Varese and Zappa
115 Musicians at Chicago Millennium Park
"Fukumura’s dramatic and forceful conducting led the musicians and thus the audience in inspiration amid technical complexity
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"This is music for young as well as sophisticated hearts and minds; the youthful yet accomplished musicians took Millennium Park on a
joyful journey"
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— Splash Magazine, Chicago
Wagner
Boston Civic Symphony at Jordan Hall
"Fukumura created a sumptuous sound world for this Wagner without words
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"The broad unanimity of the plentiful strings and the unleashed horns and brass gave an old-fashioned quality,
excellently shaped by Fukumura"
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— Music Intelligencer, Boston
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Beethoven &
Mendelssohn
Boston Civic Symphony at Jordan Hall
"Fukumura drew from the Civic a big warm sound which gave the soloist a fine supporting embrace
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"Meticulously shaped, and the upward flourishes in the melody developed a pleasingly raucous timbre as the march grew louder"
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— Music Intelligencer, Boston
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