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Opening Day Events
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Shakuhachi Odyssey:
The World of Shakuhachi with Drums, Drama & Dance
A plotted performance that takes
the audience on a musical journey with the shakuhachi, featuring
aspects of its Zen origins and history, its classical and modern
Japanese traditions, and the new geographical and musical directions
it moves in today. A collaboration of top shakuhachi artists from
Japan and the U.S., Helander Dance Theater, Denver Taiko and other
local musicians.
Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder - Tuesday, July 7th
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Shakuhachi at Chautauqua
This gala concert of the festival
featured Jazz with John Kaizan Neptune & Friends, contemporary
works by the Tokyo Modern Shakuhachi Ensemble, Katsuya Yokoyama
and his Chikushin-kai group and others. Three hundred shakuhachi
players from around the world raised Chautauqua's roof in the
special work for shakuhachi orchestra.
Chautaqua Auditorium, Boulder - Wednesday, July 8th
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Living Treasures
of Japan
The World's Greatest
Shakuhachi Recital. Led by Living National Treasure Goro Yamaguchi,
the five greatest masters of the shakuhachi in the world today
along with top accompanists from Japan presented the festival's
finale concert performing their signature works in solo and ensemble.
Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver - Thursday, July 9th
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Master Classes
During the week of the Festival,
each of the five esteemed teachers taught a group class covering
one of the traditional honkyoku pieces. Yamaguchi Sensei: Shika
no Tone; Yokoyama Sensei: Sanya; Yamamoto Sensei: Tsuru no Sugomori;
Aoki Sensei: Sokaku Reibo; Araki Sensei: Yoshiya Reibo.
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Workshops and Beginner
Classes
These numerous workshops and classes covered every conceivable
aspect of shakuhachi: performance tips, practice techniques, meditation,
reading notation, breathing, body & breath, musical composition,
shakuhachi making as well as many scholarly lectures dealing with
the philosophy and history of the shakuhachi.
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Shakuhachi Makers
Venue
Shakuhachi craftsmen from Japan
and America as well as makers of other bamboo flutes set up booths
to display and sell their instruments.
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Closing Banquet - Saturday, July 11th
A gala finale to a very special week in Boulder.
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Read Stuart Goodnick's report of the Festival, Bells Ringing in the Empty Sky of Boulder
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