Topic: Shakuhachi
Friday, September 30
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103
Cost: $10 general admission; $5 seniors and students; Armory members free
Tel: (626) 792-5101 x117, www.armoryarts.org
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Traditional Music from China and Japan. 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.
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.
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