Archive for April 17th, 2003

Shamisen Shell Shock

Continuing on my recent interest in worldly music, I ventured across the Pacific on Sunday to land my ears upon the island of Japan. Playing at the Indiana University Mathers Museum was Master Baisho Matsumoto and Molly Adkins Jeon, a Japanese folksinger and ethnomusicologist. Master Matsumoto enthralled the small audience with his jovial personality and [...]