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Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association has declared a video contest among the participating bands of the 129th Tournament of Roses Parade (see more of this visit here) where the theme is “Making a Difference” in your community. The entry of Kyoto Tachibana S.H.S. Green Band is above, it is based on the 2012 Benefit concert held in Performing Arts Center at John F. Kennedy High School, La Palma, California when band attended Tournament of Roses Parade first time (see more of that visit here, and the full Benefit concert -video here).
The video starts with band founder, esteemed professor Hisashi Hiramatsu (1935-2021) conducting Jun’ichi Naitō‘s composition “With Pride and Prayer in My Heart” for the remembrance of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and written one month after that disastrous event. Then we proceed to Alan Menken‘s moving piece “Go the Distance” from Disney 1997 movie “Hercules” conducted by Band Director Hiroyuki Tanaka – and in the last seconds of the video you can see him at his most conductorlike performance ever!
All videos can be seen at the (now defunct) website of Pasadena Tournament of Roses where public voting also takes place, starting September 8, 2017 and ending September 30, 2017 (…apparently you can vote multiple times if you wait few hours in between…). Winning band will get prize money ($2500) to be used to cover some of their travelling cost to Tournament of Roses Parade. However, in a note from Green Band Association (see it from here, in English and Japanese) the band has announced that should they win they will donate the prize money to the ongoing recovery efforts of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Detailed voting instructions are here (in Japanese).
Completely awesome video is made by Green Band Association (GBA1998) to solicit votes for the band, see it below:
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And if you are interested, you can read the rather touching story of origami cranes by National Geographic here.
One of the 1000 origami cranes made by Sadako Sasaki
theyare by far the best marching band in the world incredeble inevery thing they do they m ake me truly happywhen i am down because they are so lovely and happy themselyes from david ex british soldier
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I got interested with marching bands the first time I saw a video of Kyoto Tachibana SHS band’s performance and since then I became your fan!.. You guys are awesome & very talented!.. I wish you win..^_^
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hope and pray Kyoto Tachibana wins. It’s the only marching band I really love
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I’m of course biased but I think their video was very well made. It has certainly worthy cause, they play solemn music attuned to that cause and the band plays themselves the whole time, this is based on live recording. And as highlights to us fans it has professor Hiramatsu conducting which is always a privilege to see and personally I liked a lot how Tanaka-sensei goes all out in the end.
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