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KOMACHI, director Daniel Banks' modern rendition of a Japanese Noh drama, aspires to dramatize conflicts between East and West, reality and abstraction, nonsense and coherence, beauty and ugliness. The real battle here, though, is sleep vs. attentiveness, and alas, slumber wins...
...kind of Japanese equivalent of American country and western. Traditional Japanese music, marked by delicate use of microtones, refined textures and free rhythm, was downgraded during the drive toward Westernization. But it remains popular, especially with older people and in the provinces, and is preserved in the Noh, Bunraku and Kabuki theaters. "We never had a national traditional music," says Toyama. "It was strictly apportioned by classes: the courts, the samurai, the merchants each had their own. But everyone can participate in the Western system." Although some composers like Toru Takemitsu have lately attempted to synthesize traditional music with Western...
...multimilliondollar, 30-hour epic that explores contemporary life along the ancient Chinese and Central Asian routes followed by the silk caravans. NHK's second channel is dedicated to education and often works in tandem with the nation's primary schools. It also offers Shakespeare, symphonic music, Noh plays and Kabuki drama...
...evolved, with men known as onna-gata performing the female roles, Kabuki became more explicitly theatrical, drawing on the earlier dramatic conventions of serious Noh theater, comic Kyogen plays, and stories from the Bunraku puppet theater. Parts were passed down the generations as leading theatrical families established themselves. Today, when a Kabuki actor reaches a sufficient level of artistry, he is rewarded with the name of a distinguished ancestor. Leading Kabuki artists like Tamasaburo, 32, a brilliant onnagata, may achieve the popularity of rock stars. One of the most effective works in the tour repertory is Narukami (The Thunder...
...grain-trade investment by buying out Koppel Inc., the company's American partner, thereby becoming sole owner of a giant export elevator in Long Beach, Calif., along with elevators in Salina, Kans., and Enola, Neb. Other Japanese firms with U.S. grain-handling interests include Zen-Noh, a cooperative that is building an $88 million terminal outside New Orleans...