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Aim of the Festival
The classical music that we listen to nowadays has once been fostered in Europe's churches and saloons of the past's royalties and aristocrats. Even for the later generations this music stayed reserved to the privileged few of these societies.
In spite of such an era, there have always been the minstrels and troubadours who made music in the streets and on the squares. By singing about the joys and sorrows of life, the common people easily identified with these musicians.
The songs and dances of the people were rooted in the creation itself and, in a way uniquely their own, transmit the dynamic of 'Mother Earth' and a sort of joie de vivre to our modern society.
During this year's Tokyo Summer Festival we hope that you will take the opportunity to get in touch with the dynamic music and dance born out of the very earth and cultivated in the streets and squares and take the time to come away from the mechanical and artificial sounds that fill our daily lives.
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"Doumdoumba[dance of strong men]"
Illustration by TOSHIKI SAWADA, Photo by AKIHIKO IIMURA |
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Organization:
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Arion-Edo Foundation / Asahi Shimbun
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Support:
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Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. / BNP PARIBAS Securities (Japan) Ltd. / NTT DoCoMo, Inc. / ORIX Corporation /
Kajima Corporation / Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. / Takenaka Corporation /
TV Asahi Corporation Co., Ltd. / Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. / Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
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Sponsorship:
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Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (July 5 "Ivry Gitlis, Mario Brunello and Michie Koyama" /
July 27 "Mozart's concertos for Violin and for Clarinet")
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Co-sponsorship /
Co-organization:
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Asahi Breweries, Ltd. (July 7-10 ¡ÈBreak£äance Workshops with Black Blanc Beur¡É) /
SHIBUYA-AX (July 11 ¡ÈBlack Blanc Beur for the 1st time in Japan!¡É) /
Nippon Steel Arts Foundation & Japan Traditional Cultures Foundation
(July 12, July 13 ¡ÈThe Soul of Simauta of Amami Islands - The Art of Kazuhira Takesita¡É) /
Nippon Steel Arts Foundation & Japan Traditional Cultures Foundation
(July 13 ¡ÈDai Miyata: Cello Recital¡É) /
Musashino Cultural Foundation (July 22 ¡ÈVivaldi's Four Seasons Reinvented by Gilles Apap¡É)
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Assistance:
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Agency for Cultural Affairs /
Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Embassy of Italy / Embassy of France /
Embassy of the Republic of Senegal / J-WAVE
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Financial Support:
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Japan Arts Fund / The Japan Foundation / Foundation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa /
Asahi Beer Arts Foundation / The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences /
The Mitsubishi Trust Foundation for the Arts / Rohm Music Foundation /
The Nomura Cultural Foundation
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Cooperation:
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Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd./ Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo /
TV Asahi Social Welfare Organization / Ongaku-no-tomo Sha Co., Ltd. / Asahi Culture Center /
Earth Garden / All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
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Artistic Director:
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Kyoko EDO
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Planning: |
Arion-Edo Foundation
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Production:
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Executive Committee of Tokyo Summer Festival
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Planning & Production Coordinator:
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Sakae ARITA
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- Special Performance: Mozart's concertos for Violin and for Clarinet (July 27, Kioi Hall)
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Organization:
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Arion-Edo Foundation
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Special Support:
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Asahi Shimbun
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Sponsorship:
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Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
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Financial Support:
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Asahi Shimbun Foundation
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