（続き）パーヴォ @paavo_jarvi は記者会見でテーマ曲（菅野よう子作曲）について「フランス印象派のような抒情的なセンスを感じました。ラン・ラン @lang_lang 、N響とのコラボをお楽しみください」と語りました。（写真の中央は作曲者の菅野よう子さん。） pic.twitter.com/JHdTE3Ay5S
— NHK交響楽団 NHK Symphony (@NHKSO_Tokyo) December 5, 2016
Tanasonic, Yoko Kanno biggest concert
Tanabata is the Japanese star festival happening every year on July 7. For some reason Yoko Kanno chose this date in 2009 to celebrate her anime composer 15th anniversary. All the promotion and the event itself was around the number seven: the date, the ticket price, the start hour... And now let me … Continue Reading ››
Words or music is the same when expressing something
The CPRA (Center for Performers' Rights Administration) published an interview in October 2011. I actually wrote a very incomplete translation in 2011 and I found it back recently so I thought it was time to complete it! (lol)
That was 6 months after the big earthquake that ravaged Japan's Miyagi prefecture on March 11, … Continue Reading ››
Japanese History Simulation Games
While she was still a student, and before she joined the band Tetsu 100%, Yoko Kanno happened to be in charge of several KOEI Japanese history simulation games that became pretty popular.
She was merely 20 or 21 years old back then, and that's probably the first soundtracks she composed. She worked … Continue Reading ››
