Concert held in N.Y. Carnegie Hall for Japanese-Turkish friendship

A concert dedicated to Japanese-Turkish friendship and world peace was held in New York's world-famous Carnegie Hall on Thursday night.The concert was performed by the New Manhattan Sinfonietta Orchestra, founded by Turkish conductor Gurer Aykal, under the baton of Japanese amateur conductor Seiji Mukaiyama.The orchestra performed two parts of Mukaiyama's symphonic suite "Friendship." One part was inspired by the story of the Ottoman frigate Ertugrul, which sank off Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan in 1890, while the other focuses on the 1985 rescue by a Turkish Airlines plane of Japanese…READ FULL ARTICLE