European Music in MeijiTaishoShowa Japan

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European Music in Meiji/Taisho/Showa Japan
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Gunkan March

• Imperial Japanese Navy Band
• 1909 recording
• Tokichi Setoguchi, composer
• Nipponophone The American Record labels
• Remastered by Masato Kubota, 2003

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Hibiya ParkMilitary bands give free concerts
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Department store bands

• Mitsukoshi (Nipponbashi) Youth Band, 1909
• (1921 photo)
• E.g. Carmen
• Nagoya Itoya, 1911
• 1912 Osaka Mitsukoshi Girls Band

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Asakusa road of cinemaTheater bands/orchestra
(e.g., Shochiku, Carmen, 1926)
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Asakusa opera link
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Takagi Tokuko (1890-1919)

• Married age 15, travelled to U.S.
• Ballet in U.S./London
• 1914 starts variety troupe
• Asakusa opera musical and dances

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Konoye Hidemaru (1898-1973)

• Younger brother of Fumimaro, P.M. late 1930s
• Peers School, Tokyo University of the Arts,
  studies in Paris, Berlin
• 1925 started 1st private orchestra, New Symphony
  Orchestra of Tokyo
• 1937, joins NBC Symphony Orchestra at its start
• Wartime in Berlin and Paris