「PIANO DISTANCE」Mana FUKUI Piano Recital

In ancient Greece, music was divided into two categories: music with an established style and music without. Knowledgeable and educated people forbade such senseless and unmusical things as whistling, crowd murmuring, and clapping. Music was something to be listened to quietly and thereby gain knowledge. Music represented the harmony of the universe played by the movement of the heavens, and to perceive the stars, the sun, the planets, and the sounds that rippled that harmony was to understand the philosophical description of the universe.

Later, the development of polyphonic tuned music from the 17th to the 19th century, which pursued joyful harmony by ear, was an affront to the idea of "ethos of style" (music has a moral dimension, and the human spirit depends on it) established in Plato's time.

Modern music, freed from the shackles of polyphony by the dodecaphony of the twelve-tone technique in the 20th century, may express the correlation between the universe and the spirit that the ancients tried to perceive.


[Programme]

Tôru TAKEMITSU (1930 - 1996)
Piano distance (1961)
Les yeux clos ll (1989)
Litany in memory of Michael Vyner (1990)
Rain tree sketch (1982)
For away (1973)

Masakazu YAMAMOTO (1975 - )
Tomoshibi (2009)

Wataru IWATA (1973 - )
Nostalgia (2018)

[Piano]
Mana FUKUI
While teaching at the Conservatoire de Musique de Clamart in France, she has been performing as a pianist for about 20 years throughout Europe. In 2015, she moved her base to Japan and has been also actively working on collaborations with various fields such as dance and visuals, not only music.


Organized by MuseuM Concert Series
Co-hosted with Objet α