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The festival will take place in Trzebiatow and Gryfice located on the Baltic from May 19 to May 23, 2002. It will be a big festival that will produce several guest concerts, competitions, and lectures for 5 days.

Also, NE will have commemorative recitals in Tokyo and Yokohama. Excellent concert halls which have similar acoustics with St. Mary's Church in Poland, were selected for the events. People in Japan, please enjoy the same program with it in Poland there.

The program includes standard numbers and NE's originals, so that audience can enjoy a variety of Niibori sound. Various styles of performance like, solo, duet, and ensemble by all members will be presented. Moreover, encores can be expected on the day.

The minute and close performance by NE may sound fresh even in people's ears who are familiar with a grand performance by the Niibori Guitar Philharmonic Orchestra.

== NE recital in Japan ==

Tokyo: May 13 (Mon) 19:00 in Vories Hall (in Ochanomizu Square)
All non-reserved seats Adult 4,500 yen (5,000 yen on the day)
Students 3,000 yen (3,500 yen on the day)

Yokohama: May 14 (Tue) 19:00 in Minato Mirai Hall (small)
All reserved seats@ S/5,000 yen A/4,000 yen

At first, we believed it was the time to carry out our peaceful plan, and we arranged part of the program and changed it to a charity concert for American Red Cross under the permission of UNICEF. However, white smoke is hanging over the area still now and it is not a suitable condition to have a performance with relaxation both for the orchestra and audience.

The concert tour was not a sightseeing for us, of course. It was suggested that all players would enter America by the performance visa. It was very honorable for us as it was the proof of being a national musical performer. All members strongly wished to accomplish it even if we needed to reduce the scale. Facsimile messages, telephone calls, e-mails, letters for encouragement reached our office a lot and they moved us so much. But after the careful consideration, we decided to put off it BECAUSE we have such wonderful members and friends.

My aim was to have the best performance in Manhattan conveying the message of world peace to the world with my orchestra. But now is not the time to make my dream come true in a good condition.

I think members in the orchestra are having hard time now, but please understand this situation and have a bright hope to present our magnificent performance by our 150-piece guitar orchestra to people in New York when the time will come.

Also, we promise people who have supported it by today that we never waste their kindness.

On behalf of people who are concerned with this concert tour, we sincerely ask everyone to understand our unavoidable decision. Hiroki Niibori Musical Director Japan Educational Guitar Association

Hiroki Niibori
Musical Director of Japan Educational Guitar Association

Hiroki Niibori
Director of Niibori Guitar Philharmonic Orchestra

And, two of the winners of All Japan Guitar Concours 2001 (school section) will be qualified to be members of the orchestra in Carnegie Hall.

The expected program is as follows;

1. "Old Black Joe" in baroque style
2. "Ciribiribin" in baroque style
3. Concerto for Piccolo
4. Cembalo guitar solo by Kohiro Sasozaki
5. Solo performance by Yoshimasa Yoshida
6. Tango en skai, the guitar orchestra version
7. The electrical guitar concerto "Gold Rush 2001"
8. NRM 18-01
9. Variations on Sakura
10. Niibori Guitar Men's Sextet
11. Niibori Guitar Ladies' Quartet "Beguin the begin"
12. Guitar concert Op.30
13. Overture from Operetta "Die Fledermarus"
(The program may be changed without announcement in advance)