マリンバ演奏会の前日です。明日のお天気が心配ですが、大勢のお客様に混乱がないよう対応をしっかりしたいと思います。
そんな昼下がり、大きな箱が宅配で８つ届きました。布谷史人さんがお使いになるマリンバです。いつものことながらその大きさと重さに驚きます。明朝は布谷さんと遠く高知県で音楽教室を開きマリンバも教えていらっしゃるE.Yさんと、ボストンで布谷さんのマリンバの弟子だった岐阜のN.Fさんのお二人が組み立ての手伝いを申し出てくださり、これらの大きな箱が開けられて一台のマリンバになります。楽器屋からのレンタルのようで、こうして梱包されて送られてきますが、普段ドイツでは自宅から演奏会場まで布谷さんが自分で車に積み込み、会場で組み立て、終われば解体して車に積んで帰るという生活です。フルートのような軽い楽器と違い、マリンバ奏者は演奏だけでなく、楽器の持ち運びにも強靭な体力を要することがよくわかります。
２年ぶりの多賀あさひやでの演奏会。ソロの曲ばかり考えに考えてくださったプログラムです。合間には布谷さん自身のトークが入ったり、観客からの質問を受けるなど、普段の音楽ホールとは違う雰囲気のコンサートです。楽しみでなりません。
It's the day before the marimba concert. I am worrying about the weather tomorrow, but anyhow we will try our best to make all participants feel comfortable at the site.
This afternoon, I received eight big boxes from the delivery service person. They are pieces of marimba which Nunoya will use for his performance tomorrow. I had been receiving these boxes every time we had his performance at my place, but still the size and the weight of each box were a big surprise to me. Mr. Nunoya is based in Germany and uses rental marimba when he has concerts in Japan. Therefore these are sent from musical instrument company in Chiba, Japan. Two people who know Nunoya very well offered to help for assembling marimba with him. One is Ms.Y who is teaching marimba in Kouch and the other one is Mr. F who received marimba lessons from Nunoya when they were in Boston. They will unpack these boxes and assemble them to one marimba for the concert tomorrow morning. Usually Mr. Nunoya carries these pieces in his car and assembles them by himself, and brings them back to his home in Germany. Since it is not a light instrument such as flute, marimba player needs to be strong to carry the music instrument besides playing the music.
It will be two years since the last marimba concert in Taga Asahiya. The program is all solo music for the marimba which Mr. Nunoya selected from his repertoire. It will be a little bit different from his usual concert at the big music hall. In his concert at my place, he will talk little bit about the music which he plays at this concert and explain about the instrument of marimba. He will also take questions from the audience in between the music. I am looking forward to having the concert tomorrow.
