Marco Lienhard
Satsuki (Month of May)
Odori (Summer Festival)
Utsu Hachijo (Song from the Island of Hachijo)
Lienhard
Eisa (Okinawan Festival)
Odaiko (Big Drum)
Chichibu Yatai Bayashi (Chichibu Festival Drum Song)
The Musicians:
Founded in 1995 in New York City by members of Ondekoza, a performance group credited with the renaissance of Taiko, the art of Japanese drumming, in Japan during the 1960s, Taikoza draws its creative performances from Japan’s rich musical tradition. The ensemble has created a new sound, using a variety of traditional instruments. In addition to drums of assorted sizes, Taikoza incorporates the shakuhachi and the fue (both bamboo flutes). The group has toured internationally and has appeared on broadcasts by espn, the History Channel, nbc, and Russian National Television. Taikoza’s music is featured on Nintendo’s Wii game Red Steel 1 and 2.
The ensemble’s coach, fue and shakuhachi master Marco Lienhard, studied under Japanese masters Teruo Furuya and Katsuya Yokoyama. Participating in today’s performance are Malika Duckworth, Kenji Nakano, Kristy Oshiro, Chikako Saito, and Yoshiko Taniguchi. Taikoza maintains a website at www.taikoza.com and appears at the National Gallery of Art by arrangement with Musicians Corporate Management of Highland, New York, www.mcmarts.com.
Program Notes:
Taiko has been associated with many aspects of Japanese culture since ancient times. Fifth-century clay dolls holding drums and images of drums in seventh century poems and paintings are evidence that Taiko was an integral part of Japanese culture for the past fifteen centuries. It is said that drumming was used to drive away the plague and evil spirits. In the Shinto religion it was used to call upon and entertain the gods (kami ), and in Japanese Buddhism its sound was the manifestation of the voice of the Buddha. Both noblemen and commoners played and listened to Taiko, which could be found in imperial court orchestras, in Kabuki ...More...
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