by Peter | Mar 15, 2012 | Features
Students from around the world onstage in Osaka On December 4, 2011, 87 international students from 19 countries and regions studying at universities and colleges in the greater Kansai area gathered in the grand concert hall of the Osaka International House...
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”...
