Music of Japan Today 2007

 

Schedule of Events

UMBC Fine Arts Building

 

Friday, March 30:

Recital Hall:

9 AM - “Alchemy of Brass: Spirituality and Wind Music in Japan ” - David Hebert, Assistant Professor, Boston University

9:35 - “Structural Integration of Television Phenomena in Joji Yuasa's Observations on Weather Forecasts ” - Colin Holter, University of Illinois

10:10 - “Time Song II: Howling through Time” - Stacey Fraser, Assistant Professor, Northern State University, South Dakota

10:45 - “Japanese Composers in the Multicultural U.K. : Identity Tactics and Self-Exoticism” - Yumi Hara Cawkwell, Lecturer, University of East London, UK

11:20 - “Ma (sense of time and space) as Compositional Tool” - Airi Yoshioka, Assistant Professor, UMBC

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1:40 - “Flute Works of Toshio Hosokawa” - Antares Boyle, Sydney Conservatorium, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

 

Room 011:

2:25 - “Composing for Shakuhachi and 21-String Koto” - Marty Regan, U. of Hawaii , Manoa

3:00 - “Style and Politics in Kosaku Yamada's Folksong Arrangements 1917-1950" - David Pacun, Assistant Professor, Ithaca College

3:35 - “A Japanese Zero-Hour? Postwar Music and the Re-Making of the Past” - Fuyuko Fukunaka, Lecturer, Keio U. , Tokyo, JAPAN

 

Recital Hall:

4:25-4:55 RECITAL – Retsuzan Tanabe (shakuhachi)

5:10-6:20 CONCERT – computer music from Japan

Wave Mechanics II - Karen Tanaka (Airi Yoshioka – violin)

Wandering Finger - Daichi Ando

Figure in Movement - Shintaro Imai

Labyrinth - Takayuki Rai

Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly - Hideko Kawamoto

Die Passion der Matthaus-Passion - Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Shizuku no Suzushi - Naotoshi Osaka

RoboticMusic (VIDEO) - Suguru Goto

Sensors/Sonics/ Sig hts (VIDEO) - Atau Tanaka

 

8:30 - CONCERT

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Saturday, March 31:

FA Room 011:

9 AM - “Zenshin kore mimi nari : To be all ears” - Yann Leblanc, Lumiere Lyon 2 University, FRANCE

9:35 - “Modes of Listening in Tokyo 's Avant-Garde Music Community” - Lorraine Plourde, Columbia University, NY

10:10 - “Ring My Bell : Cell Phones and the Japanese Music Market” - Noriko Manabe, CUNY Graduate Center, NY

10:45 - “Forte's Set Complex, My Superset/Subset Network: A Set-Theoretical Excursion into Takemitsu's Japanese Garden” - Hideaki Onishi, Assistant Professor, National University of SINGAPORE

11:20 - “Music in the Bathtub: Reading Takemitsu's Music Through Western Criticism" - Peter Burt, The Open University, Vienna, AUSTRIA

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1:15 - “Beyond Tradition: Composer Toru Takemitsu and the Sound of sawari ” - Mitsuko Ono, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, JAPAN

 

Lectures by guest composers

1:50 Hiroyuki Yamamoto - “The Grey Area of Music and Hearing”

2:35 Shirotomo Aizawa - “ Hogaku and Western Music Through the Shakuhachi ”

3:20 Hiroyuki Itoh - “Swaying Time, Trembling Time”

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4:15 - “Transitions in the Piano Music of Keiko Fujiie” - Margaret Lucia, Associate Professor, Shippensburg University, PA

4:50 - “A Comparison of the works for Flute, Viola, and Harp by Toru Takemitsu and Claude Debussy” - Shuri Okajima, University of Arizona

5:25 - “Kongoseki\Kongoseki Variations” - John Welsh, University of Maryland, College Park

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Recital Hall:

8:00 - CONCERT

Itoh - Salamander [1995, 2005] (solo flute)

Itoh – Out of a Blaze of Light [2006] (clarinet, piano) [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]

Yamamoto – The Wedge is Struck, the Fog Remains [2006] (clarinet, piano) [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]

Yamamoto – Saxophone The Relay [1999] (alto saxophone solo)

Yamamoto – Matsumorphosis [2001] (violin solo)

Aizawa – Time of Time [2007] (clarinet, percussion) - [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]

Aizawa – Deposition [2007] (shakuhachi, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion) - [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]

 

c.9:15 PM - Panel Discussion with guest composers (immediately following the concert)