Yokohama Symphony Orchestra (YSO) is an amateur orchestra founded in 1932 by Kojiro Kobune and Sotoe Yasojima. 1n 2007, they celebrated its 75th birthday and had its 600th concert in July. It has been managed with the founder’s idea that YSO should be ‘Citizen’s Organ ‘.
The first concert was held on July 1st 1933 at Port Opening Memorial Hall. They had had 12 subscription concerts a year since 1954 when the Prefectural Music Hall was built. Since 1984, they have had the subscription concerts eight times a year. On March 2010, they had the 621st concert. It has been known as “The concerts for the young people” and has been very popular among citizens of Yokohama.
They play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony every December at Kanagawa Prefectural Civic Hall. In the recent years as well as our 200 regular choir members, an additional 400 citizen choral singers have participated to this event. They have a large audience of more than 2000 every year, which is the most among the concerts of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony held there. In addition to these subscription concerts, we hold concerts at school or in other city when we are requested. In 1977 they had an amity concert in Manila which is the sister city of Yokohama
They received various awards such as the Yokohama Culture Award in 1954, the Kanagawa Culture Award in 1982 and the Tamejiro Ando Award in 1983. They published a book entitled “Citizen's Organ”, with a subtitle “Kojiro Kobune and Yokohama Symphony Orchestra ” on July 7 , 2007 in honor of Kojiro Kobune’s 100th birthday and YSO’s 75th birthday.
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