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Hilles Library. Ralph Samuelson,shakuhachi, and Mizuyo Komiya, koto, performtraditional Japanese music and new works by HirokoIto, Takashi Koto and Martin Schreiner. HillesLibrary Cinema, 3 p.m. Free admission, limitedseating. Call 493-5016 for reservations...
...Evening of Shakuhachi and Koto Music.Hilles Library Cinema, 59 Shepard Street, 8 p.m.Free, but seating reservations are recommended.Call 495-8730 for more information...
...Vienna, which also turn up on his new synthesizer album Theme of Secrets. There are the down-home guitar serenades of Folk Veteran Leo Kottke. And there is Hwong's dreamy, Asian-inflected music, which in her album House of Sleeping Beauties weds such disparate instruments as the shakuhachi (a traditional Japanese flute) and the synthesizer to create a delicate, free-flowing hybrid of est and West...
...almost visual in its stunning impact. The strings whirred and chattered, spinning out a web of shimmering sonority into which the winds and brass poked tiny pin points, like stars among scudding clouds. Through it all one black-and-grey-robed soloist warbled the mournful, breathy tones of the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute, while another tapped the strings of the lutelike biwa with a wooden plectrum, suggesting the sharp, dry crunch of dead branches in an icy forest...
...learn as much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio, and a few days later the whole family took part in a concert at Hiroshima Public Hall...
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