Asian Music Week 2000 in Yokohama (the 21st Asian Composers League, Conference and Festival) will be held at Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall and elsewhere in Yokohama Aug. 3-9, featuring a variety of music by Asian composers and performers. Programs will include many Japan premieres and world premieres as well as traditional Asian performing arts including noh and kyogen, shomyo Buddhist chant, Korean samulnori and Myanmarese marionette and dance.

Three leading Japanese orchestras, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra and Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Ensemble Modern (Germany), Shanghai New Ensemble (China), Tokyo Sinfonietta and Art Respirant (Japan) will hold concerts and lecture concerts. Promising conductors Lim Hun Jong (Korea), Yeh Tsung (China/U.S.) and Kazufumi Yamashita (Japan) will be invited to the podium.

Titled "Children for the 21st Century," special concerts aimed at children, are scheduled to be held at Minato Mirai Hall Aug. 6: concert one at the Large Hall, 12:30 p.m., will feature popular children's songs by children's chorus groups; concert two at the Small Hall, 4:30 p.m., will feature new compositions. Between the concerts will be an admission-free event in which all can sing Asian children's songs and folk songs at Queens Circle in the Queens Square complex.