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Arrangements and Compositions of Traditional Japanese Songs and Folk Songs
A song performed by the Canora Children’s Choir at the World Marimba Festival some time ago has somehow stayed in my mind. I thought it must have been “Zuizui Zukkorobashi,”…
Robert van Sice Public Marimba Masterclass
—2002/5/7, 17:10-19:30, Tokyo College of Music, Hall A— A starting time of 5:10 was difficult for me as an office worker, and I arrived around 5:50. The venue was Hall A at Tokyo C…
The Art of Xylos: A New Recording by Alex Jacobowitz
Alex Jacobowitz, Marimba, ARTE NOVA Classics, BMG Entertainment [Buy The Art of Xylos!] The low resonator pipes roar, the high notes sob, and individual sounds dissolve into silenc…
Evelyn Glennie Recital @ Tokyo Opera City
To my embarrassment, this was the first time I had heard Evelyn Glennie perform live. Until then, I knew her only through such things as television broadcasts of the Proms in Brita…
Pavane of Tranquility
—Mie Saito Marimba Recital: A Wind from Gaul— The Pavane was like Gould. Notes played with soft mallets, without rolls, dissolved one by one into the space of the wooden church bef…
The World of Kazuhiko Koyama: A Concert of Works by Kazuhiko Koyama
It has already been some 7 years since I first encountered Koyama’s music. At that time, it was performed amid works by various composers and its contemporaneity was emphasized. Bu…
Stradivarius Summit Concert
Having recently become rather star-struck, after the 3 Great Tenors I went to another extremely star-struck concert: the Stradivarius Summit Concert. The concert was a project that…
The 3 Great Tenors in Tokyo 1996
I went to the concert by the 3 Great Tenors at the National Kasumigaoka Stadium—the concert whose most expensive seats cost 70,000¥5,000. Since my wife was not feeling well, we too…
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