Konica Minolta Planetarium TOKYO will host the immersive concert “Planetarium Concert – Classical Music Around Monet,” where attendees can journey through Monet’s paintings accompanied by music, for a limited time from Saturday, February 14 to Sunday, May 10.
“Planetarium Concert – Classical Music Around Monet” is a special planetarium concert featuring live string quartet performances centered on works by Debussy and Ravel, who lived during the same era as Claude Monet, the representative painter of Impressionism.
Within a space where images inspired by Monet’s paintings—featuring light, color, and the shifting expressions of time—spread across the entire dome, the concert revisits Monet’s life alongside music by composers who lived during his era.
The KokonQuartet, featuring two violins, a viola, and a double bass, performs masterpieces such as Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie” (Satie spent his childhood in France, like Monet) and Debussy’s “La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin” (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair), composed around the time Impressionism emerged.
KokonQuartet (Photo: Konica Minolta Planetarium TOKYO)
Unlike a typical string quartet, the inclusion of a double bass allows for unique string arrangements of piano pieces requiring a wide range from low to high frequencies, as well as orchestral works demanding greater sound pressure. Within the immersive space unique to a planetarium, enjoy an ensemble resonating amidst the starry sky.
The program includes eight pieces: Gymnopédie / Satie, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin / Debussy, Pavane pour une infante défunte / Ravel, Symphony No. 9 “The Ninth” 4th Movement / Beethoven, Clair de Lune / Debussy, and others.
📍 Konica Minolta Planetarium TOKYO (DOME1) 9F Yurakucho Marion, 2-5-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku
👉Official Website
🚇Approx. 3 min walk from Yurakucho Station
🎟️Online Ticket ¥4,400