■ALBUM

Tohoku Youth Orchestra and Ryuichi Sakamoto
"The Best of Tohoku Youth Orchestra 2013-2023"

On sale from Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Purchase URL: https://commmons.lnk.to/TYO

●Separate web booklet

- For web viewing (pdf): JAPANESE / ENGLISH
- For printing (zip): JAPANESE / ENGLISH

Archives of photos and activity timelines that did not fit in the booklet have been compiled as a separate booklet. Please feel free to look at them. You can also print them out.

*The printing version (zip) also includes a guide for printing.

In addition to many famous songs performed by past members such as "The Last Emperor," "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence," and "Behind the Mask," the first recording of "Ima Jikan ga Kaite," written by director Ryuichi Sakamoto in January 2020 for the Tohoku Youth Orchestra, is included.

*Proceeds from this album will be used to fund the continuation of the Tohoku Youth Orchestra.

1. Behind the Mask (2013)
2. Tohoku Youth Orchestra with Otomo Yoshihide + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Collective improvisation with simple conduction (2013)
3. The Last Emperor (2016)
4-6. "Death in War" from "Living with Mother" (2016)
Reading: Yoshinaga Sayuri "Let's Go Back", "To Me", "If You Climb That Mountain"
7. Miroku Yugafu - undercooled (2017)
8. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (2018)
9. Three TOHOKU Songs (2018)
10. Etude (2019)
11-12. "Title of Living with Mother" from "Living with Mother" (2022)
Reading: Yoshinaga Sayuri "Ask the Tree", "To the Sky of Tomioka"
13-15. Still Life (2022)
Reading: Non "If You Climb That Mountain," "Dandelion in the Heart," "The Earth"
16. Time is Tiring Now (2023)

■BOOK

Froebel-kan Non-Fiction 4
"Resound, the Sound of Hope: The Future Connected by the Tohoku Youth Orchestra"

List price: 1,650 yen (1,500 yen without tax)
Publication date: December 2020
Published by: Froebel-kan
ISBN: 9784577049303
※E-book available.
※The royalties from this book will be used to support the activities of the Tohoku Youth Orchestra.

The Secretary-General, Hirokazu Tanaka, has written a non-fiction book about the history of the establishment of the Tohoku Youth Orchestra and its activities, his desire to "not let the earthquake disaster be forgotten" and "the record of the recovery of children's hearts" so that everyone across the country can know about it. It is written in easy-to-read sentences that even elementary school students can read.
It was selected as a required book for the upper elementary school division of the "Yusei Kikuchi Cultural Project 54th Iwate Reading Impressions Contest" and was also selected as an excellent book selected by Fukui Prefecture (2020).