Sokyoku "Rokudan" and Gregorian chant "Credo" Italy Performance 2012

Business Overview

Based on a theory presented at the Japanese Society of Music by Tatsuo Minagawa that the original sokyoku “Rokudan ” was the Gregorian chant“ Credo ” introduced by a Christian missionary who visited Japan in the 16 century, the sokyoku will be performed in practice at the World Society of Music and a church in Rome, the home of Catholicism. [Performers and Staff] Tatsuo Minagawa (Opening lecture, conducting) Medieval Chorus Misoju Nosaka, Mizuyo Komiya (koto) Toshiko Kubota (commentary) Taku Nakajima (instrumental coordination) Yoshio Kawaguchi (stage director) Fumio Hattori (audio and video recording) So Fujimoto (production supervisor)

implementation period

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 – Thursday, July 5

Place of implementation

Concert 1: Basilica of Santa Plassede (Rome, Italy) Concert 2: Chapel of San Francesco (Rome, Italy) Concert 3: Auditorium Parco de la Musica (Rome, Italy)

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Profile

[Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Culture]
It was established for the purpose of conducting public works through the investigation, recording, preservation, and disclosure of traditional Japanese culture and folk performing arts. The company established a sound source archive to make the best use of its tradition in the future, and has been working on projects in the educational and artistic genres beyond the framework of record makers.
With an eye to the future of our country's traditional culture, the project aims to disseminate and promote traditional culture through research, recording, preservation and disclosure of outstanding skills in handling intangible cultural properties and folk cultural properties that are in danger of decline, as well as to foster successors, introduce outstanding traditional culture overseas, and promote international exchange.