Monday, March 18, 2019

March 31st, 2019: Performance at Columbia University, NYC of "Frolicking with the Birds"

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Duo Yumeno has been invited to join other musicians performing at the annual concert series hosted by IMJS. They will perform "Frolicking with the Birds" in part III of the concert.

Miller Theater at Columbia University, NYC on Sunday, March 31, 2019, 4PM.

https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/the-annual-concert-of-japanese-heritage-music-glories-of-japanese-music-heritage-xiv/

Program

PART I. GAGAKU: SACRED SOUNDSCAPES REBORN

Hyōjō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of E)
Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heavens)

PART II. MUSIC FROM LADY MURASAKI’S 11TH-CENTURY NOVEL
THE TALE OF GENJI

Saibara: Ise no umi (The Sea at Ise)
Ichikotsuchō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of D)
Shunnōden Juha (Spring Song of the Bush Warbler)
Koma-Ichikotsuchō no ko-netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of E)
Kochō (Butterflies)

PART III. THE MUSIC HERITAGE LIVES ON

Kengyō Yoshizawa II, Chidori no kyoku (Plovers’ Song) (1855)
Marty Regan, Frolicking with Birds (2011)
Utakai Hajime Poems by the Present/Retiring Emperor and Empress (2019)