Sunday, March 8, 2020
The Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Music – Glories of the Japanese Music Heritage XV “Women Who Made/Make Music”
To honor Sukeyasu Shiba (1935-2019), founder of Reigakusha, mentor to our mentors, and composer for heritage instruments the Columbia Gagaku Ensemble of New York and renowned visiting artists present great classics he loved as well as his own work in Part I. Part II celebrates the Women’s History Month with world premieres of Elizabeth Brown’s homage to composer-nun Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) inspired by lyrics of Otomae (1086?-1169) and other pieces by Ayumi Shimonoto and Evelyn Troester DeGraf by imagining a meeting of Otomae and Hildegard von Bingen (1098?-1179) in “Hildegard Meets Otomae.” The concert is free and open to the…
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
Spring 2020 Semester first classes
https://www.imjs-jchi.org/emajin-project-gagaku-hogaku-at-columbia/ Japanese Early Modern Salon Music (Hōgaku) MPP UN1551 Section 003 Shakuhachi Thursdays 3:00-4:30PM Dodge 112 MPP UN1551 Section 004 Koto Thursdays 3:00-4:30PM Dodge 112 Japanese Court & Sacred Music (Gagaku) Ensemble MPP UN Section 002 Gagaku Thursdays 6:00-7:30PM Dodge 112 Beginners Welcome. There is no audition but attendance at the first class is required. Email medievaljapan columbia.edu for more information. EMAJIN Initiative Spring 2020 Semester End Recital Date TBA (Later April) Time TBA Venue TBA
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
Fall 2019 Semester first classes
https://www.imjs-jchi.org/emajin-project-gagaku-hogaku-at-columbia/ Japanese Early Modern Salon Music (Hōgaku) MPP UN1551 Section 003 Shakuhachi Thursdays 3:00-4:30PM Dodge 112 MPP UN1551 Section 004 Koto Thursdays 3:00-4:30PM Dodge 112 Japanese Court & Sacred Music (Gagaku) Ensemble MPP UN Section 002 Gagaku Thursdays 6:00-7:30PM Dodge 112 Beginners Welcome. There is no audition but attendance at the first class is required. Email medievaljapan columbia.edu for more information.
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Sunday, March 31, 2019
The Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Music – Glories of Japanese Music Heritage XIV
Butterflies (Kochō) from The Tale of Genji The Mary Briggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York We celebrate the cultures of Heian and Heisei Eras with a concert presenting music Lady Murasaki describes in her 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji, (in collaboration with the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the 2019 Sung Waka Poetry by the Retiring Emperor and Empress of this Heisei Era from their January New Year Poetry Celebration. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM (PDF) Come hear this music brought to life again…
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
50th Anniversary Concert: Wagakki Renaissance
Celebratory Tokyo Concert Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives (founded in 1968) Columbia University Thursday, November 8, 2018 at Yomiuri Ōtemachi Hall (Yomiuri Shimbun Tokyo HQ Bldg., 5th Floor) 1-7-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Program Tsuru no sugomori (Nesting of Cranes) Shakuhachi: John Kaizan Neptune Hyōjō no netori & Etenraku (Sacred Court Music: Music of the Divine Heavens) Columbia Gagaku Ensemble members, joined by Mayumi Miyata Shō: Mayumi Miyata, Zachary Seligman Karen Hichiriki: Devon Tipp, Lucie Vitkova Ryūteki: Lish Lindsey, Cole Wagner Improvisation on Etenraku Shakuhachi: John Kaizan Neptune Mitsudo (Density)…
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Saturday, March 31, 2018
EMAJIN Initiative 13th Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Musical Instruments
Celebrating the 50th Year of the IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives The concert is free and open to the public, but please register online here Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated and can be made with a credit card online here. PROGRAM Part I Gagaku: Sacred Soundscapes Reborn Hyōjō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of E) Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heavens) Banshikichō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of B) Kashin/ (This Auspicious Day) Seigaiha (Blue Sea Waves) Part II Contemporary Works for Japanese Heritage Instruments Tadahisa Nakamura, Correspondences (2017) for bass clarinet, 17-string (bass) koto (U.S. Premiere) Winner of the 9th…
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
EMAJIN Initiative Spring 2017 Semester-End Concert
No reservations required. We will be celebrating the Institute's 50th anniversary throughout 2018. DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM (PDF)
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
EMAJIN Initiaitve Fall 2016 Semester-End Concert
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In May 2007, Columbia University’s Gagaku-Hōgaku Classical Japanese Music Curriculum and Performance Program announced its first Mentor/Protégé Gagaku Summer Initiative, a six-week program in Tokyo where Columbia’s most promising gagaku students receive private instruction from gagaku masters.
In conjunction with the Gagaku-Hōgaku Classical Japanese Music Curriculum and Performance Program at Columbia University, launched in September 2006, the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies presents several public gagaku concerts and instrumental workshops to introduce the ancient music of Japan to a greater audience at Columbia University and in New York.
