Yamagata Symphony Orchestra
Yamagata Symphony Orchestra is a Japanese orchestra established in 1972, making it the first professional orchestra to be formed in Tōhoku. It made its Suntory Hall debut in 1987, appeared at the Colorado Music Festival in 1991, and now performs some 150 times a year, at Yamagata Terrsa and Yamagin Kenmin Hall in Yamagata, in Sakata and Tsuruoka, for schools, and at annual "Sakuranbo Concerts" at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall and in Ōsaka. In 2006, the YSO became the first orchestra in Japan to launch its own record label, and it featured in the 2008 film Departures.