[Dhsbb-jazz] FW: BETTER INFO: Sister City Band Concert and Davis/Inuyama 10th Anniversary Celebration

[J and J Hamaguchi]

Hi again Band Families and Friends

I have received notice that my previous message comes out as 'gibberish' on some computers.  Better and more replete information on this weekend's Sister City Concert (Sunday, Nov 6th at 3 pm, Veteran's Memorial Theater) has been provided by Maki Kuper.  Read on...
Joyce
Hello Band Members,Below is information about this weekend's concert.  It promises to be very special with the Noh Theater performance group coming from Japan for this event.  I  heard the Sister City Honor Band yesterday and I highly recommend it to all the DHS band students.  It is a very fine ensemble and an opportunity to hear a very good band concert.  In addition the flute choir and Native American flute performers will also be not only good, but interesting to hear different sounds. 

Thanks for coming over to Vets this weekend.  And oh yes, the DHS Japanese Club will have lots of delicious Japanese refreshments for you at intermission.  
Maki Kuper
Band Parent and 10th Anniversary Concert ChairpersonDavis will celebrate its 10th anniversary
of its sister-city relationship with Inuyama, Japan, in a unique, entertaining cultural
exchange concert on Sunday, November 6, at 3:00 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial
Theater (203 East Fourteenth Street, Davis). 
A group of Noh Theater performers will be in Davis to perform in full
Japanese costumes and masks.  The
ensemble includes the Noh flute (rarely heard in the United States), singers,
dancers and drummers who will depict ancient Japanese tales.  Davis will represent American culture with its
Davis Youth Flute Choir and members of the Camellia City Flute Choir under the
direction of Maquette Kuper, and a special Sister City Honor Band with the top
members of Davis High School’s Symphonic Band and UCD’s Concert Band under the
direction of Fredrick Lange and Pete Nowlen. There will all also be a
presentation of the Native American flute by Deborah Pittman.  Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor will be the
MC for the event. Sister City Ambassdor Ruth Asmundson will give her remarks
about the sister city programs (Davis has seven sister cities) and read a
statement from State Senator Lois Wolk. 
Mayor Joe Krovoza will welcome the delegates from Japan.  Friends of Davis president Yoshio Kobayashi
and Friends of Inuyama president Paul Sieracki
will exchange greetings.

The public is invited to learn more about the Noh
flute and Kabuki Theater at a workshop with the Inuyama group on Saturday,
November 5 at 3:00 p.m. in the band room at Davis High School.  Japanese teacher Naoko McHale and students
from the DHS and UCD Japanese Clubs will be on hand to act as
interpreters.  Also, the Friends of Davis
president, Yoshio Kobayashi, who will accompany the group to Davis, will also
be able to act as an interpreter. However, he warns that even modern Japanese
people cannot understand the language of the Noh Theater in that its singers
use the ancient Japanese language. The Noh flute is used in the ensemble
accompaniment for Kabuki music.  The Noh
flute creates a strong, high-pitched timbre generated by a narrower tube that
is inserted inside the flute near the mouth hole.  The holes of the Noh flute are covered with
the middle knuckle of the finger and the player can achieve microtones by
lifting the knuckle slightly from the holes. 
The interesting characteristic of the Noh flute is its powerful, high,
surprising tone, which is often used as a signal in an ensemble when the music
moves to the next phrase.

The Native American flute is an instrument that is
spiritual and prayerful in nature and, like the music of its Japanese
counterpart, it is connected to nature. 
The flute at times can sound like birds twittering.  It has a literal connection with trees (this
flute is made out of wood) which goes all the way back to the legend of how the
Native American flute came to be.  The
story is told in many different traditions, but one interesting version is told
by Indians of Cherokee heritage.  The
story goes that a young man wanted to capture the attention of a beautiful
girl.  He was shown by a woodpecker how
to make a flute:  The termites would eat
the wood and the woodpecker would suck out the termites, leaving holes in the
tree branches.  When the wind blew
through the hollowed-out branches, music would sound.  The young man eventually attracted the girl
through the flute’s music.  The Hopi
Indians have their legendary flute player, Kokopeli, the hunched figure seen in
countless Southwestern souvenirs. The Hopi legend tells that Kokopeli’s flute
music was thought to bring fertility to those who heard it.  

The
whole family of modern flutes will be featured with the Davis Youth and
Camellia City Flute Choirs, including the traditional C flute, piccolo, alto
and bass flutes, and contrabass flute.  The
group will perform Three Japanese Folk
Songs by Bin Kaneda, arranged by Fredrick Lange.  Deborah Pittman and Maquette Kuper will
perform The
Colors Fall,
Duet for Cedar Flute and Silver Flute, from “Spirit Horses” by James DeMars,
and Deborah Pittman will improvise on a variety of Native American flutes.  




The concert will conclude with the Sister City
Honor Band performing Robert Jager’s Esprit
de Corps, Frank Techeli’s Amazing
Grace, Eliott Del Borgo’s The New
American Rhapsody and Robert Smith’s Gemeinhardt
Suite.  The last work was premiered
by the Davis High School Symphonic Band in 1997 and is global in
character.  The first movement, Carousel,  represents the world; the second movement, Telling Stories to the Sea, mimics
African music and is performed by the flute choir and percussion; and the last
movement, Ceremony for Flute and Drum,
mimics Japanese music.  The work features
a solo flute performer, Maquette Kuper, who will play flute, piccolo and alto
flute.  Fredrick Lange, director of DHS
bands, and Pete Nowlen, director of the UCD concert band, each conduct two
works with the combined honor band.




All tickets are $10.00 at the door.  Advanced sale tickets will be available at
Watermelon Music for $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for students.  For further information, call (530) 756-7380.

  		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		  
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