#2025: Program #2025

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
Tune in to New Sounds for a program of American music for Japanese and Indian flutes. James Nyoraku Schlefer is a master of the shakuhachi, or Japanese bamboo flute. In addition to serving as the head of the Kyo-Shin-An Shakuhachi Dojo, where students are instructed in the ancient way, Schlefer regularly performs in the style of the wandering monks who made it a world-renowned aid for spiritual enlightenment. Plus, hear a live studio performance of music by bansuri player Steve Gorn, one of the few western musicians to have captured the subtlety and beauty of Indian music.

PROGRAM #2025, with Steve Gorn and James Nyoraku Schlefer (First aired on 3/28/02)

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SOURCE

Steve Gorn & James Nyoraku Schlefer

live

Raga Rajashwari [10:30]

Gorn's recordings of Indian classical music for the bansuri flute are available through www.stevegorn.com .

James Nyoraku Schlefer

live

Miyami, excerpt [2:30]

Schlefer's recordings of Japanese shakuhachi flute music are available at http://www.sparklingbeatnik.com Miyami is on the album Solstice Spirit.

Steve Gorn

live

Raga Basant, excerpt [5:00]

See above.

Steve Gorn & James Nyoraku Schlefer

live

Kumoijishi - Lion's Dance [7:00]

See above. This piece is on the CD Wind Heart.

R. Carlos Nakai, Nawang Khechog, et. al.

In A Distant Place

As Long As The Grass Grows [6:00]

Canyon Records #7042. www.canyonrecords.com ; canyon@canyonrecords.com ; 1-800-268-1141

Paul Horn

Tibet - Journey To The Roof Of The World

Morning Prayer [4:30]

Transparent Music #500042** www.transparentmusic.com *

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