Music from Japan 2019 Music Festival
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Music from Japan Promotion Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term
Business Overview
This is a continuation of the artist residency that Music from Japan started as a new trial in 2016. Music critics and composers from Japan and the United States were invited to attend lectures, forums, and concerts during their one-week stay in New York City to contribute to mutual understanding and artistic enlightenment between the participants from both countries. 1) Composition Seminar “Yumi Saiki: An Approach to Composition and Introduction to Her Original Work ”2) Symposium“ Japan and the United States: Composers and Critics Living in Contemporary Society Part 4 ”3) Lecture “John Cage in Japan ... Shock and Later ”Miyuki Shiraishi (musicologist and critic) 4) Concert I“ Concert with Miyuki Shiraishi's Selected Music ”/Forum I 5) Concert II “Yumi Saiki's Personal Exhibition ”/Forum II
- Period of Activity / Project
- Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – Sunday, March 3
- Venues
- Columbia University Dodge Hall, the Japan Foundation New York Japanese Cultural Center, and Scandinavian House Victor Borge Hall (all in New York, USA)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【 Music From Japan Promotion Executive Committee 】
A voluntary organization established in New York to promote the business of Music From Japan, Inc., which introduces Japanese contemporary music, classical and contemporary Japanese music to the United States and the world. Over the past 40 years, the company has commissioned music from corporate composers and has held concerts and educational programs in New York, Washington DC, the United States, Latin America and Central Asia.