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Past Lectures and Research Meetings

Comprehensive Research Project on Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture

  Speakers and Topics Moderator Date
1 - - - - KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS Oct.13,
2005
2 Beyond the Categories of Japanese Music and Western Music
1. Lecture
“ Traditional Culture and Our Own Times: Aiming for Plural Globalism” KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS
2. Workshop
“ The Integration of the Noh Flute into Western Orchestral Music and the Transcendence of that Integration”
Talk by the composer: TAKENOUCHI Motoaki, Composer
Commentator: FUJITA Takanori, Assoc. Prof., Kyoto City University of Arts / HOSOKAWA Shuhei, Prof., IRCJS
Coodinator: KASAYA Kazuhiko		 Frederic CRYNS
Assoc. Prof, IRCJS		 Feb. 15, 2008
3 A Feast of Noh Music and Western Music for Orchestra
1. “A Performance in Traditional Style by Noh Musical Instruments”
2. “A Performance by Noh Musical Instruments and Western Orchestra in Concert”
Noh Musicians: Fue (Noh Flute), Sugi Shintarō; Kotsuzumi (Small Hand Drum), Sowa Naoyasu; Ōtsuzumi (Large Hand Drum), Taniguchi Yūji; Taiko (Drum), Maekawa Mitsunori /Composer: TAKENOUCHI Motoaki		 KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS Feb. 25, 2009
4 The Two Marias and Aoinoue
[Round-Table Discussion]
“The Two Marias and Aoinoue”
FURUSAWA Ufo, Iemoto of the Furusawa School; UEMURA Toshifumi, Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS/ Assoc. Prof., Japan Lutheran College; KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS
[Performance]
Drama: “Mary Magdalane and Aoinoue” (World Premier)
Dance performanced by: FURUSAWA Ufo
Director: UEMURA Toshifumi
Composer: HARA Yuki
Waka Chanting: HAYASHI Kojun, Head of Kunko Koga School
Fue (Japanese Flute) played by: Unryu
Didjeridu played by: KNOB
Special Guest: OUCHIYAMA Koga, Iemoto of Kunko Koga School		 KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS Nov. 27, 2009
5 [Music Seminor] Possibilities for Noh chant and Orchestra Ensemble: a Performance of "Gion-shohja" from the Tale of Heike
1. “‘Gion-shohja’ Performed by Noh Chant”
Commentator: KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS
2. “‘Gion-shohja’ Arranged for Noh Chant and Orchestra”
Commentator: TAKENOUCHI Motoaki, Composer
*Music composision by TAKENOUCHI Motoaki, Noh chant arranged by KASAYA Kazuhiko
*Music by CD		 KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS Feb. 17, 2010
6 Noh Chant and Orchestra Ensemble Performance of "Kokaji"
1. [Exposition] “Noh Composition and Musical Characteristics”
KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS
2. [Performance] “Noh Drama ‘Kokaji’ Performed with Western Musical Orchestration”
TAKENOUCHI Motoaki, Comporser		 KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS Feb. 23, 2011

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