{"id":233,"date":"2009-11-13T22:46:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2025-03-16T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T08:06:20","slug":"japanese-mandolin-orchestra-meets-and-choir-voxmea-sakura-and-o-sole-mio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Japanese mandolin orchestra “meets” and choir “VoxMEA” – Sakura and O Sole Mio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Japanese mandolin orchestra meets<\/strong> has recently played a concert together with the mixed choir VoxMEA<\/strong>. The videos of this concert are now available at youtube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program was composed of four pieces for mandolin orchestra, a set of international folk songs for mandolin orchestra and choir and pieces for the choir. The folksongs included O Sole Mio<\/strong>, the famous Italian song as well as Sakura<\/strong>, the well known Japanese folk song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces for choir and orchestra were obviously new arrangements for this concert and sound very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The orchestra played very precise – as most of the Japanese mandolin orchestras do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very interesting concert, especially because this combination of mandolin orchestra and choir is not heard very often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have used google to translate the titels of the pieces from a list that can be found on the homepage of the meets orchestra:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 – Preludio Sinfonico \/ U. Bottakiari<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 – Grand Chaconne \/ Huzikake Hiroyuki<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 – Londonderry Air\/ Irish folk song  \/ arranged by  Kunisaku SAKAI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 – Camptown Races \/ American folk song \/ arranged by  Kunisaku SAKAI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 – Troika \/ Russian folk songs  \/ arranged by  Kunisaku SAKAI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 – O sole mio \/ Italy (Neapel), folk song \/ arranged by  Kunisaku SAKAI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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