Concert at the Park features Japan’s Worldship Orchestra

Concert at the Park is featuring the Worldship Orchestra from Japan tonight. The Manila Symphony Orchestra, Tondo Chamber Orchestra and Viva Voce will also join them. The program starts at 6 p.m. at the Rizal Park Open-Air Auditorium. Admission is free.

Worldship Orchestra (WSO) from Japan, founded by leader, Akihide Noguchi, presents free classical concerts for the children in the Philippines and other Asian countries. The group also gives free music workshop for children in different schools and institutions. WSO dreams a future in which children will have the chance to involve themselves in music, particularly in orchestra education in their local community for life skill enhancement.

The WSO goes around Manila to meet thousands of children. Not only watching and listening to the orchestra, the children will have the chance to join, sing along and conduct with the orchestra members onstage.

Tonight, the performers have prepared the following program: A Tribute to John Williams (J. Williams); Triputyque (Y. Akutagawa); Three Kinds of Japonisme (T. Mashima), and many more.

Concert at the Park, a Catholic Mass Media Awards Hall of Fame awardee for Best Cultural Program, is a weekly public service project of the National Parks Development Committee (NPDC), under executive director Elizabeth Espino and the Department of Tourism, under Sec. Ramon Jimenez Jr.