Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

Your chance to gaze through a window into a far-away culture is coming up next week in Grusin Music Hall. Led by instructor Mami Itasaka-Keister, the Japanese Ensemble takes the stage in a flurry of ...

Pro Musica Nipponia is a group of leading composers and musicians devoted to performing classical and contemporary compositions from Japan and the West. The ensemble’s unique feature is that all music ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Japanese musical instruments have taken on a new shine after one group decided to make theirs out of glass, instead of traditional wood. Drums and flutes play a major ...

Nearly 50 musicians filled the stage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sunday for “Between Silence and Strauss,” a cross-cultural performance by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. Highlighting the ...

The same five o’clock concert that offered up the bizarre improvisation began with a similarly odd introduction to traditional Japanese music. Three Western ethno-musicologists were our guides to the ...

KINGSTON — Music from around the world is a mouse click away. For musician Jamie Orfanella, world music is in between his fingertips. Orfanella spent 10 years learning the art of the Japanese ...