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All Coleridge-Taylor Chamber Music Works Concert
2025/01/07(Tu.) 19:00 Starting
Nakameguro GT Plaza Hall （Tokyo）
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[An Irretrievable Loss in British Music].
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
A tragic musician lost in the merciless summer of 1912.
(From a headline in The Bystander, which reported Taylor's death on September 2, 1912.)
The more one learns about Coleridge-Taylor, the more one realizes how highly regarded he was at the time.
Born in 19th-century England to a Sierra Leonean father and an English mother, he was a talented musician who used his brilliance to establish a firm position in the British music world, despite the harsh discrimination against blacks at the time. However, at a certain point in his life, he began to collect African and African American melodies, as if he were searching for his own "ludes as a mixed-race black man," and he left many works to posterity.
The composer himself wrote the vital Piano Quintet, Op. 1 and the Ninth Quintet, Op. 2 while still in his teens, followed by the Negro Dances from "African Suite, Op. 35," which evokes his interest in African music and the awakening of his inner self. Then, the fourth piece, "Song of the Willows," from "Othello, Op. 79," based on Shakespeare's play "Othello," a well-known theme that has been taken up by many different musicians.
The performers themselves traced and explored the original text, and put their various feelings into the two premiere arrangements written for this concert, composing a one-of-a-kind program that gave the audience a taste of a musician who has yet to be heard in Japan.
A heartbeat that breathes in colorful harmony. ...... When I first encountered his works, I was immediately captivated by the world created by his simple and warm tones. From the day I met him until now, I have had a desire to "play this wonderful sound as if I were bathed in it" in the back of my mind. I feel that we, the "Corona Generation," have become too accustomed to "enduring without stepping out. We who follow the rich music of Coleridge-Taylor, now is the time to run up the "musical ladder" as he did!
(Natsumi Sato, promoter of this concert)
Program
Performer
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Yukiko Niihara
Piano, navigator (music commentary)
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Ayaka Tohi
violin
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Atsushi Tsuda
violin
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Yasukazu Isa
viola
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Marina Kogoshi
cello
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Takashi Matsumori
piano
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Reo Ito
flute
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Risaki Sawada
clarinet
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Natsumi Akira Sato
Fagot, promoter
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Kota Watanabe
horn
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Ryosuke Sugiyama
violin
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Watanabe Rin
viola
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Yoshida, Mariya
cello
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Hibiki Ohtomo
contrabass
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Aika Onishi
piano
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Kei Sato
Arranged and conducted (first performance of arrangement)
Admission and ticket purchase
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How to buy
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