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Upcoming Events
Enjoy Your Summer
Thanks to everyone who supported us this year. Stay tuned for events at the beginning of fall and more information about our recruitment sessions!
Posted: 6.24.2009
Congratulations to Our Seniors!
Yamatai is graduating 7 senior members this year and we are very sad to see them go (though luckily 3 of them are staying for grad).
Thank you for all you've done for us and good luck with everything after you leave Cornell! They are:
Eva Kestner '09
Haruki Yukawa '09
Lisa Ji '09
Mitsuhiko Nishi '09
Tang Sindhuseka '09
Ken Stern '09
Posted: 5.30.2009
Recent News
THANK YOU AMERICA! THANK YOU CORNELL! THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Thank you everyone who came to the Bonten concert in Bailey Hall tonight! We almost sold out (about 1,200 attendees) and had one of the best audiences Bonten has ever had. Thank you guys for cheering and laughing at all the right times as our Yamatai seniors performed with Bonten and our eloquent speaker and musical director Eva Kestner '09 realized her life's dream of performing as part of Bonten. We'd like to thank Professor Grame Bailey for his stirring introductory speech, the volunteers and members of JUSA who helped with the tickets and ushering, and the Bailey Hall staff for making everything run smoothly. We would also like to thank all the organizations who helped us make this concert a success and helped us promote the concert with our aggressive poster and emailing campaign. And lastly, we would like to thank BONTEN (and special guests Jun Murayama on the synthesizer and Kaoru Watanabe on the Japanese flute) for packing up all those drums in Tokyo, Japan and coming all the way to Ithaca to perform. The members of Bonten who performed were Masataka Kobayashi, Momo Kobayashi, Sae Konishi, Hiroyuki Saitou, Ayu Chiba, Jin Onodera, and Eva Kestner '09. We hope you will remember this concert for a long time to come and THANK YOU FOR COMING!
Posted: 3.6.2009
Performance Requests
There is now a form for performance requests!! If you have a request, please use this form... it makes things a lot easier for us!
Posted: 03.13.2008
Our Most Recent Concert
BONTEN: Live at Bailey Hall
We would like to thank everyone who came to the Bonten concert on March 6, 2009 and watched our seniors perform with
Bonten during the concert!