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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Chiho Iuchi</title>
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		<title>Seiji Ozawa ends summer on high note</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classical music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe reportedly once said “God is in the details.” Conductor Seiji Ozawa would literally agree. He meets The Japan Times at a cafe he frequents in Tokyo’s Seijo district. ]]></description>
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		<title>Seiji Ozawa makes a triumphant return to Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junko Onishi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing like a comeback story. This summer, Japan saw a return to the stage by Seiji Ozawa, one of the country&#8217;s most celebrated musicians. On Aug. 23, the 78-year-old maestro took up his baton at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, the event he founded and directs. It was his first appearance on the podium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing on people, not just words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[English interpreters in Japan may often be regarded as those who convert English into Japanese or vice versa. However, Mutsumi Katayama, who has worked for more than 20 years as a freelance professional interpreter, focuses more attention on interpersonal communication. &#8220;I ask people questions to understand them,&#8221; Katayama said. &#8220;I want to work for them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bell tolls on Demon Pond</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of the temple bell of &#8220;Yashagaike (Demon Pond)&#8221; will ring for the first time at the New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) &#8212; but it&#8217;s the bell&#8217;s silence that will reverberate for the characters of this new Japanese-language opera. The story of &#8220;Yashagaike&#8221; was first told in a play by Japanese author Kyoka Izumi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JICA helps Africans develop their future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 16:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), an independent governmental agency that coordinates official development assistance (ODA) for the government, has played an important role for the country in its relations with foreign nations. The following is the story of a JICA staff member who worked from 2007 to 2009 in the Democratic Republic of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama continues to foster close African ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 16:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa returns to Yokohama in the form of the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V), which is being held through June 3. Since the Port of Yokohama opened in 1859, which marked the end of Japan&#8217;s isolation during the Edo Period (1603-1867), Yokohama rapidly developed as a major city for international trade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU delegation&#8217;s educational programs for Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/09/world/eu-delegations-educational-programs-for-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eu-delegations-educational-programs-for-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the emphasis on people-to-people exchanges and the increasing demand for human resources with international mind-sets, the Delegation of the European Union to Japan offers some academic opportunities for the young generation in Japan who will be the opinion leaders in the future. The EU school projects The seventh EU Comes to Your School project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europa House one-day event opens doors to all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Delegation of the EU to Japan will open its premises to the public during the Europa House Open Day event on May 25. Since the delegation moved from its previous location in the Sanbancho area of Chiyoda Ward to its new premises in the Minami-Azabu district of Minato Ward in August 2011, Europa House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muza Kawasaki marks grand return</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muza Kawasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Symphony Orchestra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has returned to its home at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall. The orchestra was homeless for two years after the hall in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. On the afternoon of April 7, a capacity audience at Muza held their breath as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classical community unites to celebrate bicentennials of Verdi and Wagner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenichiro Mogi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MET Live]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NNTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parsifal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wagner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the bicentennials of the births of two great composers: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and Richard Wagner (1813-83), both giants of the classical music world who brought opera to the peak of its artistic expression in the 19th century. There will be a number of celebrations and events to commemorate the bicentennials in Japan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspirational walk across Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Negative: Nothing&#8221; a documentary film on the odyssey of a Swiss man who walked the length of Japan, will again be screened in Tokyo this month. After becoming unemployed when his clients cancelled their trips to Japan in the wake of the disasters of March 11, 2011, Zurich-based travel agent Thomas Koehler, 45, began a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choral tribute to March 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[choir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coinciding with the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tokyo Opera City will be filled with the powerful voices of Japanese choir group Ritsuyukai, featuring new Japanese choral works. Comprising 15 amateur choirs under the direction of Japanese conductor Fumiaki Kuriyama, Ritsuyukai has often collaborated with professional orchestras. Its series of monme concerts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a living using foreign language skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What would it be like to make a living using foreign language skills as a freelance professional? Missa Takahashi, an interpreter and translator of English, French and Italian, shares how she established her career, expanded her work and deepened her understanding of language and culture. Although Takahashi was good at English while at a Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pianist Yazawa looks to the past to find security in the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tomoko Yazawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pianist Tomoko Yazawa always thinks about her music with the future in mind. However, for her latest album, &#8220;Playing in the Dark,&#8221; she made a rare diversion into the past &#8212; specifically, France at the end of the 19th century. Although Yazawa was classically trained at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Driftwood&#8217; duet to be the first of its kind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adrian Justus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driftwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great East Japan Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muneyuki Nakazawa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yuriko Kuronuma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first duets on two &#8220;driftwood&#8221; violins are being performed in Japan by leading Mexican violinist Adrian Justus and his teacher, Yuriko Kuronuma, a Mexico-based Japanese violinist. When the two artists visited master luthier Muneyuki Nakazawa&#8217;s workshop in Tokyo in December 2011 to have Justus&#8217; violin repaired, Nakazawa had just begun making violins from driftwood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight