{"id":408877,"date":"2022-12-21T23:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=408877"},"modified":"2022-12-21T23:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:50:05","slug":"unique-show-in-tokyo-japanese-musicians-sang-romanian-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/unique-show-in-tokyo-japanese-musicians-sang-romanian-carols\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique show in Tokyo: Japanese musicians sang Romanian carols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Between 6 and 11 December, a unique show was offered in Tokyo, Japan: 24 Japanese lyrical artists, led by two conductors from Romania, <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo.mae.ro\/local-news\/2366\">sang Romanian carols<\/a> in their original language, Romanian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project was initiated by Kazuko Shimada, President of the &#8220;Romanian Music Society in Japan&#8221; and benefited from the involvement of Dr Lumini\u021ba Gu\u021banu Stoian and Dr Stela Gu\u021banu, who conducted the choir during the rehearsals and the two concerts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hY0HSqREnT\">pic.twitter.com\/hY0HSqREnT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Embassy of Romania in Japan (@RO_Emb_Japan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RO_Emb_Japan\/status\/1602221740180279296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The concerts took place at the Bellesalle Toranomon Hall in Tokyo, in the presence of delegations from the Romanian Embassy and the Embassy of the Republic of Madagascar in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_406889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-406889\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-406889 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-3.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-3-668x890.jpg 668w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-406889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambassador Ovidiu Dranga and Kazuko Shimada, President of the Romanian Music Society in Japan. Photo source: Embassy of Romania in Tokyo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event was a world premiere in that the artists were Japanese and sang in Romanian, informs the Romanian Embassy in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_406883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-406883\" style=\"width: 1777px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-406883 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-2.jpg 1777w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-2-890x500.jpg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-406883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the rehearsals. Photo source: Embassy of Romania in Tokyo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr Lumini\u021ba Gu\u021banu Stoian is also the current Director and Principal Conductor of the Romanian Patriarchate&#8217;s <em>Symbol<\/em> Children&#8217;s Choir.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-408877 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='678x960' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-4.jpg 678w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-4-629x890.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='678x960' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-5.jpg 678w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/concert-de-colinde-in-limba-romana-cu-artisti-japonezi-5-629x890.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Photo source: Embassy of Romania in Japan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Follow us in Romanian on Telegram:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/basilicanews\">t.me\/basilicanews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 6 and 11 December, a unique show was offered in Tokyo, Japan: 24 Japanese lyrical artists, led by two conductors from Romania, sang Romanian carols in their original language, Romanian. The project was initiated by Kazuko Shimada, President of the &#8220;Romanian Music Society in Japan&#8221; and benefited from the involvement of Dr Lumini\u021ba Gu\u021banu&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":406892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4716,26944,10386,246,29182],"class_list":["post-408877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-en","tag-christmas-carols","tag-japan","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romania","tag-tokyo-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}