■About Performance
The Waseda University Symphony Orchestra 1989 World Tour is the Waseda University Symphony Orchestra’s fifth overseas performance tour. From December 1988 and February to March 1989, 19 performances in 10 countries around the world (at the time) were held. We planned and implemented the event with a big desire to show people a different side of the story. *The performance in the Philippines on December 19th and 20th was attended by then President Aquino, and the simultaneous performance was recorded and broadcast throughout the Philippines by Manila National Broadcasting System.
■Concert Overview
| Place | Concert Hall |
|---|---|
| ◇Republic of the Philippines | |
| Manila | Cultural Center of the Philippines |
| ◇Japan | |
| Tokyo | Shinjuku Bunka Center |
| ◇France | |
| Palis | Salle Pleyel |
| ◇Germany | |
| Berlin | Schauspielhaus(Konzerthaus Berlin) |
| Berlin | Philharmonysaal |
| Hannover | Studio of Norddeutscher Rundfunk |
| Düsseldorf | Tonhalle |
| Frankfurt | Jahrhunderthalle |
| Mülheim | Stadttheater |
| Leipzig | Gewandhaus |
| München | Herkulessaal |
| ◇Netherlands | |
| Amsterdam | Concertgebouw |
| ◇Switzerland | |
| Luzern | KunstHaus |
| ◇Austria | |
| Wien | Winer Musikverein |
| Salzburg | Mozarteum |
| ◇England | |
| London | Barbican Centre |
| ◇The USA | |
| Boston | Symphony Hall |
| New York | CarnHallegie Hall |
| Chicago | Orchestra |
■Conductors
- Ken Takaseki
- Kazuhumi Yamashita
■Program
- Maki Ishii / “ Mono-prism” for Japanese Drums and Orchestra
- Takanobu Saito/Imayou
- Yuzo Toyama/Rhapsody for Orchestra
- Toru Takemitsu/”Star-isle ” for Orchestra
- Stravinskiy/”The rite of spring”
- Respighi/Pines of Rome
- Weber/Concerto No 1 In F Minor Op. 73
- Dvorak/Overture to “Carnival”
- Brahms/Concerto for violin and cello
- Bruch/Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor
- Mozart/Serenade No.10 K.361 “Gran Partita”
- J. Strauss/Radetzky March
- Ravel/Piano Concerto in G minor
- Anderson/A Christmas Festival
■Solists
- Toru Yasunaga/Violin
- Ottomar Borwitzky/Cello
- Harumi Hanafusa/Piano
- John Browning/Pianoovervei
- Isabelle van Keulen/Violin
- Hiromi Sugihara/Clarinet
