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Day Out with Baby Vol.1
La Folle Journée au Japon 2016

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Moms and Dads who are looking for fun activities to enjoy with your whole family, how about a classical music concert with a baby?  “La Folle Journée au Japon 2016” is a classical music festival featuring many concerts and performing arts to fill the whole town with music.  Here is our experience at “La Folle Journée au Japon 2016”.

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“La Folle Journée au Japon” is held every year during the Golden Week Holidays, a special holiday week in Japan from the end of April to early May, at the Tokyo International Forum in Yurakucho, Tokyo.  This event features exciting performances and programs of classical music at reasonable or even free admission.  The area is filled with classical music all day long throughout this event.  The concert is also held in Niigata prefecture and Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture.

We went to a big concert hall for the “Concert for Babies”.  Wow, there were lots of Moms and Dads with babies inside!  A space to store baby strollers and a nursing room for babies were prepared for this special occasion.  This must have been the first classical music concert for most of babies, but not only babies but also Moms and Dads looked little tense.

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In the almost full big hall, we welcomed members of orchestra.  Some of babies were staring at instrumentalists wearing all in black on the stage, and others were curiously looking at the shiny lighting on the ceiling.  They were all looking around restlessly.

Now, the concert had begun.  The performances of the day were Smetana’s “Vltava, excerpt from Ma Vlast” and Tchaikovsky’s “excerpts from The Swan Lake op.2”.  Both of them were famous symphonies that everyone may have known.  Even those who were not familiar with classical music can immerse themselves in the performance thanks to the narration about musical works by a staff.  The babies were looking at the stage and screens on the side trying to figure out what was happening.  After all, they are a baby and it’s difficult to sit still and be quiet.  They looked around restlessly, and some of them started crying in the different environment.  However, this was the “Concert for Babies”, so no need to worry.  Moms and Dads could dandle the baby and enjoy the performance together.  It seemed like that the members of orchestra were also enjoying the lively audiences that were different from their ordinary concerts.

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After 20 minutes, hmm… it looked like that the baby got tired of staying at the same place and became fussy.  We decided to take the baby out of the seat and enjoy the concert by the entrance area.  This would be only possible in this concert.  There was no need to worry about people around us, nor was there a need to make the baby to stay still.  Isn’t it nice to have a place like this?

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When the 45 minutes concert was over, we felt a relief.  At the same time, we felt a sense of fulfillment to be able to enjoy classical music with a baby as well.  In any case, it was fun!  We will remember this memorable experience forever.  The babies may not remember like us, but who knows?  The incredible performances may touch their life somehow.  Let’s look forward to the near future when we can tell them that “do you remember we went to the classical music concert together when you were a baby?”.

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