ANÚNA
"Snow Woman" Fantasy ~Mystical Chorus and Noh Dance~ [English]


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ANÚNA "Snow Woman" Fantasy ~Mystical Chorus and Noh Dance~



Celtic Christmas 2024
ANÚNA "Snow Woman" Fantasy ~Mystical Chorus and Noh Dance~


[sun] 7th Dec. in Sumida, TOKYO Venue:Sumida Triphony Hall [Main hall]
Open 4:45pm / Start 5:30pm

ANÚNA (Celtic Choir)
Guest
(Noh Actor) Reijiro Tsumura
(Sho Player) Tamami Tono
(Ohtsudumi Player) Mitsuhiro Kakihara

Ticket:
[Early bird rate] apply until June 30th.
S-seat [Early bird rate] JPY8700 / A-seat JPY 8500 / B-seat JPY 6900
Under 25years old JPY3800
BUY TICKET https://anuna-2024-triphonyhall.peatix.com/

[Regular price] July 20th on sale.
S-seat JPY 9200 / A-seat JPY 8500 / B-seat JPY 6900
Under 25years old JPY3800
*Preschool children are not allowed to enter.

Ticket release date: [sat]20th Jul.
Plankton https://plankton.co.jp/ticket.html
Triphony Hall Ticket Center https://www.triphony.com
Ticket Pia [P-code: 271-758] https://t.pia.jp/
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Organized by Earth Music Project Committee
Co Organized by Sumida Triphony Hall
Backing by Embassy of Ireland
Supported by Culture Ireland, KANSAI・OSAKA 21st Century Association
Cooperated by Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Irish Network Japan, THE MUSIC PLANT

Ticket

[Early bird rate] apply until June 30th.
S-seat [Early bird rate] JPY8700 / A-seat JPY 8500 / B-seat JPY 6900
Under 25years old JPY3800
BUY TICKET https://anuna-2024-triphonyhall.peatix.com/

[Regular price] July 20th on sale.
S-seat JPY 9200 / A-seat JPY 8500 / B-seat JPY 6900
Under 25years old JPY3800
*Preschool children are not allowed to enter.

Ticket release date: [sat]20th Jul.
Plankton https://plankton.co.jp/ticket.html
Triphony Hall Ticket Center https://www.triphony.com
Ticket Pia [P-code: 271-758] https://t.pia.jp/
e+ https://eplus.jp/

Artist Profile

ANÚNA

Anúna is a mixed male/female choir founded by composer Michael McGlynn in 1987 in Dublin, Ireland, with the concept of "bringing medieval Irish music to life in the modern age. The group has been nominated for a Grammy Award for its former works, and is active internationally. They have also been featured in Riverdance. They have visited Japan six times and performed the highly acclaimed Celtic Noh play "The Hawk Princess" at the Orchard Hall in 2017. With lyrics in Gaelic, Latin, and English, the performance transcends time and space to bring poetry and music from more than 1,000 years ago into the modern world. Incorporating elements of medieval religious songs, chants, folk songs, Gregorian chants, Greek choruses, and contemporary music, the mysterious, transparent, and miraculous chorus creates a picturesque beauty that brings comfort to the listener.
https://anuna.ie/

Anúna : Noel Nouvelet (arr. Michael McGlynn)



Anuna : Sanctus [Michael McGlynn]




Guest Profile

(Noh Actor)
Reijiro Tsumura
Reijiro Tsumura, born in 1942, is a Noh performer of the Shite of the Kanze school and an authority on Noh dance, and was certified as a holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1991. In addition to classical Noh, he actively collaborates with other genres such as new Noh (Kaguyahime, Othello, etc.), Japanese instruments, Western music, and opera, and based on Noh dance and chanting, has developed unique expressions and expanded his creative activities. In 2015, a documentary film, "The Dancing Traveler: A Portrait of Reijiro Tsumura, Nohgaku Master," was screened, showing the appeal and expressive possibilities of Noh to a wide audience.
Now in his 80s, Tsumura is still an extraordinary Noh performer who energetically performs overseas in Europe and Asia, and his unique expression of "yugen (mystery)" is described in his dancing.
http://www.ryokusenkai.net/profile.html



(Sho Player)
Tamami Tono
Sho player Tamami Tono has been taking a cutting-edge approach in her performance of Gagaku (ancient Japanese court music) based at the National Theatre of Japan, as well as in her attempts to connect the ancient sounds of Gagaku to contemporary creation. She has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tamami Tanaka, and others, and has also experimented with ancient instruments and even computers. The sho is regarded as the oldest reed instrument in history. The instrument originated in prehistoric Asia, developed in China, and was brought to Japan. It is a musical instrument that produces celestial tones.
https://shoroom.com/



(Ohtsudumi Player)
Mitsuhiro Kakihara
Mitsuhiro Kakihara, born in 1972.
Second son of the late Takashi Kakihara. Important intangible cultural property (general certification) holder.
Message


This is Anúna’s 8th visit to Japan since 2005. This year is the large tour of Anúna in Japan. They are going to play in north city, Sapporo, Hokkaido, and other new locations such as Shizuoka, Aichi, and Kanagawa this time.
Anuna release the new album "Other World" this June in Japan. They are the choral group representing Ireland, and revive the music of medieval Ireland to the present day and sing Celtic mysteries. Many of the songs are about spirits that dwell in nature or people's passions, and the theme is the same ethereal world as in Japanese Noh.

