Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm (Children's program at 6:00) Masters of Japanese music to play sho, koto, & shakuhachi & nohkan flutes at Crossroads
At Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 S. 48th Street (at Baltimore Avenue) Presented in collaboration with Soundfield Naomi SATO plays shō, a mouth-blown organ with 17 bamboo pipes that was originally used ingagaku, the music of the Japanese Imperial court. She studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and music and has performed Japanese classical music and new andexperimental music in Japan, Europe, and the United States Naoko KIKUCHI plays koto, a 13-stringed zither with movable bridges that is the national instrument of Japan. She was born in Sendai, Japan and studied koto with her grandmother and mother before beginning her formal training. She received a masters degree from NHK School for Performance of Traditional Japanese Instruments and performs and teaches in both Europe and Japan. Ralph SAMUELSON plays shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute originally developed by Zen monks for musical meditation but now used in chamber music as well. He began his studies at Wesleyan University and continued in Japan with Yamaguchi Goro, a designated Living National Treasure and one of the greatest masters of thekinko style of shakuhachi performance. He teaches and performs in North America, Asia, and Europe and is director of New York's Asian Cultural Council. Kaoru WATANABE plays nohkan, a transverse (side-blown) flute of glued-together strips of smoked bamboo assembled in a conical shape and used to accompany noh theater. plays a variety of Japanese and European flutes as well as taiko drums. He is a former member of Kodo, currently lives in New York, and performs regularly in both the US and Japan. To read more, listen to sound samples, or buy tickets: http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=2567 -- Upcoming events Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 7:30 pm Presented in collaboration with the Kalmyk Brotherhood Society Lotus Ensemble State People's Dance Ensemble of the Kalmyk Republic Epic throat-singing and dazzling folk dances from the westernmost of the Mongolian peoples. Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm Umalali The Garifuna Women's Project "African rhythms, choral singing, and hypnotic, melancholic melodies... that will haunt you long after every listen. A unique, deeply moving, unforgettable album."- Songlines Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm Presented in collaboration with the Sangeet Society Shahid Parvez Khan Among the finest sitar players alive today "Shahid Parvez gave a scintillating sitar recital... imposing from the very beginning... fertile imagination and technical virtuosity in full measure."- The Hindu Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm Petar Ralchev The Mozart of Bulgarian folk music "His rich harmonic palette allows him to create dazzling chords, change keys seemingly at will, and answer his own improvised phrases with statements that push the music inexorably forward."- Chicago Reader Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 7:30 pm Taína Asili, Gaetano Vaccaro & April Goltz Flamenco and Latin American folk Puerto Rican vocalist Taína Asili and Sicilian guitarist Gaetano Vaccaro are joined by Albuquerque based dancer April Goltz for a stunning night of Latin American folk and flamenco. -- Supporters Travel expenses for this event were in part supported by the Japan Foundation, New York. Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund and by our members, donors, and program book advertisers. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administred in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
