Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Shakuhachi players in the Nagoya area may find this of interest.

Umewaka Rokuro (Genshou) will perform the Noh play "Shari" with his son Umewaka Kanjiro in Nagoya on December 11th at the Nagoya Nohagakudo. Umewaka sensei is the 56th generation performer in his family, going back to before the origins of present-day Noh took form during the Muromachi period. I have seen two of his performances and they were mesmerizing.

He occasionally incorporates non-traditional music and instruments in his performances, and in this case instead of the usual nohkan flute will be using shakuhachi, backed-up by koto and gagaku instruments. I have been invited to perform the shakuhachi part, which will be completely improvisational. Kawase Roshu (Kawase Junsuke III's daughter) will perform on koto.

a JPEG of the flyer can be found at www.reibo.org/09.html


Tickets are 5-15,000 yen. For the venue location, enter 名古屋能楽堂 into maps.google.co.jp.

I have also recently made the acquaintance of a very fine Kinko-ryu player, a student of Yamaguchi Goro's, name Itoh Inmei, who has asked me to perform for his students the same weekend; confirmation is pending, but I'm sure any shakuhachi players would be welcome at this gathering. Anyone interested can contact me via email for details and confirmation.

Peter

Last edited by Peter Kororo (2009-12-10 03:42:39)