Songs of the Sky and Birds

Program

No more - from Sorairo no hana
Poem by Misuzu Kaneko / Composed by Emi Sasahara
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Piano: Kiyoshi Itaya

Through the Gilded Trellis (Fence) from "Three Facades
Words: E. Sitwell / Composed by W. Walton
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Piano: Kiyoshi Itaya

The Nightingale
Poem: Unknown / Composed by L. Dreve
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Flute: Sayaka Himemoto / Piano: Kiyoshi Itaya

Katsushika Hokusai Goes to Paris
Words & Music: Shion Sawara
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Piano: Kiyoshi Itaya

Summer Shift - from Songs of a Young Man
Poem: A child's mysterious horn / Composed by G. Mahler
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida/Piano: Itaru Ogawa

Komadori no omureki (Funeral of Komadori) - from "Mazaa gusu" by Kitahara Hakushu
Words: Kitahara Hakushu / Composed by Mizuki Aida
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Flute: Sayaka Himemoto / Piano: Itaru Ogawa

Songs of the Songbird Flute (World Premiere)
Composed by Mizuki Aida
Flute: Sayaka Hinemoto

Uguisu (Japanese nightingale) from "Four Unaccompanied Romances on Poems by Haruo
Lyrics: Haruo Sato / Composed by Fumio Hayasaka
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida

Warbler's Song (World Premiere)
Words by Kitahara Hakushu / Composed by Aida Mizuki
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Flute: Sayaka Himemoto / Toy Piano, Keyboard Harmonica, Piano: Itaru Ogawa

The Bird of Soul
Lyrics: J. Venho / Composed by Juha T. Koskinen
Japanese translation by Midori Takahashi / Arranged by Itaru Ogawa
Piano: Kiyoshi Itaya, Itaru Ogawa / Narrator: Yuta Hachinohe

The Sky
Lyrics: Shuntaro Tanikawa / Composed by Hikaru Hayashi
Song: Tsuguyo Fuchida / Flute: Sayaka Himemoto