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Kigi no Kaikwa
Harbourfront Centre
November 13, 2003
   
 
Song Title: Kigi no Kaiwa
   
Date Composed: 2004
Composer: Paolo Pietropaolo
Arrangement: Paolo Pietropaolo
Premiere Performance: November 14, 2003 - Brigantine Room Harbourfront Centre
   
Kigi no Kaiwa is a playful musical conversation featuring the most basic part of the taiko ensemble - the miya taiko; drums made out of a single tree trunk. Each tree (or taiko) has a different personality in this conversation, which is carried out over a series of shifts in groove and feel. The trees persuasively try to win over their interlocutors, but eventually arrive at a happy consensus.