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World Children’s Music Festival 2021 in Tokyo Let’s play, sing and strive

03.29 (Mon) ⇨ 04.01 (Thu) @ 東京芸術劇場 コンサートホール place
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World Children’s Music Festival 2021 in Tokyo Let’s play, sing and strive
03.29 (Mon) ⇨ 04.01 (Thu) | 東京芸術劇場 コンサートホール, Tokyo, Japan

World Children’s Music Festival 2021 in Tokyo Let’s play, sing and strive

  • alarm Open 2021/03/29 (Mon) 17:00 JST
  • date_range 2021/03/29 (Mon) 18:00 - 2021/04/01 (Thu) 20:00
  • grade Classic

Friends of El Sistema Japan initially planned to hold the World Children’s Music Festival in April 2020 to bring together children from eight countries worldwide and across Japan. However, due to the spread of COVID-19, the festival was postponed to March 2021.

Unfortunately, the pandemic has limited the possibilities for everyone to play on stage together, but we have not given up on adhering to our festival’s vision. We will share messages and performance videos from friends both in Japan and abroad, and the concert will be live-streamed online, accessible from anywhere around the world.

Instead of Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 , the World Children’s Music Festival Orchestra will play his Symphony No.5 which is a memorable piece for the members of the Soma Children's Orchestra. They performed it in Berlin five years ago and will perform this monumental piece again with musicians who will gather to support the festival’s mission. The Soma Children’s Chorus and Tokyo White Hand Chorus will perform “Ametsuchi no Uta” (lyrics by Nozomu Hayashi/composed by Maki Ueda), a beautiful suite of songs that celebrates nature in Japan.

As people across the world struggle to overcome the pandemic, we wish to share joy and hope through this festival and deliver El Sistema’s universal mission: to play, sing, and strive.



​Program

●Pre-recorded message and performance by children from Japan and abroad

●Live performance

​ Maki Ueda: Ametsuchi no Uta (Song of Nature)

 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

 Mozart:Ave verum corpus(K. 618)


Cast
 Soma Children's Orchestra
 Soma Children's Chorus
 Tokyo White Hand Chorus

 World Children’s Music Festival Orchestra

 Yusuke Kimoto(Conductor)
 Fujio Furuhashi ( Choir master)
 Harumi Noma (Piano)

Video message and performance
 Otsuchi Children's Orchestra
 Komagane Children's Orchestra
 Ação Social pela Música(Brasil)
 Sistema Aotearoa(New Zealand)
 Big Noise from Sistema Scotland(Scotland/England)
 TUTTI Passeurs d’Arts(France)
 Orchestra of Dream(South Korea)
 Youth Orchestra LA(USA)

Organizer
Friends of El Sistema Japan

Grant
Arts Council Tokyo Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan Arts and Culture Foundation
Tokyo Club

Nominal Support (planned)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
American Embassy
British Council
Embassy of Brazil in Japan
Embassy of France in Japan/ French Institution in Japan
Embassy of Korea in Japan/ Korean Cultural Center

Cosponsor
Kikkoman Corporation

Cooperation
Tokyo Arts Theater
Water Dragon Foundation

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