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TIMF is an abbreviated title of Tongyeong International Music Festival (통영국제음악제). It covers the title of the event concerned and at the same time, a wide umbrella of diversified business branches within categories of the event concerned. Tongyeong International Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tongyeong City of Gyeongnam Province, located in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Considering the classification between ethnic and artistic categories, TIMF may be classified into one of Korea's leading arts and music festivals which is specialized in western music, i.e. with a variety of style and genre, such as contemporary, early(baroque), classical, romantic, traditional, symphonic, chamber or ensemble, operatic or music theater. In spite of its various appetite for genre, TIMF is usually known as being strong in contemporary program of western style music.〔http://www.timf.org〕 == History == The origin of this festival results from the spirit to commemorate Isang Yun(윤이상; 1917~1995), a world-renowned composer who was born in Tongyeong and lived the latter part of life in Berlin, Germany. Tongyeong is his birthplace and also a city where Yun settled down and took the first job of teaching at high schools. At 39, Yun moved to Europe to study, and settled down in Berlin University of the Arts, Germany. As a full-time professor, he educated so many young artists whether they are composers or players, and many of his disciples were Koreans or from Korea. Isang Yun's Korean disciples were the ones that led TIMF project to be feasible. They first sought for sponsorship from the municipal government in order to present an introductory concert titled as 'Night of Isang Yun's Music'. This singular concert was held in 1999 and found itself to be successful thanks to hails of so many Korean artists. The disciples were encouraged by this success, and they tried to develop it into Tongyeong Contemporary Music Festival. This Festival is now recognized as an archetype of TIMF's current format, and on its threshold, it was a reformatory challenge to extend a singular concert to a form of a three-days festival. This Festival is very similar to 'the prerent' TIMF in the following features. a. It was organized in a perfect form of a festival, as being held for three consecutive days. b. Each different concert presented each different content in program, style and instrumentation. c. Consistency was met in content programming, as the Festival set its own theme. 2 years of experiments in the form of festival made it clear that the content of western music could be cooperatively coexistent with Tongyeong's environments. The opinions arose among the populace that the Festival should be developed into an international format. But the initiators did not make haste. Their next step was to establish an independent entity of a foundation. This action was necessary because the activity of hosting a festival should be politically neutral and cannot be disturbed by politicians or governments. The initiators formed the Board of Directors being helped by the provincial and the municipal governments, and the Board determined the initiative proposals to constitute a foundation and elect Seong-Yawng Park(1932~2005) as the first Chairman of (TIMF Foundation ). The Foundation was established and registered in February 2002. TIMF 2002, the first edition of a new 'international' format, was presented by this new legal entity through organizational forces caused by the Board, the Managing Committee and the Administration Office. Based upon the past 2 years' experiences, the programmers of the Secretariat constituted Tongyeong International Music Festival 2002, for 8 consecutive days in March. The programmers kept deciding a new theme for each year. The theme was always derived from a subtitle of Isang Yun's works. Although there always arose a need to construct a new concert hall, Tongyeong Arts Center with Main Hall (880 seats) and Small Hall (290 seats), was always the official venue. The following is the prospectus of Tongyeong International Music Festival since its first edition up to now. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TIMF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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