{"id":34452,"date":"2014-04-01T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=34452"},"modified":"2014-04-01T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:59:52","slug":"justins-japan-nippon-in-new-york-miyazaki-godzilla-tribeca-film-festival-sakura-matsuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/01\/justins-japan-nippon-in-new-york-miyazaki-godzilla-tribeca-film-festival-sakura-matsuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin\u2019s Japan: Nippon in New York \u2014 Miyazaki, Godzilla, Tribeca Film Festival, Sakura Matsuri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York’s 33rd annual Sakura Matsuri will be held at Brooklyn Botanic Garden April 26-27. (Mike Ratliff)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Spring has sprung in the Big Apple, and that means one thing: a new season of sounds, colors, and spectacular performing arts to match the blossoming sakura trees throughout the city.<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s highlights include:<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Turning Point: 1997-2008<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Hayao Miyazaki<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Art of The Wind Rises<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

MSRP $29.99, $34.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

The companion second volume to the earlier chronicleStarting Point: 1979-1996<\/em>\u00a0(also new in\u00a0paperback<\/a>),Turning Point<\/em>\u00a0is an insightful collection of essays, interviews, memoirs, and illustrations from legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The new title covers the critical stage in the legendary director\u2019s career when his animated films for\u00a0Studio Ghibli<\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a0Princess Mononoke<\/em>,\u00a0Spirited Away<\/em>, and\u00a0Ponyo<\/em>\u00a0began to garner a significant international audience.\u00a0Turning Point<\/em>\u00a0follows Miyazaki as his grand vision continued to mature, cinema-lovers worldwide discovered and embraced his creations, and prominent film critics such as Roger Ebert delivered tremendous acclaim for the director\u2019s films. Bringing us up to the present is\u00a0The Art of The Wind Rises<\/em>, which captures the art of the film from conception to production, featuring in-depth interviews with the creative team from Miyazaki\u2019s latest\u2014and supposedly final\u2014Academy Award-nominated epic.<\/p>\n

April 8-13, 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gary Burton & Makoto Ozone Duets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blue Note Jazz Club<\/a>, 131 West Third Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

$20, $35<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Kobe to a jazz organist father,\u00a0Makoto Ozone<\/a>\u00a0came to Boston in 1980 to study at the Berklee College of Music, where multi-Grammy Award-winning vibraphonist\u00a0Gary Burton<\/a>\u00a0was a composition and percussion instructor. After graduation he made his first American solo appearance in 1983 with a recital at Carnegie Hall. The incredibly talented young man struck a record deal with CBS, making his international debut in 1984 with the album\u00a0OZONE<\/em>. Burton and Ozone have been collaborators in the duet format for over two decades and recorded the Grammy-nominated\u00a0Virtuosi<\/em>\u00a0in 2002. The versatile Ozone has hosted a TV series in Japan, ventured into electronics, and composed for and played with classical orchestras in addition to working with his own jazz trio from his home in New York.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 9, 8:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mitsuko Uchida<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Carnegie Hall<\/a>, 881 Seventh Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n

$22.50-$140<\/strong><\/p>\n

Praised by the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0when she last appeared at Carnegie Hall as \u201camong the most respected artists of our time\u201d for her \u201cprobing and magisterial performances\u201d of Schubert\u2019s last three sonatas, pianist Mitsuko Uchida returns to perform his \u201cReliquie\u201d Sonata, once mistakenly thought to be the composer\u2019s final work. Also on the program is Beethoven\u2019s all-encompassing and transcendent Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli.<\/p>\n

For the complete story, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Spring has sprung in the Big Apple, and that means one thing: a new season of sounds, colors, and spectacular performing arts to match the blossoming sakura trees throughout the city. This month\u2019s highlights include: Tuesday, April 8 Turning Point: 1997-2008\u00a0by\u00a0Hayao Miyazaki The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,4,53,263,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-articlejournalism","category-events","category-film","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8XG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34460,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34452\/revisions\/34460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}