But also wrote yesterday, Japanese school band is the extracurricular activities rather than in the classroom. They received a lecture from morning to evening, and practice early in the morning before the class begins and after school. Band of private school can practice until late at night, but the band of the public schools there is a limit to the activity time. Because only on weekdays not enough time, there is also a band practice even on the day school holidays. In other words, they are very busy.
In Japanese extracurricular activities there is a teacher called "Komon", this is like "adviser" + "adminstrator". "Komon" is often not a music professional teachers. And because their core business is absolutely certain in the teacher, it must be carried out also preparation of lecture, lectures each is responsible and office work. In other words, the "Komon" is more busy. How much to say Japanese people that it is a workaholic, they are required extraordinary toughness both physically and mentally. Therefore in recent busyness of teachers it has become a social problem.
Under such circumstances, the "Komon" does not have enough to time to listen to domestic and international work of the vast number. As a result, whatever the concert event to competition, Program is selected from works who have heard in the past.
In addition, in the case that let students select programs due to Komon is too busy, it seems there is a tendency to select the work of the Japanese composer. Students have less knowledge of the work, and because the do not even have enough money to buy the CD, look for the work on YouTube. Because they are not able to search for composers and works that do not know, search is biased to the Japanese composer's name or works who know the name. From such circumstances, it is less likely born opportunity to play the work overseas.
Also, the decrease in the number of member due to the declining birthrate have influence on their selection. Recently works with large instrumantation are difficult to play, "flex" is popular. Of course, there is also a scale of band that can play works with large instrumantation, but would not be a majority.
It's also such a situation in the background, which came to be a lot playing the works of Japanese composer than the overseas work, but let's dig a little more information from the next time.
text. Shuhei Umemoto (Thank you, Google translation)
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