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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Chiho Iuchi</title>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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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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