The First Aobayama Concert was held on a sunny day in Aobayama during the rainy season with the trees luxuriating in the rare sunshine. Trading their textbooks and notebooks computers for musical instruments, students and professors in the School of Engineering became concert performers. Piano solos, string ensembles, and a chorus immersed the audience of 70 music lovers in beautiful melodies. The grand resplendent piano in shining black lacquer was donated by the mechanical engineering alumni association in March in hopes it would help soothe minds traumatized by the earthquake and its resulting damage.