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The Buddha on the Mantle and My Path to Việt Nam

01 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by Jeff von der Schmidt in Composers, Contemporary Music, Hanoi, LA International New Music Festival, Los Angeles, Music, Southwest Chamber Music, Travel, Vietnam, Vu Nhat Tan

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Asia, Buddhism, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Hanoi, Joan Huang, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kent Nagano, Kim Ngoc Tran, LA International New Music Festival, Momo Kodama, Nguyen Thien Dao, Olivier Messiaen, Randy Schoenberg, Song Hong Ensemble of Hanoi, Southwest Chamber Music, Tetsuji Honna, Vietnam, Vu Nhat Tan, William Kraft

The new Old Quarter Cultural Exchange will host the first concert of the Hanoi New Music Ensemble on October 25.

The new Old Quarter Cultural Exchange will host the first concert of the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble on October 25.

Why Việt Nam?

Jan and I are looking forward to going to Hà Nội soon, and I’m excited to announce the inaugural concerts of the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble as we begin our roles as artistic advisors to this new group and the Hà Nội Philharmonic Orchestra in October. The concerts are October 25 at the new Old Quarter Cultural Exchange, October 29 at the Manzi Art Space and October 31 in the Grand Hall of the Việt Nam National Academy of Music.

One thing, as they say, leads to another. But why Việt Nam?

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A Dream Window With My Japanese Friends

23 Tuesday Sep 2014

Posted by Jeff von der Schmidt in Composers, Contemporary Music, Food, Kyoto, LA International New Music Festival, Los Angeles, Music, Travel, Uncategorized

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Dream/Window, Ichiro Nodaira, Kent Nagano, Kyoto, Los Angeles International New Music Festival, Mari Kodama, Momo Kodama, Nguyen Thien Dao, Saiho-ji Temple, San Francisco, Tetsuji Honna, Toshio Hosokawa, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra

At Saihoji Temple in Kyoto.

At Saiho-ji Temple in Kyoto.

“With all the changes in the world, the world never changes.” Toru Takemitsu

As Autumn begins, I’ve been thinking of Japan, our friends here in California and over the Pacific in Japan.  Though I’m at home in Pasadena, I’ve wanted to share with you a tour that Jan and I experienced in 2013 at Saiho-ji Temple in Kyoto, I hope a good introduction to our reunion with friends in San Francisco a few weeks ago as I’ll toggle locations in this post.

Home to hundreds of varieties of moss, Saiho-ji was the favorite Zen garden of Toru Takemitsu and inspired his Dream/Window of 1985. Let’s have a look….

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