9-9:40 AM - Toshi Ichiyanagi - lecture (ECS 023)

9:40-10:25 - Lecture/Recital , and Masterclass with Toshi Ichiyanagi (ECS 023)

10:30-Noon - MUSIC OF TORU TAKEMITSU (Recital Hall)

10:30-11 - A Japanese Garden? Western Confluences in Toru Takemitsu's "In an Autumn Garden" for Gagaku

Ieda Bispo, Joetsu University, Nigata, Japan

11-11:30 - Lecture/Recital: The Cosmic Metaphor of Toru Takemitsu's Rain Tree Sketches

Tomoko Isshiki - piano - University of Houston, Houston, TX

Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch (1982)
Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch II (1992)

11:30-Noon - Dream, Japanese Garden and Toru Takemitsu: Large-Scale Structure of Dream-Window through Set-Class Analysis

Hideaki Onishi, University of Washington, Seattle

Noon-1:00 PM LUNCH

1:00-1:30 PM - Lecture/Recital: Harpsichord Music by Japanese Composers (Room 011)

Calvert Johnson - harpsichord - Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA

Makiko Asaoka - Four Pieces for Harpsichord (1994)
Isaac Nagao - Ancient Cities (1986)
Karen Tanaka - Jardin des Herbes (1989)
Asako Hirabayashi - Sonatina for Harpsichord (2002) ** PREMIERE**

1:30-3:00 PM - COMPOSER MASTER-CLASSES (Room 011)

1:30-2:00 PM - Joji Yuasa with Reiko Manabe, flute (University of California, San Diego) - Domain (1978)

2:00-2:30 PM - Tokuhide Niimi with Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) - For Marimba I (1975)

2:30-3:00 PM - Akira Nishimura with Akiko Fukuda, piano (University of Kansas) - Tritrope (1978)

3:10-3:40 PM - Performance: Pachinko/Zen - A Non-Lecture on Japan (Room 508)

Gene Coleman -artistic director of festival "Transonic" at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany

3:40-4:10 PM - Oppositional Dialectics in Joji Yuasa's The Sea Darkens (Room 508)

Kristian Twombly, UMBC

4:20 PM - CONCERT of ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC (Room 508)

Yuasa - Icon (1967)
Takayuki Rai - Pain for Two Computers (1983)
Yuasa - The Sea Darkens (1987)
Fujieda - Patterns of Plants (1997)
Steven Kazuo Takasugi - Iridescent Uncertainty (1999)
Yukiko Ito - two-sides for tape (2002)
Yuasa - Eye on Genesis I for UPIC (1991)

7:30 PM - CONCERT by RUCKUS (Recital Hall)

Yuasa - Cosmos Haptic II for piano solo - 1986
Niimi - Ohju for solo cello - 1987
Nishimura - Madoromi III for clarinet and piano - 2003 **PREMIERE**

INTERMISSION

Niimi - The Soul Bird for flute and piano - 1996
Nishimura - Organums for violin, flute, clarinet, vibraphone and piano - 1989
- Hemiola
- Melismas

Franklin Cox, conductor

Saturday, April 5

9:00 - 10:40 MUSIC OF TOSHI ICHIYANAGI

9-9:30 - Ichiyanagi as Japanese Composer, and Fluxus (ECS 023)

Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

9:30-10 - Lecture/Recital: The Piano/Violin Duo Works of Toshi Ichiyanagi (ECS 023)

Yoojin Oh - piano - Manhattan School of Music (with violinist Olivier Fluchaire)

Toshi Ichiyanagi - Interrelation (1998)

10:00-10:30 - Cage, Ichiyanagi, Fluxus, Japan: Responses and Resonances (ECS 023)

Robert Haskins, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

10:40-11:10 - Lecture/Recital: A Search for Identity: Postmodern Trends in Japanese Piano Music Since 1985 (Recital Hall)

Akiko Fukuda - piano - University of Kansas

Takashi Yoshimatsu - Pleiades Dances (1986-2001)
Mamoru Fujieda - Patterns of Plants: The Seventh Collection (1997)
Akira Nishimura - Tritrope (1978)

11:10 - 11:40 - Overtones of Progress, Undertones of Reaction: Toshiro Mayuzumi and the Nirvana Symphony (Recital Hall)

Peter Burt, The Open University, Vienna, Austria

11:40-12:20 - PRESENTATIONS ON RECENT AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS ON JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (Recital Hall)

11:40-12 - Yougaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century (2002, Scarecrow Press)

Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

12-12:20 - Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (2003 forthcoming, Wesleyan U. Press)

Yayoi Uno Everett, Emory University, Atlanta

12:20-1:05 LUNCH

1:05-1:35 PM - Stylistic Counterpoint in the Early Music of Yamada Kosaku (Room 011)

David Pacun, Ithaca College, NY

1:35-3:50 PM - LECTURES OF GUEST COMPOSERS (Room 011)

1:35-2:20 - Joji Yuasa

2:20-3:05 - Tokuhide Niimi

3:05-3:50 - Akira Nishimura

4:00 PM CONCERT - Recital Hall

Colin Holter - Variations: Go Rin No Sho for solo cello (2003) **PREMIERE**
Yuasa - Calling Together (1971)
Akira Miyoshi - Reve Colorie for 2 clarinets (1991)
Ichiyanagi - Music for Electric Metronomes (1968)
Yuasa - Observations on Weather Forecasts (1983)

INTERMISSION

Niimi - Madrigal II (1981)
Ichiyanagi - Music For Piano No. 7 (1961)
Takemitsu - Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar (1981)
Yuasa - Territory (1977 ) - Ossia (new music ensemble of Eastman School of Music)
Yuasa - Mutterings (1988) - Ossia

8:00 PM - CONCERT by RUCKUS

Ichiyanagi - Cloud Atlas X for piano solo (1999)
Niimi - Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano (2002) **AMERICAN PREMIERE**
Nishimura - Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996)

INTERMISSION

Yuasa - Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989)
Ichiyanagi - Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995)
Yuasa - A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981)
Frank Cox - conductor

Sunday, April 6

9-10:30 - ROOTS OF JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC (Room 011)

9-9:30 - Globalism, Fetishization, and the "Politics" of Japanese Rap
Fuyuko Fukunaka, NYU

9:30-10 - Tsugaru Shamisen's Latest Boom: Folk Revival or Pop Sensation?
Michael Peluse, Wesleyan University

10-10:30 - Childminder of Takeda
Yumi Hara Cawkwell, City University, London, England

10:40-11:10 - Lecture/Recital: Recent Piano Works by Japanese Women Composers (Recital Hall)
Margaret Lucia - piano - Shippensburg University

Junko Mori - Imagery (1987)
Nagako Konishi - Fantasy (1995-6)
Keiko Fujiie - Pas de Deux II, Op. 14 (1989)

11:10-11:40 - Jiutamai Dance and Piano (Recital Hall)
Chie Sato Roden, piano; Junko Tano, choreographer and dancer

Traditional Japanese Dance Black Hair
Shigenobu Nakamura - White for solo piano (1983)
Yoichi Togawa - Hi No Chi (The Land of Sorrow) (1991)

11:50-12:30 - PANEL DISCUSSION

Yuasa, Niimi, Nishimura, Tanosaki, Richards

4 PM - CONCERT by RUCKUS - Freer Gallery (Washington, DC)

Yuasa - Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986)
Ichiyanagi - Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995)
Yuasa - Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989)
Niimi - Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (2002)

INTERMISSION

Nishimura - Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003)
Niimi - The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996)
Nishimura - Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996)