In 1946, he established ‘Shinsei-kai’ with Yoshirō Irino, Kunio Toda and Sadao Bekku, and this group provided a place for presenting his works until 1950. From the same year and the following seven years, Shibata arranged many songs for choir as a part-time worker at Tokyo Ongakushoin. In 1947, Shibata explained about “Pelléas and Mélisande” composed by C. Debussy on the NHK radio program ‘Meikyoku Kanshō no Jikan (Time for Appreciation of Great Music)’. After this first radio broadcasting, Shibata became in charge of the second broadcasting of the NHK program ‘Ongaku Nyūmon (Introduction of Music)’ and he had a profound influence on the Japanese music world in those days. Shibata co-founded the ‘Music Class for Children’, which is the predecessor of the current Department of Music at Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku, with Motonari Iguchi and Hideo Saitō in 1948. Shibata also began to write his ‘Treatise on Bartók’ which was published as a series of articles in the magazine ‘Ongaku Geijutsu’.
こどものための現代ピアノ曲集２