Traditional Music from China and Japan |
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Because of the richness of our Los Angeles environs, both in architecture and in culture, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the unusual setting for this ancient music from China and Japan is an architecturally significant building in old town Pasadena whose inner walls are the usual home for cutting edge modern art. |
| Date: Friday, September 30, 2005
Time: 8:00pm Venue: The Armory Center for the Arts Address: 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 Ticket price(s): $10 general admission; $5 seniors and students; Armory members free
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The Armory Center for the Arts and the Pacific Asia Museum together present Bamboo and Silk, an
evening of traditional music from China and Japan. For this performance, Bill Shozan Schultz plays
the centuries old music of meditating Zen monks, Honkyoku, on the shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown
bamboo flute. Performing on the sheng, an instrument with a 2,000-year history that consists of
numerous bamboo pipes, Qi-Chao Liu also plays the silk stringed violin-like erhu that is bowed
while held in an upright position.