Our friends at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum have launched a weblog called Before and After, and I'm trying to think of a proper welcome. Should we roast a pig or something?
In today's post, Phil James talks about shakuhachi music, as he'll be playing solos and duets with koto player Cathleen Read in the courtyard at After Hours tomorrow evening, September 20, from 5:00-7:00pm as part of a "Journey to the East" program highlighting Asian art in the galleries. The shakuhachi is a bamboo flute, for those of you who don't already know, and since some of you are likely curious about this instrument (I hadn't thought about the instrument in years...don't I have a shakuhachi record somewhere?) or want to know more about James, let me recommend: Phil James' Nyokai-an Shakuhachi dojo web site (there's a shokuhachi .mp3 on the front page), his electronic music site, 9revolt, a blog about the shakuhachi, Shakuhachi Chamber Music International, and the International Myspace Shakuhachi Society. All places I would not have thought to visit before Before and After put me on the path to enlightenment.
In any case, though there are few posts as yet, it's a lovely blog, very nicely designed (fine! raise the bar!) and I have reason to think, will be consistently well written. Check out Before and After, and tell 'em Aisle Be Seeing You sent ya'!
No pig roast necessary, Jack. The pointer about the International MySpace Shakuhachi Society is present enough.
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