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Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan's most venerable arts school, is having a series of events to mark its 120th anniversary. Of these, one upcoming concert of historical interest is especially noteworthy.
In 1879 the Japanese government established a department to study all matters pertinent to the establishment of a school of music. The institution that was to become the Tokyo School of Music was established the following year. Ten pianos were imported from the United States. It was the dawn of Western music studies in Japan. Distinguished artists began to emerge from the school, such as the sisters Nobu and Ko Koda (the former, a pianist and violinist, the latter, a pianist) and Rentaro Taki, who composed many songs in his brief lifetime that are still beloved.
The first subscription concert of Tokyo School of Music was held in 1898 in its Sogakudo Concert Hall. The same concert program will be performed in the same venue on February 20, 2008, and again on February 21 in the new Sogakudo Concert Hall that opened in 1998. Each performance will begin at 18:30.
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| Mozart |
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Ave Verum Corpus (motet) |
| J.S.Bach |
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Italian Concerto in F Major |
| Mozart |
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Violin Sonata in E minor |
| Kengyo Yatsuhashi |
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Rokudan-no-shirabe (Six-step koto piece) |
| Beethoven |
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The Glory of God in Nature |
| Handel |
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Largo |
| Anton Rubinstein |
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Ballet music and wedding procession from the opera, Feramors |
| Weinwurm |
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Songs of Tuscany (1 and 6) |
| J.S.Bach |
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Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor |
| Chopin |
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Scherzo No. 1 in B minor |
| Haydn |
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"God of Light," from The Seasons (oratorio) |
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