Admission fee 2000 yen (All seats reserved)

Cast: Women's Choir September Breeze/Kuriyama Fumiaki (conductor) /Tanaka Emi (conductor) /Tsurumi Sachiyo (Sanshin (Three-string guitar)) /Saiki Yuri (p) /Sunaga Mami (p)

Tracklist
Arranged by Rikuya Terashima: Nagasaki no Kane (A collection of popular songs arranged during and after the war for female chorus) premiere
Nobunaga Takatomi: First performance commissioned by others
Sachiyo Tsurumi: First performance of the Okinawan bouquet arrangement commission for “Tsukinubiya,” “Koina Yunta,” “Lullaby of Love,” and “Kunigami Sabakui”

Explanation of Okinawan flower bouquet works:
It is a collection of choral songs arranged by Okinawan warabe songs and folk songs. After receiving the request for arrangement, I was worried about what kind of song to choose. Senior composers have worked on many wonderful arrangements for warabe songs, so I chose songs based on my own experiences of living in Okinawa while trying not to wear songs as much as possible. “Tsukinubiya” is a typical lullaby of Yaeyama folk music. It is a beautiful piece of music that begins with the song The Thirteenth Night of the Moon. “Koina Yunta” is also a Yaeyama folk music. “Yunta” is sung while collaborating while working in fields, etc., and the singer and Hayashi play at a good tempo, so the work is carried out efficiently. Among the many “yunta”, “Koina Yunta” is placed on a fun melody, and natural scenes of the early summer season, mountains, trees, flowers, and carp birds (sandpipers) appear. “Ai no Lullaby” is a new folk song popular in Yaeyama after the war. Ostensibly bright lyrics and melodies exude the sorrow and frustration of war, and it was sung in a time when standard language encouragement education was being carried out in parallel with dialect eradication campaigns. It seems that DAIKU Tetsuhiro sensei, who is the master of Yaeyama folk music, learned it because his grandpa sang it for him. “Kunjan (Kunjan) Sabakui” is an unusual work song for Okinawan folk music that sings how many people join forces to cut and transport the heavy timber that builds Shuri Castle. Recently, it has been actively sung at Shuri Castle reconstruction events, etc., and it is also popular as a support song for life. (TSURUMI Sachiyo)

• Tsurumi Sachiyo
• Women's Choir September Wind
• Kuriyama Fumiaki
• TANAKA EMI
• Saiki Yuri
• Sunaga Mami

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