Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

13th Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Musical Instruments

Saturday, March 31, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

View program notes/photos/videos

Celebrating the 50th Year of the IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives

The concert is free and open to the public.

Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated and can be made with a credit card online here.

PROGRAM
Part I Gagaku: Sacred Soundscapes Reborn

Hyōjō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of E)
Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heavens)

Banshikichō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of B)
Kashin/ (This Auspicious Day)
Seigaiha (Blue Sea Waves)

Part II Contemporary Works for Japanese Heritage Instruments

Tadahisa Nakamura, Correspondences (2017) for bass clarinet, 17-string (bass) koto
(U.S. Premiere)
Winner of the 9th JFC (Japan Federations of Composers) Composition Award

Toshi Ichiyanagi, Hana no hen’yō (Transfiguration of Flowers) (1988, revised 1991)
for sangen (shamisen), shakuhachi & koto

Hiroya Miura, Lustral Shades (A New Commission) (2018)
for shamisen, shō, hichiriki, ryūteki & cello
(World Premiere)
Commissioned by Hidejiro Honjoh and IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives, celebrating the 50th year of our Institute

featuring Mayumi Miyata (shō), Hitomi Nakamura (hichiriki), Takeshi Sasamoto (ryūteki), Yumi Kurosawa (17-string koto), Erik Helstrom (bass clarinet), Hidejiro Honjoh (sangen & shamisen), Elena Ariza (cello), Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto), James Nyoraku Schlefer (shakuhachi), Columbia Gagaku Instrumental Ensemble of New York, and others.

 

Details

Date:
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:

Venue

Miller Theatre, Columbia University
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027 United States
+ Google Map