{"id":48,"date":"2007-09-05T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T23:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-09-05T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T23:09:29","slug":"saito-kinen-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Saito Kinen Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/uploads\/img45f27266261b4.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Saito Kinen Festival (SKF), a popular classical music festival, is being held in Matsumoto city from August 15 &#8211; September 9. We can see the colorful flags of SKF and the audience, including foreigners, in the streets.<br \/>\nSKF is performed by Saito Kinen Orchestra as its annual showcase, and is conducted by world-renowned Seiji Ozawa and performed by high-level professional players gathering from all over the world.<br \/>\nA free, open-air concert by SKO and local amateur bands was held on September 1st, at Alps Park.<br \/>\nFurther information is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saito-kinen.com\/e\/\">Saito Kinen Festival English web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival\/\" data-text=\"Saito Kinen Festival\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saito Kinen Festival (SKF), a popular classical music festival, is being held in Matsumoto city from August 15 &#8211; September 9. We can see the colorful flags of SKF and the audience, including foreigners, in the streets. SKF is performed by Saito Kinen Orchestra as its annual showcase, and is conducted by world-renowned Seiji Ozawa and performed by high-level professional players gathering from all over the world. A free, open-air concert by SKO and local amateur bands was held on September 1st, at Alps Park. Further information is available on the Saito Kinen Festival English web site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival\/\" data-text=\"Saito Kinen Festival\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2359,2357,2358],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saito Kinen Festival | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Saito Kinen Festival (SKF), a popular classical music festival, is being held in Matsumoto city from August 15 - September 9. 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