Jon Sobel of Blogcritics reviews Cassatt String Quartet and Kyo-Shin-An Arts

Concert Review: ‘Kammerraku Promise’ — Cassatt String Quartet with Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto) and James Nyoraku Schlefer (shakuhachi)

“Some of the most fertile of musical cauldrons are those where instruments and traditions from distant cultures mingle and conjugate. Such was the case at the Tenri Cultural Institute on Sunday, when Kyo-Shin-An Arts and three composers brought together the venerable Cassatt String Quartet with masters of the Shakuhachi, the traditional bamboo flute, and the Koto, the Japanese zither with movable bridges. Two original compositions and one arrangement of a traditional song added up to a scintillating and stimulating cultural melting pot.”

Jon Sobel, Blogcritics
Reviewed 10/13/2023
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