Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HARVARD-RADCLIFFE SUMMER THEATRE'S production of Alice in Concert is a glistening performance packed with energy and creativity. The cast explodes across the stage jumping and dancing as they sing the lyrics from Elizabeth Swados' musical interpretation of Lewis Carroll's long-time children's favorites--Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass...
...Alice in Concert transports the audience back to times when one believes everything one dreams, and dreams things that one hopes will come true. Moreover, the actors never succumb to the temptation of making this musical into a farce that would mock childhood tantasies. Rather they present the material with an earnestness that shows that they are enjoying themselves as much as the audience enjoys watching them...
Says Toyama, who also runs one of Tokyo's most active concert halls: "Our musicians excel technically, but I don't know if Japan has yet produced any master artists. When you play Western music, what is most important is interpretation. We have mastered the technique. Now we have to go on." So far, few Japanese musicians have achieved international prominence; the best known is Conductor Seiji Ozawa, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At home he leads the New Japan Philharmonic, but his career has been largely Western...
Indeed, it is Western, not traditional music, that has become the Japanese lingua franca. On television, the strains of Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro plug Suntory whisky, and a Strauss waltz is used as a background for a refrigerator-deodorizer ad. At a children's concert by the New Japan Philharmonic recently, more than 2,000 grade schoolers in the audience rose at the conductor's behest and, in two-part harmony, sang the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth...
That is the theme of Tetsuko's charming 1981 memoir, Totto-Chan, the Little Girl at the Window, which has sold an extraordinary 6 million copies, making it the bestselling book in Japanese history. The daughter of a father who was a concert violinist and a mother who trained as an opera singer, Tetsuko was thrown out of her rigid grammar school at the age of six because she liked to stand at an open window and chatter with the swallows and street musicians. She subsequently attended an experimental school in Tokyo that allowed her to blossom...