Yamatogaku Lecture and Demonstration

Saturday, November 17 at 3:00 p.m.

Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101, (626) 449-2742, www.pacificasiamuseum.org

 

 

Prof. Robert Garfias, Ethunomusicology, University of California, Irvine

 

Yamatogaku is a fusion of traditional Japanese instruments and Western singing style, created by Baron Okura Kishichiro in 1933 in Tokyo.

 

A rare opportunity of this hybrid Japanese traditional music will be materialized on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at James Armstrong Theatre in Torrance by visiting of twelve Yamatogaku School players with the Headmaster Yamato Hisamitsu.

 

Prof. Robert Garfias, ethunomusicology specialist in UC Irvine, will explain about the traditional Japanese music and features of the Yamatogaku with guest performers of Minyo singer Marisa Kosugi and a Japanese classical dancer from Bando Mitsuhiro Kai in Los Angeles.

 

Free with museum admission.