PROGRAM NOTE

笑う門
mirth

「笑う門には福来る」... 私は、厳しい状況にこそ「笑顔」が必要であると感じていた...また、「福来る」の「福」は「福島」にも通ずる。今回mmm...より呼びかけを頂いた時に、このタイトルは全く自然に、私の中に現れてきたのだった。

The title "Mirth" comes from the Japanese proverb, "Warau kado ni wa fuku kitaru". “Warau” means laughing, smiling, any kind of mirth coming out of happiness (“fuku”). A “kado” is a gate, which implies family, groups, social gatherings, any sort of party. This proverb says that happiness comes wherever people laugh.

BIOGRAPHY

伊左治 直
Sunao Isaji

1968年生まれ。2008年制作のCDがレコード芸術、朝日新聞、読売新聞の推薦を受けたり、09年NHK-FMでの特集など、その評価は高い。国内外の委嘱も数多く、2010年と11年はNYにて2度の作品初演。日本現代音楽協会作曲新人賞、日本音楽コンクール第１位、芥川作曲賞、出光音楽賞受賞。

Born in 1968, Sunao Isaji lives in Tokyo, and is active as a composer and musician around the world. His 2008 CD was critically acclaimed in the pages of several major magazines. In 2009, NHK-FM had a two-week special program on his music. Isaji has won numerous awards; JSCM Composition Award, 1st prize at the Music Competition of Japan, the Akutagawa Award for Music Competition, and the Idemitsu Music Award. Recent commissions include pieces for “Music from Japan” in New York, for the Tuba Band and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, and for the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies in New York.

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fl/vn 2b


hibariプロジェクトのために書かれた曲。和声要素はジェームス・テニー作曲KOANに基づく。厳しい状況の日本に希望とサポートをもたらすであろうプロジェクトに、この曲が参加できることに感謝しています。

fl/vln2, written for the Hibari Project, is guided by harmonic structures of the violin part, which is a backwards fantasia on James Tenney's KOAN. I was touched to be asked to compose for a project intended to offer any kind of hope or support for Japan in the time following such tragedies.

BIOGRAPHY

ニコラス デヨ
Nicholas Deyoe

カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校音楽学部作曲家博士課程在籍中。これまでにアメリカだけでなく、カナダ、スイス、ドイツ、フランス、アイスランド、日本で作品が演奏される。音楽関係の幅広い交友関係から新作初演の指揮の機会も多く、レッド・フィッシュ・ブルーフィッシュ、ダルムシュタット現代音楽祭、ノイズ、北コロラド交響楽団の指揮をする。現ラ・ホヤ交響楽団副指揮者。

Nicholas Deyoe is a composer, conductor, and guitarist born in Colorado and currently living in Southern California. He is a Ph.D. candidate in composition at UC San Diego and studies with Roger Reynolds. Nicholas has conducted The La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, Red Fish Blue Fish, Ensemble Ascolta, The Darmstadt Preisträgerensemble, Noise, The University of Northern Colorado Symphony, Chamber, and Sinfonietta Orchestras, and several ad hoc ensembles in Colorado, California, and Germany. His music has been performed in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, Iceland, and Japan.