The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (TSO) opens its 2017/18 season on April 22 at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, but the performance will be lacking one crucial element during the opening piece: the orchestra.
Instead, the 48 members of the Tokyo Symphony Chorus (TSC) will take the stage in celebration of its 30th anniversary. In collaboration with cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and a few precussionists, the upcoming concert will feature contemporary Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina's "The Canticle of the Sun," which will be performed for the first time in Japan.
The amateur choir was established in 1987, an initiative of the TSO's then-General Manager Shigeto Kanayama.