10/6/2000
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When I opened drapes of my bedroom before six
o'clock in morning, I saw a rising sun after a few weeks. At
first it looked like a red disc. When I came back with a camera,
the sun began to shine in white. |
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The September subscription concert of NHK Symphony
Orchestra was held this evening. Maestro Eugene Svertlanov conducted
fragments from ballet music by Tchaikovsky, doll nut crackers
and swan lake. But they were not popular one but manigficient
symphonic tunes. The music was rather complicated one which required
fine concentration of players. The highly charged atomospher
of players impressed the audience. Meanwhile he tried to relieve
the tensions by introducing the Tokyo Girls and Boys Chorus Group.
The audience was on their way back by praising the concerto severally. |
The sound effect of NHK hall is not so good
that sometimes I cannot get music sound at my seat on the second
floor even though the hands of players are moving fast. But this
evening I could catch solo pianissimo of triangle well. I found
that the orchestra players were pushed out to the front by two
rows which were reserved for the chorus group.
A little boy was waiting for someone iperhaps
his parents) wearing a short pant and having a school satchel
on back when I exited from the front gate after the concerto finished.
When I talked to him, he said that he was a member of chorus which
sang at the concerto. He is a first grade student of middle school.
The chorus has more girls than boys. He is one of elites of music
selected through highly competitive audition. In near future,
he might become a great artist, I imagined.
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