I can feel the emotion running through me as I listen to this; expressively saddening and feeling of distraught.  What a beautiful composition!

Hi Yannick, We are a British vocal group, The London Quartet (www.thelondonquartet.com — assez actif en France, en Belgique, en Suisse et au Québec, d'ailleurs) currently on tour in the Mid-West of the United States. It's taken me a few days to get round to writing this, but a few days ago, listening to PBS in our car in Nebraska, we were very moved by this piece. Thanks you. It's absolutely beautiful. We look forward to your writing something for ATTBar - because we might well like to perform it! Bonne chance, et bonne fortune, où que vous soyez dans le monde. Mike. (Michael Steffan, Cantabile – The London Quartet)

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Tears of Sakura / Sakura no Namida for violin and orchestra in memorian the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Mach 11th 2011.
Live recording in Osaka Simon Bernardini, violin (Berliner Philharmoniker); Osaka Kyoiku University Orchestra; Yannick Paget, conductor
Charity.
All the royalties (performance and broadcast) of Tears of Sakura will be donate to Momo-Kaki Orphans Fund, an orphan's fund for children who lost their parents in the Great East Japan Earthquake, established by renown artists such as architect Tadao Ando and conductor Seiji Ozawa.
Score and parts are freely at disposal on request.
When I started to compose this piece after the hearthquake and the tsunami, my head was filled of pictures from the disaster : field of ruins and desolation. It was supposed to be the beginning of the spring when sakuras are so beautiful in Japan, but, winter was still going on. Instead of the white rain of petal of Sakura, it started to snow ; the trees seemed to be crying. » 
Yannick Paget

Tears of Sakura/Sakura no Namida

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