When thinking of the instruments that usually accompany a choral work, one might immediately list piano, organ, a wind instrument or two, or perhaps strings. How about the Koto? Wait . . . Koto!? That’s not an instrument that comes to mind. Though it’s a beautiful and haunting instrument, there aren’t a lot of Koto majors running around the halls at the local college’s music school.
Nevertheless, here is a performance of a work for mixed chorus and Koto from a recent ACDA Divisional Conference. (We will continue this exploration of Japanese choral music tomorrow on ChoralBuzz in “CJ Replay;” featuring an excerpt from the Choral Journal.)
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