Institute for Medieval
Japanese Studies

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March 24, 2006 (Friday)

5:30 – 7:30PM

The President’s Room, Faculty House, Columbia University

Performed by the renowned Japanese gagaku musicians:

Hitomi Nakamura – hichiriki

Mayumi Miyata – shō

Takeshi Sasamoto – ryūteki

with commentary by Professor Naoko Terauchi

and New York artists

Marie Dalby – viola da gamba

Nancy Kito – harpsichord

Part I: The Classical Sound of Gagaku Music

Presented in an abbreviated ensemble of three wind instruments, ryūteki, hichiriki, and shō.

Hyōjō no chōshi

Etenraku

Demonstration of Instruments with Commentary

Somakusha

Tuning section (netori)

Free-rhythm prelude (jo)

Unfolding (ha)

Part II: Contemporary Music for Gagaku Instruments

Ryūteki solo Takeshi Sasamoto

Tsuki no shita nite (Under the Moon) (1992)

by Takeshi Sasamoto

Hichiriki solo Hitomi Nakamura

“Finalé with an Etude-like Cadenza”

from Bōkyō (Longing for Home) (2003)

by Eikichi Kiyomoto

Shō solo Mayumi Miyata

Senkō-hana-bi (1997)

by Robert HP Platz (1951~)

World Premier

Koyomi (Almanac) for shō, harpsichord, and viola da gamba (2006)

by Hiroya Miura (1975~)

]Life[ for shō, hichiriki and glass chimes (2004)

by Gerhard Stäbler (1949 ~)

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