Songs that the wind sings..

The Japanese composer, Kochi Utaki said if you listen intently, you can hear the songs that the wind sings. One of the composer's students Yuko Aoki played the piece on the Steinway on the National Cultural Stage. Yuko Aoki is teaching music at the National  Music School, She and three of her students played the piano during the first of a series of concerts planned by the National Music School. There was no indication on the programme about the dates for the other concerts.


I did not know that there Japanese piano composers. Yuko Aoki's work in Guyana is through the Japanese Aid agency. 

The programme was not printed clearly - there is something about the whole Department of Culture which has this mix of 'this is the first time we do it' with the 'talent and potential which could kick off';

Someone in the Department of Culture must know that the simple black on white works best for programmes with plain fonts. Don't make things too fancy.

A woman who attended said she thought it would have been more lively. 'This is music fuh sleep'. 

The concert had the National Steel Orchestra in the second half.

The National Cultural Centre does not have the dress code thing pasted on the beautiful glass doors. The ushers though seemed to be enforcing it.. I heard them tell a man about h is shirt out of his jeans and then another one said don't worry, like many peole not coming.
I asked the usher.. 'but Granger aint seh dress code is stupidness?' and she said.. 'but he does dress nice and come".

And then there was the nice voice before the show telling people how they must dress. Even though we could not read the printed programme.



It would be a shame if the Music School makes the effort to do future concerts and there isn't enough publicity

It wasn't clear how the publicity was done for the concert - I found out last minute.  I don't know if the uncertain dress code stops people from going to the cultural centre. I sent the invitation to people new to Guyana and felt foolish having to tell them what to wear. 

Japan is a country with plenty codes and regulations and they rebuilt the society after World War II. Their codes and regulations and so on seemed to work for them... for a few minutes on an afternoon far away you could imagine the Japanese man listening to the wind.

One day, maybe, Guyana will find the codes and regulations that will work for it and our musicians will go around the world.