The day after Daft Punk was the concert I had been rehearsing for every wednesday since I arrived in Nanyo City. My good friend Marie had told me about it, on hearing that I loved music and singing. We were performing a fairly recent Japanese work from a Nanyo City born composer about a Nanyo City folk story: Hakuryuko, or, The White-Dragon Lake.
It was a fantastic concert and I felt lucky to be singing with such a fantastic sounding choir - a combination of lots of different people around the city. The Yamagata city orchestra, a well-known orchestra around Japan with a respectable reputation accompanied us, the composer himself conducted us, and six of my friends from around Yamagata came to support me! I really enjoyed it and it was a great opportunity to meet many different people from around Nanyo. It was also funny to see me stand out so much amongst a bunch of Japanese people! I even stood out in the programme, with everyone else having Japanese characters for their name and me know as 'CHRISTOPHER P'.
Sadly, the choir was only created for that one concert but I have now found another choir in Takahata, the neighbouring town. They are a smaller choir, and not quite as strong - but singing is fun and they all seem to enjoy it and I just enjoy meeting all the new people! We're singing Mozart's Coronation Mass too - so I get to sing something that isn't Japanese for a change!
One of my friends in the audience, managed to record me and some of the concert, and he never told me! My parents randomly discovered it on youtube, so, for your entertainment, you can also watch a clip too!
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2 comments:
Chris this is awesome! Great music too!
It is quite funny to see you stand out...
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Em xx
Heheh thanks! I loved the music - got the whole CD of it too now!
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