Look & Listen: Nature in Japanese Art and Music

#LookandListen Look & Listen: Nature in Japanese Art and Music, Kurahashi Yodo II, shakuhachi, with curator Frank Feltens Travel to misty mountain valleys and foggy ocean beaches through the eyes of great Japanese artists from the sixteenth century on, accompanied by the sounds of the shakuhachi (bamboo flute), in this exploration of nature as an inspiration for Japanese art and music. Paintings and shakuhachi pieces that evoke the distant sound of bells and the autumn cry of deer will expand on the indirect and abstract references to nature often found in art and music. Our guides will be the venerable virtuoso Kurahashi Yodo II, direct from Tokyo, and curator Frank Feltens, whose recent exhibitions have explored Shinto religious art, Hokusai, and modern woodblock prints.    Kurahashi Yodo II has performed internationally on shakuhachi for more than fifty years, touring in China, Malaysia, Canada, Israel, Bermuda, Australia, and throughout Europe and the United States. He is deeply schooled in the tradi