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New Music for Zen Flute: Shakuhachi concert at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre.
Thursday 26 March 2009
New Music for Zen Flute
Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. 7:45 pm
Tickets: £12.50 Concession: £6.25 (transaction fees apply; limited availability)
Booking, info and listen to sound sample:
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/all-events/productions/kiku-day-new-music-for-zen-fl-44775
Kiku Day is a jinashi shakuhachi player. The shakuhachi went through a series of 'improvements' after Japan opened up for the outside world in the latter half of the 19th century and was influenced by especially Western music. During the process of building up a new modern country, the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism - the members of which were shakuhachi playing mendicant monks komuso - was abolished. Ensemble music was favoured over the Buddhist solo repertoire. Shakuhachi makers experimented creating modern shakuhachi tuned to Western pitch, having a larger volume and a 'purer' sound like a flute. The old shakuhachi was marginalised in the mainstream of traditional music world
and only eccentric amateurs were thought as players of this instrument. It has enjoyed a revival
of interest the last 5-10 years - mostly by non-Japanese players. Kiku believes the complex timbre with noise elements of the old shakuhachiha has potentials in new music and is trying to create a repertoire that will
place this instrument in the 21st century. The concert presents the result of 3 years of close collaboration with composers from Britain, Japan and Denmark and includes pieces for solo shakuhachi, shakuhachi with electronics,
clavichord and choir.
Performed by
Kiku Day (jinashi shakuhachi)
Michael Bonaventure (clavichord)
Fever Pitch/dir Elinor Corp (choir)
Composers:
Roxanna Panufnik
Takahashi YÅ«ji
Frank Denyer
Yumi Hara Cawkwell
Mogens Christensen
New Music for Zen Flute: Shakuhachi concert at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre.
Thursday 26 March 2009
New Music for Zen Flute
Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. 7:45 pm
Tickets: £12.50 Concession: £6.25 (transaction fees apply; limited availability)
Booking, info and listen to sound sample:
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/all-events/productions/kiku-day-new-music-for-zen-fl-44775
Kiku Day is a jinashi shakuhachi player. The shakuhachi went through a series of 'improvements' after Japan opened up for the outside world in the latter half of the 19th century and was influenced by especially Western music. During the process of building up a new modern country, the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism - the members of which were shakuhachi playing mendicant monks komuso - was abolished. Ensemble music was favoured over the Buddhist solo repertoire. Shakuhachi makers experimented creating modern shakuhachi tuned to Western pitch, having a larger volume and a 'purer' sound like a flute. The old shakuhachi was marginalised in the mainstream of traditional music world
and only eccentric amateurs were thought as players of this instrument. It has enjoyed a revival
of interest the last 5-10 years - mostly by non-Japanese players. Kiku believes the complex timbre with noise elements of the old shakuhachiha has potentials in new music and is trying to create a repertoire that will
place this instrument in the 21st century. The concert presents the result of 3 years of close collaboration with composers from Britain, Japan and Denmark and includes pieces for solo shakuhachi, shakuhachi with electronics,
clavichord and choir.
Performed by
Kiku Day (jinashi shakuhachi)
Michael Bonaventure (clavichord)
Fever Pitch/dir Elinor Corp (choir)
Composers:
Roxanna Panufnik
Takahashi YÅ«ji
Frank Denyer
Yumi Hara Cawkwell
Mogens Christensen
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