Philharmonic Orchestra Japan
The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra ( Japanese 公益 財 団 法人 日本 フ ィ ル ハ ー モ ニ ー 交響 楽 団 , Kōeki Zaidan Hōjin Nihon Firuhāmonī Kōkyō Gakudan , short: Nihon Phil ( 日本 フ ィ ル , Nihon Firu Orchestra in Tokyo Japanese Symphony)) is a . It was founded on June 22, 1956 exclusively for "Kulturradio Japan" ( 文化 放送 , Nippon Cultural Broadcasting ). The first permanent conductor was once Akeo Watanabe (1919–1990). The orchestra is a regular member of the Japanese Orchestra Association .
overview
The orchestra gives subscription and commissioned concerts and participates in opera performances. The subscription concerts take place regularly in the Tōkyō Bunka Kaikan .
As a first regular concert, the orchestra gave the 2nd Symphony by Jean Sibelius on April 4, 1957 in the Hibiya City Hall ( 日 比 谷 公会 堂 , Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya Public Hall ). In 1958, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy and the first symphony by Akio Yashiro were premiered under the conductor Jean Fournet . In 1959 the orchestra signed an exclusive contract with the broadcaster Fuji Television , for which it worked from then on. In 1964 the orchestra undertook a seven-month tour through the USA and Canada with Akeo Watanabe and Seiji Ozawa . Further concerts in Hawaii, Estonia and Holland follow.
In 1966 Japan Columbia produced the LP Dschungelkönig, a symphonic poem for children. In 1972 the contract with Fuji Television was terminated and Seiji Ozawa took over the management. In the same year a third of the musicians left the orchestra and founded the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa . This event is also known as the beginning of the "Nihon-Phil dispute" ( 日 フ ィ ル 争議 ). In 1973 the Philharmonic Association was founded, from which the orchestra's choir emerged in December. The dispute ended in 1985 with a compensation payment from Fuji Television and Kulturradio and the dissolution of the association.
In 1996 the administration of the orchestra moved to the Suginami district . In 1998 the orchestra moved its regular subscription concerts to the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama . Since it reopened in 2006, the orchestra has been giving concerts in the Suginami town hall.
Conductors
- Akeo Watanabe (conductor)
- Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- Ken'ichirō Kobayashi (conductor) followed Watanabe as chief conductor after his death in 1990. He was also the orchestra's music director from 2004 to 2007
- Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
- Pietari Inkinen (conductor), since September 2016
Former foreign conductors were: Charles Munch (conducted in 1962, the 9th Symphony of Beethoven ), Igor Markevitch , Leopold Stokowski (1965 first concert at the Nippon Budokan ) and Antonio Janigro .
literature
- Siegfried Borris (Hrsg.): Musical life in Japan in the past and present . Bärenreiter, Basel / Kassel / New York 1967, OCLC 5149845 .
Web links
- 日本 フ ィ ル ・ サ ー ビ ス セ ン タ ー . Japan Philharmonic Orchestra,accessed February 25, 2017(Japanese).
Remarks
- ^ Also Japanese Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, after Borris: Musikleben in Japan , p. 69
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borris: Musikleben in Japan , p. 70