COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M hosted the eighth World Shakuhachi Festival, celebrating the Japanese bamboo flute’s music and culture. People gathered in Bryan-College Station to perform, ...

Combining the haunting sounds of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) with the musical language of the West, this concert features classic Zen Buddhist music and works by Minoru Miki and James ...

California native Bruce Huebner fell in love with the shakuhachi flute as a young man, and in the subsequent decades he has become an accomplished composer, performer, and teacher of the traditional ...

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Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San Gabriel ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Silence in music rarely, if ever, gets much attention. Audiences generally see the stars of the show as the sounds, the chords, the ...

Playing the flute in America used to mean heavy doses of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Pick up the flute today, however, and chances are you’ll be whistling a new tune–or perhaps even blowing into an ...

Two years after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the people of Japan continue to grieve the loss of loved ones, grapple with the enormity of rebuilding, and find comfort in the ties that ...