{"id":3529,"date":"2015-06-22T19:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2015-06-22T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T10:47:49","slug":"school-workshop-performances-in-yonezawa-by-shogo-komatsuzaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150622_3529.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;School Workshop Performances in Yonezawa!&#8221; by Shogo Komatsuzaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150622_3529.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150622_3529.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;School Workshop Performances in Yonezawa!&#8221; by Shogo Komatsuzaki\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">June 10, 2015<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">School Workshop\u00a0Performances in Yonezawa, Yamagata<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image4-e1433929678867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6482 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image4-e1433929678867-340x219.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Shogo Komatsuzaki\" width=\"340\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week the One Earth Tour cast has split into two teams: one is in Asakusa giving &#8220;DADAN 2015&#8221; performances, and one is in Yonezawa giving &#8220;School Workshop\u00a0Performances.&#8221; The DADAN performances feature a powerful, all-male cast drumming for 90 minutes non-stop. It&#8217;s the rainy season now in Japan so it&#8217;s quite muggy, but I&#8217;m sure all this energetic drumming will invigorate the audiences.<\/p>\n<p>I am in Yonezawa with the School Workshop\u00a0Performance team. We are giving upbeat performances at elementary schools.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2039-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mitsunaga Matsuura\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2211-e1433933770752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2211-e1433933770752-340x221.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mitsunaga Matsuura\" width=\"320\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2145-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mitsunaga Matsuura\" width=\"277\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I am really happy that Kodo has the chance to share the sound of taiko with audiences of all ages all over Japan and around the world. Also, our School Performances give us a chance to interact with so many children, so we get to help inspire future generations. I value everyday that I get to spend interacting with them and always do my best.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6494 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2424-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2424\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6498 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF2109-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Mitsunaga Matsuura\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/shogokomatsuzaki_en.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shogokomatsuzaki_s.jpg\" alt=\"shogokomatsuzaki_s\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10, 2015 School Workshop\u00a0Performances in Yonezawa, Yamagata &nbsp; This week the One Earth Tour cast has split into two teams: one is in Asakusa giving &#8220;DADAN 2015&#8221; performances, and one is in Yonezawa giving &#8220;School Workshop\u00a0Performances.&#8221; The DADAN performances feature a powerful, all-male cast drumming for 90 minutes non-stop. It&#8217;s the rainy season now in Japan so it&#8217;s quite muggy, but I&#8217;m sure all this energetic drumming will invigorate the audiences. I am in Yonezawa with the School Workshop\u00a0Performance team. We are giving upbeat performances at elementary schools. I am really happy that Kodo has the chance to share the sound of taiko with audiences of all ages all &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150622_3529.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}