Koto & Shakuhachi Concert at the Smithsonian
On February 19, the Freer and Sackler Galleries will present A Century of New Music for Koto and Shakuhachi, with Akikazu Nakamura and Michiyo Yagi. The concert will take place at 3 pm in the Meyer Auditorium.
Nakamura and Yagi will explore the fascinating influence of Western music on Japanese composers in the early twentieth century, a process that paralleled the transformative effect of Japanese art on Western painters and collectors, such as Freer. Shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura and koto virtuoso Michiyo Yagi will be joined by Anne Prescott, a koto player and ethnomusicologist at Indiana University who specializes in early twentieth-century Japanese composers. Their program will range from Michio Miyagi's 1929 Spring Sea to more recent works by Tadao Sawai, Akira Nishimura, and Masao Endo.
Free tickets are required for most concerts in the Meyer Auditorium. You can reserve up to four tickets by contacting Ticketmaster. Limited tickets (up to two per person) are distributed at the auditorium one hour before the event begins.
Nakamura and Yagi will explore the fascinating influence of Western music on Japanese composers in the early twentieth century, a process that paralleled the transformative effect of Japanese art on Western painters and collectors, such as Freer. Shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura and koto virtuoso Michiyo Yagi will be joined by Anne Prescott, a koto player and ethnomusicologist at Indiana University who specializes in early twentieth-century Japanese composers. Their program will range from Michio Miyagi's 1929 Spring Sea to more recent works by Tadao Sawai, Akira Nishimura, and Masao Endo.
Free tickets are required for most concerts in the Meyer Auditorium. You can reserve up to four tickets by contacting Ticketmaster. Limited tickets (up to two per person) are distributed at the auditorium one hour before the event begins.
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