1,000 cellists hold concert

1,000 cellists hold concert

More than 1,000 Japanese and foreign cellists perform what organizers billed as the world's biggest cello concert in Kobe, western Japan, on Nov. 29. The concert was held to pray for peace and recovery from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the city. The organizers said 1,013 cellists aged 4 to 87, including about 70 U.S., German and other foreign musicians, participated in the concert, with Prince Takamado, himself a cellist, in attendance.

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