Anúna has a diverse repertoire ranging from medieval Irish chants to popular traditional songs and original songs with lyrics in Gaelic, English, Latin and Iceland. Their unique musicality and the mysterious, transparent beauty of the chorus will captivate Japanese audiences as well as in Europe.
In 2017, they performed Celtic Noh Takahime in Tokyo. Recently they are also active for Japanese game music participating in the game "Xenogears Soundtrack" "Chrono Cross" and "Xenoblade Chronicles 2 & 3", In 2023 the singer of Anuna sang the theme song of the game "Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Devil". The view of the game world is fantasy connected with Irish imagination.
We hope the tour will get new audience of game fantasy world.

Specially this time Anúna will have a collaboration with Noh (Japanese old tradition) and Sho (Japanese old traditional instrument) in Tokyo. The theme is Yuki-onna (Snow Woman) written by Yakumo Koizumi, Irish writer who naturalized in Japan about 100 years ago.
Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn), a very well-known writer of ghost stories in Japan, lived in Japan from 1890, fascinated by Japanese culture and tradition, wrote Japanese ghost stories and published many works to connect this world with the other world.
"Yuki-onna" is a story full of mystical beauty where reality and otherworldly souls intertwine, which is the same spirit of Irish fairy story.
The stage is ceremonial, and unlike a normal chorus group, Anuna wear medieval Celtic costumes and performs with ritualistic movements. A large number of candles are lined up on the stage, creating a different world. This is the same idea as firewood Noh and candlelight Noh. In both Japan and Ireland, fire is thought to connect this world and the next. Noh performer Reijiro Tsumura, an authority on Noh dance, will perform a "Yuki-Onna" with an ethereal beauty, which embodies the spirit of Celtic mysticism.
The fusion of these authentic international arts: Celtic vocal music, Japanese Noh and Gagaku, will make a special collaboration.

Irish fairies are a fantasy born of human imagination. In the world of Japanese Noh, the souls, passions, and grudges of the dead from another world are depicted, and the residents of the other world (oni, kami, tengu, ghosts, etc.) appear.
These two different imaginations are actually the fundamental human sensibilities of seeing and feeling the invisible world.
The collaboration express the "Yugen" (mistery) on stage with the theme of "Yuki-onna".
Japan and Ireland are located at the western and eastern ends of Eurasia. We both have deep-rooted beliefs in nature and animism, and share a worldview of "mystery" and "ethereal". Irish/Celtic thought and ancient Japanese thought have a common and precious perspective of respecting the gods in nature. Celtic spiral patterns (Gyre) are just similar to those of the Jomon period (from tens of thousands years ago to the 3rd century BC) in Japan.

The fusion of the two arts, Anúna and Japanese Noh & Gagaku, will express deep similarity on philosophy of two cultures, Ireland and Japan. This occasion of Anuna tour will make culture exchange and make more understanding between two countries.


Producer
Keiko Kawashima


[sun] 7th Dec. in Sumida, TOKYO
Venue:Sumida Triphony Hall [Recital hall] (1F)
Recital hall event held on the same day
"The Mystical of "ANÚNA" and "Snow Woman""

Ticket JPY3000
Open 2:00pm
2:15~3:10pm Documentary Films "Behind the Closed Eye"
3:20~3:50pm "Story of Snow Woman" (Illustration, Narration and Cello)
Cello: Hiromichi Sakamoto
3:55~4:40pm Talk "The story of Yakumo Koizumi/Lafcadio Hearn and his "Snow Woman"" Talk: Bon Koizumi (Great-grandson of Lafcadio Hearn)
*Preschool children are not allowed to enter.

Ticket release date: [sat]20th Jul.
Plankton https://plankton.co.jp/ticket.html
Triphony Hall Ticket Center https://www.triphony.com

Access
Sumida Triphony Hall
Main hall(2F) / Recital hall (1F)
Address: 1-2-3, Kinshi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0013 JAPAN
TEL: 03-5608-1212
*5 minutes walk from JR "Kinshicho" Station.
https://www.triphony.com/access/







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