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Aoyama Gakuin March｜Composer Josef Laska Lecture Concert
Aoyama Gakuin 150th Anniversary and 60th Anniversary of Laska's Death Memorial Concert
2024/10/19(sa.) 16:00 Starting
Goucher Memorial Chapel, Aoyama Gakuin University （Tokyo）
Official https://www.aoyama.ac.jp/post05/2024/event_20240927_01
On Saturday, October 19, 2024, the 150th anniversary of the founding of Aoyama Gakuin and the 60th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Josef Laska, "Lecture Concert Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Death of Josef Laska, Composer of "Aoyama Gakuin March"" (hosted by Aoyama Gakuin University and supported by the Austrian Embassy, Austrian Cultural Forum) will be held on Saturday, October 19, 2024.
The Aoyama Gakuin March No. 1 and No. 2, composed by Laska in 1935, had been hidden in the archives of the Anton Bruckner Private University (Linz, Austria) for many years, but Kazumi Negishi has discovered the piano score for the first time in 90 years. In the lecture, we will see the premiere of the original score of "Aoyama Gakuin March" along with Laska's time in Japan, where he also taught at Takarazuka Music Opera School, etc. In the concert, we will focus on works closely related to Japan, and explore the background of the composition of "Aoyama Gakuin March".
The composer Laska had a strange fate. How did he come to compose "Aoyama Gakuin March"? Please enjoy this gem of a work created by an Austrian composer who lived in the Far East during an era of global upheaval!
Program
A lecture will be given prior to the concert.
■Lecture
Speakers: Kazumi Negishi (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University)
Takahiro Takeuchi (Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Moderator: Miki Yamamoto (Professor, College of Education and Human Sciences, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Piano performance: Ryotaro Saito (3rd year, College of Education and Human Sciences, Aoyama Gakuin University) [Aoyama Gakuin March]
Performer
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Yuri Mizobuchi
mezzo-soprano
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General Okada
piano
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Kayoko Sugiyama
flute
Admission and ticket purchase
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Admission fee
Free of charge, all free seating (no application required)