ケント・ナガノ、青学オケを振る - Kent Nagano at Aoyama

昨日は青山学院講堂での東日本震災復興支援チャリティ・コンサートに行った。急遽決まったケント・ナガノの学生オケとの協演だ。講堂は満員の盛況だった。ナガノの指揮するドヴォルザークの「新世界」は流麗という感じ。続いてバロックのフレージングに学生さんたちは不慣れなのかなという印象の「フーガの技法」、最後はメゾソプラノの藤村実穂子が日本の童謡5曲を歌った。自戒を込めて言わせてもらえば、アマチュアの演奏は音の出が曖昧で、旋律を歌い上げる自信みたいなものが不十分という傾向があって、それが分かる演奏だったが、マエストロの指揮に触れられるのは団員にとって貴重な経験で、素晴らしい企画だと思う。売り上げは全額、津波で流された岩手県大槌町の小中学校の楽器購入資金として寄付されるそうだ。


I went to Supporting Charity Concert for East Japan Disaster yesterday at Aoyama Gakuin University auditorium. Kent Nagano decided to conduct the student orchestra during his short visit, and the auditorium was fully packed. Nagano’s interpretation of Dvorak No.9 was very elegant. With the following piece of Bach’s “the Art of Fugue”, my impression was that the students were not much familiar with Baroque phrasing. And then Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo soprano, sang 5 Japanese songs for children to conclude this concert. I say this with my own experience but amateur players tend to be vague at the entry note of phrases and lack with confidence in their own to sing out the melodies proudly. I felt the same with the students. Nonetheless, this opportunity with the Maestro must have been a very precious moment for them. This was indeed a splendid project and the whole income will be donated to Ohtsuchi town in Iwate prefecture to buy music instruments for their elementary and middle schools where everything was washed away by tsunami.