JICA GOT TALENT
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Senior Volunteer Yoshiharu Kurata belts out some classical tunes during a performance at Kramer's on Friday, October 25. Aside from doing city planning work for Airai State, Kurata has been performing and sharing his vast musical talents around the country. (Photo by Jose S. of Tia Belau)
Roberto Hernandez is teaching Mr. Yoshiharu Kurata twice a week (Monday and Thursday 11:30am - 12:30pm.
Mr. Kurata can play saxophone, flute, ocarina, guitar, quena (Palauan record/bamboo flute), vocals and keyboard.
It's not actually teaching but jamming and learning from each other about timing, music score, harmonize, international songs, experimenting on musical combination among those instruments.
They experimented many variations on "Besame Mucho" --Roberto singing the 1st stanza; Mr. Kurata singing the 1st voice for harmony; Roberto playing keyboard, Mr. Kurata --flute; Roberto with the intro; exchange from 1st voice to 2nd voice (which works better); ad lib by Mr. Kurata (1st stanza tunes); and everything they can think of to make a harmonized and well-arranged combination with the song.
They performed twice at Palau Visitor Authority's Friday International Night for 15 minutes.
They performed also at Airai View Hotel with Timothy Sisserson, the Director of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.
Source: Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 1 & 7
Volume 22
Issue 87
October 31, 2013
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By Roberto Hernandez
November 2013
To be published as a book in the future
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