Kiriku Tour Just Around the Corner

Posted on April 20, 2009
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Repost from Handbell-l

 

Well, I know everyone’s still coming off of their Easter high, but I wanted to remind you all that the Kiriku tour is only a week and a half away. With stops in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennysylvania, Massachusetts and Washington DC, this Japanese phenomenon is sure to blow your socks off!

 

For details on the exact concert locations and times, visit the Velocity Web site at www.velocitybells.org, or go directly to:

http://www.velocitybells.org/html/kiriku_tour_info.html

 

And if you haven’t yet seen this incredible video of their last US tour, take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQky4u72Fk&feature=related

 

If you live anywhere near the nine concert venues, we hope you’ll be able to join us. You won’t regret driving the extra miles or canceling your plans to come hear this amazing group.

 

By the way, I was asked to post the concert repertoire, so for those of you who are dying to know, here’s what the six (yeah, only six) ringers will be playing on their five octaves of bells:

 

 

2009 KIRIKU U.S.EAST COAST TOUR

 

PROGRAM

 

Song of the Seashore, Tamezo Narita

Ave Maria   , Franz Schubert

Selections from Pleiades Dances No. 4, Takashi Yoshimatsu

      Distant Dark Pastoral

      Dance Toward East

      Season of Alleluia

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, J.S. Bach, arr. Harvey Grace Rondo Alla Turca, W.A. Mozart, arr. Chiaki Tamagishi

 

INTERMISSION

 

Sakura Melody Fanfare, Japanese Folk Song, arr. Katsumi Kodama Nocturne No. 20, Op. Posth. In C Sharp Minor(Lento con gran espressione), Frédéric Chopin Birdcatcher’s Aria (from The Magic Flute), W. A. Mozart A Night with a Hazy Moon, Tei-ichi Okano, arr. Takashi Ohara Ave Maria, Guilio Caccini, arr. Chiaki Tamagishi

Csardas,    Vittorio Monti, arr. Chiaki Tamagishi

 

 

P.L. Grove, Artistic Director

Velocity Handbell Ensemble, sponsor of the 2009 Kiriku U.S. Tour of the East Coast

 

Special thanks to:

Malmark, also a tour sponsor

Gretchen Rauch/Scramble Hall, graphic artist and the many, many tour hosts and helpers who will be getting us from place to place over the next few weeks

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