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| Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, which will be celebrated for the 22nd time this summer, features a wide variety of orchestra concerts, operas, chamber concerts and workshops, programs for children and many other events. It was founded and is centered on the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which performs at it every year. The orchestra and festival are named to commemorate the memory of a music teacher who was also co-founder of the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Hideo Saito. The orchestra had its birth in 1984 when his former students assembled from around the globe to perform a concert on the 10th anniversary of his death. They continued working and touring together, and in 1992 the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto was founded.The festival is also directed by a student of Saito, Seiji Ozawa, and the world-renowned artists who have participated in the festival over the years are innumerable. In particular Mstislav Rostropovich, Toru Takemitsu and Robert Mann have been frequent guests. |
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