Post by Imagescapegirl on Mar 12, 2010 11:19:11 GMT 1
This event is taking place on Sunday, 14th March, between at 3pm at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.
Details below have been copied and pasted from facebook.
Interesting that Keith now has an official Japanese blog site in Japanese .... hmm pity he doesn't make the effort for us that his girlfriend/partner does for her people.
The esteemed Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Keith Emerson's progressive rock composition "TARKUS" newly arranged to an orchestral piece by composer/arranger, Takashi Yoshimitsu.
After reading the full score, Keith cannot recommend you enough to go see this concert....well, if you live in Japan or happens to be there.
Here is Keith's comment on this inaugural performance.
"THIS, IS A GREAT HONOUR FOR ME TO HAVE MY MUSIC Played and PRESENTED WITH SUCH ESTEEMED PLAYERS!!!
Arranger Takashi Yoshimatsu and orchestra play my work in a land I have grown to love since I first visited Japan in 1972 with my band.
I wrote the ‘Tarkus Suite” 1971 in England. Artist WIliam Neal originally provided the imagery after I came up with a fictitious name for the music I was writing. It was a unique time frame of musical composition and experimentation for me as the changing times and the time changes for England became out of time. I left England as we all had to deal with political issues in subtle ways and it all played its part in the way of things until it grew to define a historic mark as to what is now known as progressive rock music that now falls into contemporary classical.” -- Keith Emerson
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See more on Keith's Official Japanese Blog Site (in Japanese):
blog.goo.ne.jp/keith_emerson_blog/
Concert Info in English:
www.operacity.jp/en/concert/calendar/index.php?year=2010&month=3&type=list#14
Profile of Mr. Yoshimatsu (arranger/composer) in English:
www.japanarts.co.jp/html/JA_artists/eng_profile/yoshimatsu_0817.html
homepage3.nifty.com/t-yoshimatsu/~data/EnglishPage/E-profile.html
Profile of Mr. Fujioka (Conductor) in English:
fujiokasachio.seesaa.net/
Details below have been copied and pasted from facebook.
Interesting that Keith now has an official Japanese blog site in Japanese .... hmm pity he doesn't make the effort for us that his girlfriend/partner does for her people.
The esteemed Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Keith Emerson's progressive rock composition "TARKUS" newly arranged to an orchestral piece by composer/arranger, Takashi Yoshimitsu.
After reading the full score, Keith cannot recommend you enough to go see this concert....well, if you live in Japan or happens to be there.
Here is Keith's comment on this inaugural performance.
"THIS, IS A GREAT HONOUR FOR ME TO HAVE MY MUSIC Played and PRESENTED WITH SUCH ESTEEMED PLAYERS!!!
Arranger Takashi Yoshimatsu and orchestra play my work in a land I have grown to love since I first visited Japan in 1972 with my band.
I wrote the ‘Tarkus Suite” 1971 in England. Artist WIliam Neal originally provided the imagery after I came up with a fictitious name for the music I was writing. It was a unique time frame of musical composition and experimentation for me as the changing times and the time changes for England became out of time. I left England as we all had to deal with political issues in subtle ways and it all played its part in the way of things until it grew to define a historic mark as to what is now known as progressive rock music that now falls into contemporary classical.” -- Keith Emerson
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See more on Keith's Official Japanese Blog Site (in Japanese):
blog.goo.ne.jp/keith_emerson_blog/
Concert Info in English:
www.operacity.jp/en/concert/calendar/index.php?year=2010&month=3&type=list#14
Profile of Mr. Yoshimatsu (arranger/composer) in English:
www.japanarts.co.jp/html/JA_artists/eng_profile/yoshimatsu_0817.html
homepage3.nifty.com/t-yoshimatsu/~data/EnglishPage/E-profile.html
Profile of Mr. Fujioka (Conductor) in English:
fujiokasachio.seesaa.net/
