravel. At the same time, Trina, who was six years older than him, came from Madrid to Paris to study, and the two were close friends, both of whom produced works that mixed Spanish folk music with French Impressionism.
　In "The Three-Cornered Hat," the story is about a deputy who falls in love with a beautiful miller's wife and tries to make a move on her, but is rebuffed and runs away. The triangular hat here is not the pointy hat used at parties, but a hat with a large brim and three horns, a symbol of the authority of the deputy.
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