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取材をした日は、石巻市総合体育館で音楽会があり、音楽会が終わった後、私たちにお話をしてくれた。
佐渡裕さんは、指揮者でとても有名。指揮者になろうとした理由は２つある。まず、お母さんが歌とピアノの先生をしていて、いつも周りに音楽がある環境で育ったということ。もう一つは、小澤征爾さんに憧れ、お母さんに音楽会に連れて行ってもらい、指揮をすることは、すごいことだと思ったこと。大学ではフルートを専門に勉強したけれど、その感動を忘れられず、やはり指揮者になったそうだ。
佐渡さんは震災が起こるずっと前に、石巻市民会館に音楽会で演奏しに来たことがある。震災後に石巻を何回か訪れたときは、以前のような沿岸部の町並みがなくなっていて悲しい気持ちになったという。体育館での演奏会を見にきてくれた方々は泣きながら「来てくれて、ありがとう」といってくれて、みんなを励まさなければという思いで胸がいっぱいになったという。
佐渡さんの子どもの頃の話を聞くと、驚きの連続！実は、ピアノが嫌だった!!ピアノを弾くことは好きだったけれど、毎日の練習が厳しくて、友達と遊んだりする時間がなかったから。
はじめて近くで佐渡さんを見たときの第一印象は「背が高い!!」。今の身長は186㌢だが、小学校６年生の時点で、176㌢もあったという。他にも、友達と漫才トリオをつくって修学旅行などで漫才を披露したりして、いつも先頭に立つガキ大将だった。そして、小学校の卒業文集で、ベルリンの有名なオーケストラの指揮をしたいと書いて、その夢を実現させた。
佐渡さんの今後の目標は３つある。まず、ベルリンやウィーンの有名なオーケストラの指揮をまたしたいということ。もう一つは、アメリカのオーケストラはまだしたことがないので、やりたいということ。最後は、そのような体験や見たことを、日本の人たちに伝えることだ。
被災地の方へのメッセージ。佐渡さんが芸術監督するスーパーキッズ・オーケストラ（SKO）は、阪神・淡路大震災の復興のシンボルとして開館した兵庫県立芸術文化センターの先行事業として2003年に結成されたので、被災地を励ます使命がある。今後も石巻でも演奏をしていきたいと話していた。
取材・文：村松 鈴音（大街道小学校６年生）
2013/09/11
Let’s conduct all over the world!
Rinne Muramatsu, 6th Grade, Okaido Elementary School
On the day of the interview, there was a concert on at the Ishinomaki General Gymnasium, and afterwards Yutaka Sado took time for us. He is a very famous conductor. There are two reasons why he became a conductor. Firstly, his mother was a piano and singing teacher, and he grew up in an environment where there was always music around him. The other reason was that he admired Seiji Ozawa, and so he had his mother take him to a concert, and he thought that conducting was amazing. At university he studied the flute as his major, and did not forget that passion as he became a conductor.
A long time before the earthquake hit, Sado came to Ishinomaki City Hall to perform in a concert. He says that during the times when he visited Ishinomaki after the earthquake, it made him sad that the town along the coast that used to be there was gone. He remembers getting a lump in his throat when those who came to see the concert in the gymnasium cried while thanking him for coming, and his heart was filled with the need to encourage everyone.
When we heard Sado’s childhood stories, it was surprise after surprise! He actually hated the piano! Although he liked playing the piano, practicing everyday was difficult, as it meant he didn’t have time to do things like play with friends.
The first time we got close and saw Sado, our first impression was “he’s tall!” His height is now 6ft 1” (186cm), but he told us that when he was in 6 Grade at Elementary School, he was as tall as 5ft 9” (176cm). What’s more, he made a comedy trio with his friends that performed shows on school trips, and he would always play the group’s bratty leader. And, in his Elementary school yearbook, he wrote that he wanted to conduct Berlin’s famous orchestra, and he made that dream come true.
Sado has three goals from now on. Firstly, he wants to conduct the famous Berlin and Vienna Orchestras again. Also, because he has still never conducted an American Orchestra, he would like to do that. Lastly, he will report to the people of Japan what he has seen, and his own personal experience of those things.
Sado had a message for the people in the area struck by the disaster. The Super Kids Orchestra (SKO), of which he is the artistic director, was formed in 2003 as the prior project of the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, which was opened as a symbol of the reconstruction after the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, so their mission is to bring encouragement to areas affected by the disaster. He stated that he would like to come and perform in Ishinomaki again as well.
(Translation: Kendra Evans, Jennifer Hikari Dixon)