2015

December 24: Lecture Concert

Voice: Ai Kato
Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
• Nakada Yoshinao: Good Night
• Brahms: Lullaby
• Russian Folk Song: Little Light
• Dohnányi: Pastorale on a Hungarian Christmas Song
• Let's sing together!
  1. Morobito kozorite
  2. Silent Night
• Nakada Yoshinao: Snowy Town
• Converse: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• English Traditional Song: Greensleeves
• Francesco Sartori: Con Te Partirò

December 23: Christmas Student Concert

December 13: Christmas Piano and English Event

November 26: Lecture Concert

Voice: Ai Kato
Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Yamada Kousaku: Kaya no ki yama no
• Hirai Kousaburo: Narayama
• Stefano Donaudy: Spirate pur, spirate
• Mendelssohn: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
• Mozart: "Voi che sapete" from The Marriage of Figaro
• Let's sing together!
  1. Nakayama Shimpei: That town, this town
  2. Toyoda Giichi: Hana kage
  3. Hirota Ryutarou: Hamachidori
• Kiyoshi Nobutoki: Tanzawa no
• Hashimoto Kunihiko: Looking at Mount Fuji
• Stefano Donaudy: Amorosi miei giorni
• Offenbach: "Vois sous l'archet frémissant" from The Tales of Hoffman
• Lehár: The Merry Widow Waltz

November 1: Halloween Piano and English Event

September 30: Lecture Concert

Clarinet: Robert Borsos
Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Michele Mangani: Pagina d'album
• Nagayo Motoori: Bright, white moon
• Kousaku Yamada: This street
• Suguru Sasaki: Desert moon
• Toraji Oonaka: Coconut flesh
• Rentarou Taki: Moonlight over the Ruined Castle
• Schumann: Fantasy Pieces For Clarinet and Piano, Op.73 nos. I, II, III
• Let's sing together!
  1. Akatombo
  2. Mikannohanasakuoka
  3. Otomisan
• Monti: Czardas
• Fauré: Sicilienne
• Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin

August 30: Piano and English Event

August 27: Lecture Concert

Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin from Préludes Book I
• Mozart: Bread and Butter
• Debussy: Le petit Nègre
• Kabalevsky: Clowns
• Shostakovich: March
• Bartok: Joke
• Schubert: Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958: 1. Allegro
• Let's sing together!
  1. Mushi no koe
  2. Warewa uminoko
  3. Hamabe no uta
• Bortkiewicz: Consolation in D-flat, Op. 17 no. 4
• Bach: Aria from the Goldberg Variations
• Couperin: Le petit rien
• Bartok: For Children, no. 40 - Allegro vivace
• Yradier: La Paloma

July 30: Lecture Concert

Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Gluck: Mélodie from Orfeo ed Euridice
• Granados: Andaluza from 12 Spanish Dances
• Brahms: Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 no. 2
• Falla: Nocturne
• Let's sing together!
  1. Umi
  2. Furusato
  3. Warewa uminoko
• Chopin: Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major "Raindrop"
• Falla: Serenata andaluza
• Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor: 3. Largo

June 28: Piano and English Event

May 8: Lecture Concert

Voice: Ai Kato
Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Schumann: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai from Dichterliebe
• Dan Ikuma: Tabijou
• Handel: "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion" from The Messiah
• Brahms: Five Songs, Op. 105, No. 2 "Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer"
• Gluck: Che farò senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice
• Let's sing together!
  1. Ministry of Education: Koinobori
  2. Nakada Yoshinao: Summer memory
  3. Ministry of Education: Tea harvesting
• Hirai Kousaburo: Kujukurihama
• Verdi: Stride la vampa from Il Trovatore
• Ponchielli: Voce di donna o d'angelo from La Gioconda
• Kobayashi Hideo: Buckwheat flowers

April 19: Piano and English Event

March 27: Lecture Concert

Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons

• Schumann: Excerpts from Kinderszenen
  • 1. From Foreign Lands and Peoples
  • 2. A Curious Story
  • 4. Pleading Child
  • 5. Perfect Happiness
  • 6. An Important Event
  • 12. Child falling asleep
  • 7. Träumerei (Dreaming)
• Brahms: Rhapsody no. 2 in G minor
• Let's sing together!
  • Taki: Moon over a Ruined Castle
  • Dan: Flower Town
  • Yamada: Sakura, Sakura
  • Onaka: Coconut
• Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op.85 "In the old castle"
• Let's sing together!
  • Kitaguni no haru
  • Koukou san nensei
• Mozart: Fantasia in D minor
• Enescu: Pavane from Suite no. 2
• Ravel: Sonatine: II. Menuet

February 22: Piano and English Event

♩ Talk about Valentine's Day in America and Japan with Matt-sensei!
♩ Play a game in English!
♩ Play the piano pieces you've been practicing!

January 23: Lecture Concert

Bassoon: Gueorgui Chachikov
Piano: Yumiko Fitzgibbons