by Peter | Mar 15, 2012 | Features
Poster welcoming visitors to the Asakusa Opera exhibition July 30, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Taisho (“period of great righteousness”) era in Japan. This all-too-brief period of Japanese history followed the chaotic...
by Peter | Jan 15, 2012 | News, Orchestral
Yuzo Toyama It may be a custom unique to Japan: Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 is played annually during the year-end season by many orchestras and choral groups all over Japan, a custom that originated with the NHK Symphony Orchestra sometime in the 1940s in Tokyo....
by Peter | Dec 20, 2011 | Interviews, SpainRA
“Flamenco is a physical expression of living as a human being.” Yoko Komatsubara Min-On: Last year, UNESCO officially declared flamenco an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’. Please briefly tell us about flamenco in general. Yoko Komatsubara:...
by Peter | Dec 12, 2011 | Features
Benny Goodman Orchestra performs in Tokyo The “King of Swing” Benny Goodman and his orchestra was one of the most popular musical groups in America during the Swing Era that began in the mid-1930s, and helped secure a new place for jazz as “America’s classical music”...
by Peter | Dec 12, 2011 | Japanese Arts, News
Taiko drummer from Asuka Gumi Maidaiko Asuka Gumi, one of the most acclaimed professional Japanese traditional taiko drum troupes, triumphed in its 20th anniversary concert at Nakano Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo on December 9, 2011, following a yearlong nationwide...
