Japan Tour 2008

Tokyo Junior Orchestra Society under the direction of Maestro Ono welcomes CYS members to Tokyo in this very thoughtful video. Previous CYS tours to Japan took place in 1963 (the first international tour by an American youth orchestra) and 1996. 1997 saw CYS hosting young Japanese musicians from Kobe and Okayama, with Maestro Leo Eylar and a group of CYS musicians returning the visit the following year. The 2008 Japan Tour marked another chapter in the continuing artistic dialogue between CYS and Japan.