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Int'l Soul of Japan music fest begins in Moscow Wed
MOSCOW, September 7 (Itar-Tass) - The 8th international Soul of Japan
music festival is to acquaint audiences with the musical culture of the
Land of the Rising Sun. This annual festival, organized under the auspices
of the Embassy of Japan to the Russian Federation, opens in the
Rachmaninoff Hall of Moscow Conservatoire here on Wednesday.
Festival director Margarita Karatygina said, "The aim of the festival
is to bring the Russian public into contact with the spiritual
distinctiveness and treasures of Japanese musical culture."
The festival's music soirees are to be held on the leading stages of
the capital: in the Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, in the Yauza
Palace, and the N.Ya. Myaskovsky concert hall.
The programme for the traditional festival is diverse as usual. It
includes classical and contemporary music with the use of such instruments
as koto, shakuhachi, and shamisen. The best musicians representing
various countries will play works by Japanese composers.
The festival will begin with a Feast of Harmony concert to include
classical Japanese works of the 18th-20th centuries played by performers
of the Association of 21st century music hogaku.
Interest will be undoubtedly generated by such original programmes as
"Flax Dancing in the Clouds", "Opening Japanese Autumn", "Jazz: New York -
Moscow - Tokyo", "The Sounds and Aromas of Nightly Tokyo", and
"Mountain-Sea-Flowers".
The Japanese Wa-On musical ensemble, founded at the Moscow
Conservatoire, as well as renowned performers such as Enekawa Toshiko,
Nishimura Mariko, Nishimura Reiko, Orita Tomomi, Rodrigo Rodriguez and
others will take part in the festival, which is to be traditionally
accompanied with theatricalized performances, an exhibition of Japanese
arts, and the demonstration of the tea ceremony.
The Soul of Japan festival enjoys great interet among this country's
lovers of art and has succeeded in cultivating an audience of like-minded
people, Karatygina pointed out. "A Japanese music class has been
functioning at the Moscow Conservatoire for 20 years now. Leading Japanese
music masters and Russian learners from them have been teacghing there.
Not only musicians but also financiers, architects, psychologists, and
people of other professions study there," Karatygina said.
The festival is to come to a close on December 23, the birthday of
Emperor Akihito of Japan.
music festival is to acquaint audiences with the musical culture of the
Land of the Rising Sun. This annual festival, organized under the auspices
of the Embassy of Japan to the Russian Federation, opens in the
Rachmaninoff Hall of Moscow Conservatoire here on Wednesday.
Festival director Margarita Karatygina said, "The aim of the festival
is to bring the Russian public into contact with the spiritual
distinctiveness and treasures of Japanese musical culture."
The festival's music soirees are to be held on the leading stages of
the capital: in the Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, in the Yauza
Palace, and the N.Ya. Myaskovsky concert hall.
The programme for the traditional festival is diverse as usual. It
includes classical and contemporary music with the use of such instruments
as koto, shakuhachi, and shamisen. The best musicians representing
various countries will play works by Japanese composers.
The festival will begin with a Feast of Harmony concert to include
classical Japanese works of the 18th-20th centuries played by performers
of the Association of 21st century music hogaku.
Interest will be undoubtedly generated by such original programmes as
"Flax Dancing in the Clouds", "Opening Japanese Autumn", "Jazz: New York -
Moscow - Tokyo", "The Sounds and Aromas of Nightly Tokyo", and
"Mountain-Sea-Flowers".
The Japanese Wa-On musical ensemble, founded at the Moscow
Conservatoire, as well as renowned performers such as Enekawa Toshiko,
Nishimura Mariko, Nishimura Reiko, Orita Tomomi, Rodrigo Rodriguez and
others will take part in the festival, which is to be traditionally
accompanied with theatricalized performances, an exhibition of Japanese
arts, and the demonstration of the tea ceremony.
The Soul of Japan festival enjoys great interet among this country's
lovers of art and has succeeded in cultivating an audience of like-minded
people, Karatygina pointed out. "A Japanese music class has been
functioning at the Moscow Conservatoire for 20 years now. Leading Japanese
music masters and Russian learners from them have been teacghing there.
Not only musicians but also financiers, architects, psychologists, and
people of other professions study there," Karatygina said.
The festival is to come to a close on December 23, the birthday of
Emperor Akihito of Japan.