seasons from Slovakia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening 2013 on a cultured note, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra (SCO) tours Japan from Jan. 5 through Jan. 18. Founded by violinist and then Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra concertmaster Bohdan Warchal (1930-2000) in 1960, SCO has developed into one of the most popular groups in Slovakia&#8217;s classical-music community, as well as the principal representatives in introducing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring, rediscovering fine arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While much has changed since Japan last hosted the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in 1964 &#8212; a year that symbolized the nation&#8217;s achievement of reconstruction after World War II through the hosting of the meeting and the Summer Olympics &#8212; art has always reflected, reviewed and foreseen the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tokyo Foundation hosts concert by young victims of Tohoku quake at Suntory Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the final chord of the fiery Spanish-flavored &#8220;El Camino Real&#8221; by U.S. composer Alfred Reed echoed throughout Suntory Hall, it was a great moment for 16-year-old Mayuko Kawai. &#8220;I was thrilled by the audience&#8217;s stormy applause,&#8221; she says. Kawai wasn&#8217;t in the crowd, though, she was on stage with the Michinoku Wind Orchestra, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drummers hope to support earthquake victims</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/03/09/events/drummers-hope-to-support-earthquake-victims/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=drummers-hope-to-support-earthquake-victims</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many artists that watched the destruction of the Great East Japan Earthquake a year ago have said in media interviews that they&#8217;ve struggled with how to interpret the disaster. The taiko (drum) troupe at the International Christian University is no different. The students titled their performance &#8220;Shichitenbatto,&#8221; which is an old Japanese saying that literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quake-stricken orchestra plays on in style</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/12/08/music/quake-stricken-orchestra-plays-on-in-style/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=quake-stricken-orchestra-plays-on-in-style</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra faced a setback this year after Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, effectively leaving the musicians homeless. When Muza&#8217;s ceiling caved in, most of the acoustics-enhancing materials, lighting and air conditioning came crashing to the ground. The cost of repairs is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dvorak opera to make debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Czech composer Antonin Dvorak&#8217;s (1841-1904) symphonies, such as Symphony No. 9 &#8220;From the New World,&#8221; are well known to Japanese audiences. However, his operatic works have not been performed that often in Japan. This month, the opera &#8220;Rusalka&#8221; will be staged at the New National Theater, Tokyo, for the first time. Based on Czech fairy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludovit Kanta&#8217;s 20th year in Japan Memorial Concert</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/06/23/music/ludovit-kantas-20th-year-in-japan-memorial-concert/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ludovit-kantas-20th-year-in-japan-memorial-concert</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Slovakian cellist Ludovit Kanta plans to celebrate his 20th anniversary in Japan with a special concert in his adopted hometown of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. Born in Bratislava, 53-year-old Kanta studied cello at Bratislava Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Then, after performing as principal cellist with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra for eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s voices soothe Iwate survivors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As survivors from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami sat in evacuation centers across Iwate Prefecture on March 19, support came from a surprising source. Amid the steady flow of information from the radio, a children&#8217;s choir began singing. The song they sang was called &#8220;Sora Yori Takaku (Higher Than the Sky)&#8221; and it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo classical music benefit to boost spirits and awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the March 11 earthquake, it&#8217;s been difficult for the classical music scene, with many venues having to cancel or postpone performances. Amid this period of readjustment, world-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta is returning to Japan to conduct a Tohoku-Kanto earthquake charity concert to be held in Ueno, Tokyo, on April 10. Mehta was in Tokyo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New National Theatre, Tokyo, hopes &#8216;Yuzuru&#8217; will help Japanese opera soar</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/01/21/stage/new-national-theatre-tokyo-hopes-yuzuru-will-help-japanese-opera-soar/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-national-theatre-tokyo-hopes-yuzuru-will-help-japanese-opera-soar</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka  and Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Imitation may be a form of flattery, but it is also an important first step for creative genesis. The 1952 premiere of &#8220;Yuzuru&#8221; by Ikuma Dan &#8212; half imitation of Western operatic traditions and half Japanese creative innovation &#8212; marked a milestone in the development of opera in Japan. Since the early part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese pianist touts the sounds of Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese pianist Shizuka Shimoyama and Slovakian cellist Ludovit Kanta will bring the culture of Spain to Tokyo next week. Shimoyama says it is something that has been lacking. &#8220;Despite many impressive pieces, Spanish music has not been included in Japan&#8217;s music-education curriculum,&#8221; says Shimoyama, who studied at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soprano Jaho insists the show will go on</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When experiencing the drama of the opera, it&#8217;s rare that an audience gets to witness the drama of an individual performer. However, that was the case with Elmonera Jaho at the Kanagawa Kenmin Hall in Yokohama on Sept. 12, the opening day of &#8220;La Traviata&#8221; by Britain&#8217;s Royal Opera House (ROH). The Albanian soprano had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The life of U.S. conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) is being feted in Japan with the performance of his masterpiece, &#8220;Candide,&#8221; under the baton of Japanese conductor Yutaka Sado, one of Berstein&#8217;s pupils, in collaboration with Canadian director Robert Carsen. &#8220;This satire was born from anger,&#8221; says Carsen. Although unsuccessful when it premiered on Broadway in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEIJI OZAWA: Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto will be world- renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa&#8217;s first performance since January, following his diagnosis with esophageal cancer. Thanks to prompt treatment, the maestro is due to recover in time for the annual music event that he founded in 1992. Ozawa will conduct the Saito Kinen Orchestra in two programs, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost-cutting brings classics to the masses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiho Iuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Rather than managing an opera house, I wanted to create a &#8216;structure&#8217; for a new event,&#8221; says French producer Rene Martin in a book published in Japan last month titled &#8220;How a Classical Music Festival Gathered 1 Million People.&#8221; After being inspired by the excitement of 35,000 young fans at a U2 concert, Martin launched [...]]]></description>
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