Kirk here with an announcement from my friend and colleague, Joe Tomei:
===== The Sinfonietta, an amateur orchestra in Kumamoto, will be giving its 34th annual concert on 27 Nov at the Kumamoto Prefectural Gekijo, next to Kumamoto Gakuen University. We’ll be playing Rossini’s Overture to Il Signor Bruscino, Schubert’s 1st and Beethoven’s 8th. Our guest conductor is Akitoku Nakai, who has an opera background, so please join us. If you’d like tickets, please contact Joe Tomei.