{"id":3989,"date":"2016-03-18T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2016-03-18T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T10:16:31","slug":"a-birthday-celebration-at-berliner-philharmonie-by-akiko-umegaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20160318_3989.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Birthday Celebration at Berliner Philharmonie&#8221; by Akiko Umegaki"},"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\/staff\/20160318_3989.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\/staff\/20160318_3989.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;A Birthday Celebration at Berliner Philharmonie&#8221; by Akiko Umegaki\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Birthday Celebration at Berliner Philharmonie<\/h2>\n<p>On March 15, we gave a performance at Berliner Philharmonie in Germany, which is home to one of Europe&#8217;s leading orchestras,\u00a0Berlin Philharmonic.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image33-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"image3\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><br \/>\nThe theater is pentagonal and the concert hall is a sphere-like realm where\u00a0the stage and audience areas feel connected. The stage is surrounded 360 degrees by seating so people watched our performance from unique angles that are rarely possible at other halls.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image13-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">March 15 is cast\u00a0member Eri Uchida&#8217;s birthday, so we celebrated her special day before the performance!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image22-e1458262549161.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image22-e1458262549161.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Akiko Umegaki\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image3-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image3-1-340x414.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Akiko Umegaki\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Lovely Eri continues to develop as a performer all the time,\u00a0so be sure to keep an eye on her!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image42.jpg\" alt=\"image4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\">Akiko Umegaki, Kodo &#8220;Mystery&#8221;\u00a0Tour Manager<\/h5>\n<div id=\"post-3963\" class=\"post-3963 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-staff tag-belgium tag-europe tag-kodo-one-earth-tour tag-mio-teycheney-takashiro tag-mystery\">\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20160130oet_en.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8409 alignleft\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20150127oet.jpg\" alt=\"20150127oet\" width=\"130\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Jan.\u2013Mar. 2016 \u201cKodo One Earth Tour 2016: Mystery\u201d Europe Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Russia<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20160130oet_en.html\">http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20160130oet_en.html<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3881 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2e6a6c34117f3653f9ca232b628848db.jpg\" alt=\"0_124_0610_B1poster_ENG\" width=\"800\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2e6a6c34117f3653f9ca232b628848db.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2e6a6c34117f3653f9ca232b628848db-350x34.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2e6a6c34117f3653f9ca232b628848db-680x67.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/news20160130oet_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/news20160130oet_map-680x449.jpg\" alt=\"news20160130oet_map\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Birthday Celebration at Berliner Philharmonie On March 15, we gave a performance at Berliner Philharmonie in Germany, which is home to one of Europe&#8217;s leading orchestras,\u00a0Berlin Philharmonic. The theater is pentagonal and the concert hall is a sphere-like realm where\u00a0the stage and audience areas feel connected. The stage is surrounded 360 degrees by seating so people watched our performance from unique angles that are rarely possible at other halls. March 15 is cast\u00a0member Eri Uchida&#8217;s birthday, so we celebrated her special day before the performance! Lovely Eri continues to develop as a performer all the time,\u00a0so be sure to keep an eye on her! &nbsp; Akiko Umegaki, Kodo &#8220;Mystery&#8221;\u00a0Tour &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20160318_3989.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":[1],"tags":[233,234,31,17,235,6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989"}],"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=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}