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Almond Lecture Concert in Kitakyushu Vol.2 - Peace and Music

2025/09/06(sa.) 15:00 Starting

Kitakyushu City Well Tobata Medium HallFukuoka

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Almond Lecture Concert in Kitakyushu Vol.2 "Peace and Music" will be held on September 6, 2025 at 15:00 (doors open at 14:15) at Well Tobata Naka Hall. The performance will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2025. This performance will be held on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, with the themes of "Prayer for Peace" and "Beautiful Japanese Songs" to be handed down to the next generation. Mai Tsugumi, a soprano singer of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, will sing for the first time in Kitakyushu City. She will be accompanied by pianist Kazuo Irie and violinist Mami Takeuchi. Ayuko Matsuda will give an easy-to-understand explanation of the background of the music and the breath of the times. We look forward to seeing you there!

Program

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Part I|Light and Shadow of the 20th Century Reflected in Music -- Violin and Piano
Vaughan Williams: Romance for Violin and Piano "Fried Lark
Ravel : Tzigane (Violin and Piano version)
Kreisler: "Prayer" -- Arrangement from the second movement of Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff: 13 Preludes, Op. 32, No. 10 in B minor
Rachmaninoff : Exercise No. 9 in D major from "Pictures of Sound" Op. 39
Ravel : La Valse


Part II: Beautiful Japanese Songs for Children (Soprano and Piano)
Ikuma Dan: Hana no Machi (City of Flowers)
Yamada Kosaku: Karatachi no Hana
Yamada Kosaku: Kono Michi (This Road)
Saburo Takada: Kuchinashi
Makiko Kinoshita: Sea, Tears, and Me
Makiko Kinoshita: To the Bamboo Dragonfly
Toru Takemitsu: A Small Sky
Masaru Sato: A Pencil
Yuji Koseki: The Bells of Nagasaki

Performer

  • Kazuo Irie

    piano

  • thrush (esp. the dusky thrush, Turdus naumanni)

    soprano

  • Mami Takeuchi

    violin

  • Ayuko Matsuda

    story

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Admission and ticket purchase

  • Admission fee

    General admission 5,000 yen University students and under 2,000 yen (tax included)
    Tickets on the day of the show are 500 yen more.

  • How to buy

    Well Tobata General Information 093-871-7200
    Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center 093-562-2655

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