Tears of Sakura / Sakura no Namida
Elegy to Japan in memoriam March 11th
for solo violin and orchestra
to Simon Bernardini
Premiere in Osaka, November 28th 2011
Simon Bernardini, violin
Osaka Kyoiku University Orchestra
Yannick Paget

Charity.
All the royalties (performance and broadcast) of Tears of Sakura will be donate to
Momo-Kaki Orphans Fund, an orphan's fund for children who lost their parents in the Great East Japan Earthquake, established by renown artists such as architect Tadao Ando and conductor Seiji Ozawa.
Score and parts are freely at disposal on request.
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チャリティー
桜の涙の印税(演奏と放送)は桃・柿育英会に寄付されます。桃・柿育英会とは、東日本大震災で両親を失った子供たちのための組織で、建築家の安藤忠雄氏、指揮者の小澤征爾氏といった有名な芸術家たちによって設立されました。
楽譜は、必要に応じて自由にお使いください。
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Original version: 2.2.2.2-4.2.0.0-Tmp+1-Hp-solo Vn-str -7mn-

Arrangements:
-for orchestra only:
2.2.2.2-4.2.0.0-Tmp+1-Hp-str

-for solo violin, orchestra and choir:
2.2.2.2-4.2.0.0-Tmp+1-Hp-solo von-SATB-str

-for solo violin and smaller orchestra
2.2.2.2-2.2.0.0-Tmp-solo von-str

-for string quartet

-for violin and piano
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Broadcasted in America
on Performance Today (American Public Media) by Fred Child
in October 2012
Broadcasted in France
on France Musique
by Anne-Charlotte Rémond
Le concert de l'après-midi
March 11th 2013
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When I started to compose this piece after the hearthquake and the tsunami, my head was filled of pictures from the disaster : field of ruins and desolation. It was supposed to be the beginning of the spring when sakuras are so beautiful in Japan, but, winter was still going on. Instead of the white rain of petal of Sakura, it started to snow ; the trees seemed to be crying.
Yannick Paget
わたしは3月11日の大地震と津波により荒れ果て,廃墟のようになってしまった悲惨な状況を見てこの作品を作曲することを思い立ちました。日本では桜が咲き誇る春を目の前にして,まだまだ寒い冬が続いているような気がしました。桜から舞い散るのが花びらではなく,まるで雪のようでした。そしてそれは桜の木が犠牲になった方を思い,涙を流しているかのようでした
Yannick Paget
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Broadcasted in France
on France Inter
by Frédéric Lodéon
Carrefour de Lodéon
in March 2012