Wooden Fish Ensemble Celebrates the Music of Hyo-shin Na March 7, 2010

March 7, 2010 @ Old First Concerts

4PM

$14-17

1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

415.474.1608

http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/tickets

http://hyo-shinna.com

- Wooden Fish Ensemble Celebrates the Music of Hyo-shin Na -

Koto Ninano (3 kotos)
Koto Music (3 kotos)
Night Procession of the Hundred Demons (3 kotos)
Walking, Walking (piano solo)
Ocean/Shore 2 (clarinet, violin, viola, and cello)

Shoko Hikage, koto
Noriko Tsuboi, koto
Kanoko Nishi, koto
Thomas Schultz, piano
Peter Josheff, clarinet
Terrie Baune, violin
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola
Daniel Reiter, cello





Wooden Fish: the large wooden fish-shaped percussion instrument hanging in Buddhist temples in Korea, struck to announce meal times and to encourage temple residents and visitors to be always awake and mindful, following the example of the open-eyed fish.

Projects of the Wooden Fish Ensemble:
2003 - 65th birthday concerts for Yuji Takahashi; music for koto, shamisen, shakuhachi and piano
2005 - anti-war music for Korean instruments and dancer; Japanese and Korean folk songs
2006 - visiting Korean traditional musicians JeongGaAkHoe; a 60-minute-long piece from 15th century
Korea and Hyo-shin Na's All the Noises in the World
2008 - concerts with Korean piri virtuoso Chi-wan Park; court and folk music of Korea, Hyo-shin Na's
PIA and Frederic Rzewski's Coming Together

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