You Gotta Quintet | |
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Genre | Music Educational program Variety show Puppetry |
Directed by | Kei Shimoyama |
Starring | Akira Miyagawa Haruhiko Saitō Tesshō Genda Ayumi Shigemori Ken'ya Ōsumi |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
Production | |
Producer | Kei Shimoyama |
Running time | 12 minutes (2003) 10 minutes (2004-2013) |
Production company | NHK |
Original release | |
Network | NHK Educational TV |
Release | 7 April 2003 30 March 2013 | –
You Gotta Quintet (クインテット) is a Japanese musical children's television program which aired on NHK Educational. It is the 2nd NHK puppet variety show overall, the first one being Hotch Potch Station.
The program offers witty interpretations of classical music for children featuring puppets and a variety of music and cultural entertainment. This program introduces music into daily life for the pleasure of children, and features a musical group called The Evening Quintet. They play folk songs (alongside a bit of J-Pop and anime songs), and classical music, with a variety of instruments such as piano, violin, and clarinet.
In 2023, from 15 September to 6 October, NHK rebroadcast 8 selected episodes from 2003 as part of their E-Tele Time Machine program.
Quintet Petit was broadcast from April 3, 2006 to March 30, 2007 and March 31, 2008 to March 27, 2009. It used the third and fourth parts from the main show.
The original songs are written by Kei Shimoyama and composed by Akira Miyagawa.
The 'You Gotta Quintet' Theme" is used to open and close the show. The lyrics of the theme song changes depending on the seasons; the spring version from March to May, summer from June to August, autumn from September to November, and winter from December to February. The lyrics of the opening theme changed starting in 2007.
In this featurette the Quintet song team presents original songs, works derived from classical material, and folk songs.
On December 1, 2005, the program won an Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Award in the children/young people program section with the notation "that was able to stream down splendor, the pleasure that this program used the doll, and the music had" at the 42nd annual general meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.[1]