Tokyo Summer Festival, 2007: "Towards the Islands –Sounds across the Sea"
The 23rd annual Tokyo Summer Festival is set to begin July 2. This five-week long international festival attracts outstanding artists from around the world. Organized by the Arion-Edo Foundation in cooperation with the Asahi Shimbun, it presents a different theme every year, and has been distinguished for being planned and presented entirely by professional musicians since it was launched in 1985. This year's festival will present 11 programs including concerts, folk performances and a symposium on the theme "Towards the Islands –Sounds across the Sea".
(from the Website of the Arion-Edo Foundation)
Since ancient times, islands floating all over the world's oceans and seas have been the passage route for traders, explorers and travellers. With the coming and going of the peoples, traces of different civilizations also passed by the islands, that became an encounter place where native and overseas cultures blend together.
This year's 23rd Tokyo Summer Festival is rowing through space and time to portray the music of various islands from around the globe.
Dan Ettinger
Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar
Main performances
Classical concerts:
<Special Participatory Performance>
Teatro Massimo di Palermo - Japan Tour 2007 “I Vespri Siciliani”
July 2 (Mon)
<Opening Concert>
Dan Ettinger, Tokyo Philharmonics & Shota Nakano
July 5 (Thu)
<Arion Young Talent Series>
Piano Double Recital with Ryoma Takagi & Tomoki Kitamura
July 26 (Thu)
World’s islands:
<Island of Fire and Ice: Iceland>
Jóhann Jóhannsson's World
July 10 (Tue), 11 (Wed)
<Caribbean Island>
Haitian Vodou Music and Dance
July 13 (Fri), 14 (Sat)
<Tanzanian Island>
The Music of Zanzibar: Taarab
July 19 (Thu)
Special Performance <Vocal & Guitar live>
Cuban's Pride Vicente Feliú
July 24 (Tue)
<Three masters of Cuban singing>
Vicente Feliú, Lázaro García, Augusto Blanca Cuban Nueva Trova Night
July 30 (Mon)
Tokyo’s islands:
<Tokyo's Islands I>
Local Religious Rituals and Folk Performance from Aogashima Island
July 15 (Sun), 16 (Mon - holiday)
<Tokyo's Islands II>
Dance and Ancient Chants from Ogasawara Islands and Palau
