アラタ、イギリスでCbeebies系のレイジータウンやフィンボーのコンサートには行った事があるが、今回は初の音楽鑑賞。The Waseda Brass という事だったので、てっきり学生の合奏団かと思ったら、「早稲田の杜金管合奏団」という早大交響楽団OBのサークル（現在は他校の卒業生も含む）で、ペナンでのコンサートは今年で５年目。
5歳以上から観覧可能ということだったが、さすがマレーシア。もっと小さい子が泣いていたりして、アラタのお行儀の悪さはあまりめだたなかった。アラタも頑張って演奏中はできるだけじっとしていた。マシューやエスターも一緒だったのでちょっとはしゃいでしまった場面もあったが、半分ぐらいは見ていた。
アラタの感想は「指揮者のお兄ちゃんがシリーだ（ふざけてる）。」指揮者の動きが可笑しかったらしい。まあ、こんな所でしょう。
音楽に親しむきっかけになれば上出来だが、ならなくても、入場料は一人10リンギ（300円＝2ポンド）で、コンサート体験としては格安。音楽に無縁な私とJasonだから、音楽教育に特に興味はないが、私もドラムを習い始めて楽しいし、家族の誰かが楽しそうに何かをやっていれば子供も興味を持つかもしれない。
我が家の音楽教育はこの程度。アラタは今のところ6歳になったらギターを習いたいと言っている。
In the U.K., Arata went to a couple of concerts, but all of them were just children's entertainment, such as Cbeebies Lazy Town or Fimbles... Officially, it was his first concert experience today!
It was the concert by The Waseda Brass. I didn't realise until the concert started that it wasn't the band of students but of its OBs. (It was started by Waseda Symphony Orchestra OBs but now they have amateur musicians from any school.) They come to Penang every year and it was their 5th year.
The concert was officially for 5 years old or above. But don't forget we are in Malaysia! There were quite a few under-ages and luckily Arata's a bit of bad manners were not so standing-out. Overall, Arata was doing good, although sometimes he was a bit uncontrollable as his friends Matthew and Esther were also with us.
His comment on the concert was, "The conductor was the most silly one!" For him, the conductor's movements were rather funny.
If this experience inspires him, it'll be good. But even if it doesn't, it was only RM10 (2GBP) for such an unusual experience. Since I started to learn drumming, I've found it so fun. We can't force our children to learn music, and we are not particularly interested in Aratakara's music education. But if one of their family members is doing some music with fun, children will probably think they want to learn it, too.
All relaxing way of our strategies... At the moment Arata is saying "I want to learn guitar when I turn 6 years old."
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