Conservatory of Music

Month of October

• Exhibition: "Contemporary Japanese Prints from the Ren Brown and Don Soker Galleries"
  Hours: Tue-Fri 9-5, Sat-Sun 1-5 (on view through November 3)
  Reynolds Gallery

Saturday, October 20th

• 1:30 p.m. Award Ceremony for the University of the Pacific Japanese Festival Manga/Anime Drawing Contest – William Knox Holt Memorial Library, Community Room

Tuesday, October 23rd

• 12:00 p.m. – Presentation by Francois Rose “Understanding Japanese Culture” – Recital Hall

Wednesday, October 24th

• 2:00 p.m. – Shakuhachi presentation by Master Kurahashi – Recital Hall
• 5:00 p.m. – Japanese Dinner – Grace Covell
  $15, $10/students. reservations:  Sally DeLorenzo
• 7:30 p.m. – Concert of Traditional Japanese music featuring the shakuhachi master Yoshio Kurahashi, koto player Yoko Hirano-Itatani and the sangen player Ayako Kurahashi – Faye Spanos Concert Hall.
  General admission $8, seniors $4, free to students with ID

Thursday, October 25th

• 12:00 p.m. – Lecture by Diane Borden “Kurosawa and World Cinema” – WPC-140
• 5:30 p.m. – Presentation by gallerist Ren Brown in association with the Contemporary Japanese Prints Exhibition. Free public reception featuring Japanese cuisine. – Reynolds Gallery
• 8:00 p.m. – Movie, “Throne of Blood” by Akira Kurosawa – Pacific Theater
  General admission $5, faculty, staff $3, free to students with ID.
  Free admission for the first forty people to arrive.

Friday, October 26th

• 2:00 p.m. – Presentations: by visiting composers – Recital Hall
  “Music as a reflection of the composer’s cosmology” by Joji Yuasa
  “music and new media” by Kiyoshi Furukawa
• 3:30 p.m. & 5:30p.m. – Tea Ceremony hosted by the Tea Master Mrs. Aiko Mikami - William Knox Holt Memorial Library, Community Room.
  Limited seating, reservations:  Sally DeLorenzo
• 7:30 p.m. – Concert of New Japanese music by Joji Yuasa and Kiyoshi Furukawa, featuring among others: Frank Wiens - piano, Patricia Shands - clarinet, Mat Krejci - flute, Nina Flyer - cello, Igor Veligan - violin, Sonia Leong - piano, Margaret Perry - piano. – Faye Spanos Concert Hall
  General admission $8, seniors $4, free to students with ID.

Friday, November 2nd

• 2:00 p.m. – Lecture by Julie Otsuka, author of “When the Emperor was divine” – Pacific Theater

All of the above events are open to the public, and are free except when indicated otherwise. For more information, call the Conservatory of Music at 209.946.2415 or visit http://go.pacific.edu/JapaneseFestival