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SUMMARY:Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Rev
	. Tom Kurai
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of music and memories to celebrate UCL
	A’s acquisition and digitization of Rev. Shuichi Thomas Kurai’s audiovisua
	l holdings. Rev. Tom was a well-known taiko teacher and performer in the g
	reater Los Angeles area as well as a Soto Zen priest. Taiko is a tradition
	 of Japanese drumming that is immensely popular in Japan\, North America\,
	 and Europe. For Japanese Americans\, taiko is a heritage practice and a s
	ite of intense contemporary creativity. Rev. Tom was known for both. We wi
	ll share footage from his extensive personal video collection documenting 
	forty years of his activities as a taiko master. His former student\, ethn
	omusicologist Deborah Wong\, will provide a short keynote\, followed by ta
	iko performances by the Taiko Center of Los Angeles (Rev. Tom’s ensemble\,
	 now led by Maceo Hernandez) and UC Riverside’s Senryu Taiko. Rev. Gyokei 
	Yokoyama from Sozenji Buddhist Temple will provide a blessing. Also perfor
	ming will be Terry Nguyen (UCR’s current taiko instructor) and Shih-Wei Wu
	 (a former student of Rev. Tom’s).\n\nThe Taiko Center of Los Angeles (TCL
	A) was founded by Reverend Shuichi Thomas Kurai in 1996. It members perfor
	m throughout Southern California\, the U.S.\, and in Japan as well. Maceo 
	Hernandez has served as its Artistic Director since 2018.\n\nSenryu Taiko 
	is an intercollegiate Taiko group\, meaning that it was founded and has be
	en maintained by college students. There are countless other intercollegia
	te Taiko groups throughout North America\, and nearly every University of 
	California campus is home to an intercollegiate Taiko group. Senryu Taiko 
	is composed of college students who have spent a year or more learning Tai
	ko-playing techniques and applied those techniques to teaching newcomers a
	nd writing Taiko music exclusive to Senryu Taiko. One unique aspect of Sen
	ryu Taiko\, an aspect that is rare amongst the intercollegiate Taiko commu
	nity\, is that members of the group build the Taiko used in rehearsal and 
	performance. Thus\, Senryu Taiko does not purchase professional\, manufact
	ured Taiko\, but instead builds Taiko from scratch using wine-barrels and 
	traditional Taiko-making techniques.\n\nKeynote Speaker: Deborah Wong\n\nD
	eborah Wong is an ethnomusicologist\, Professor of Music at the University
	 of California\, Riverside\, and the chair of UCR’s Department Ethnic Stud
	ies for AY 2023-24. She has written three books: Louder and Faster: Pain\,
	 Joy\, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko (2019)\, Speak It Loud
	er: Asian Americans Making Music (2004)\, and Sounding the Center: History
	 and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual (2001). She served as editor for N
	obuko Miyamoto’s extraordinary memoir\, Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of
	 Relocation\, Race\, Love\, and Revolution (2021). With Sherrie Tucker and
	 Jeremy Wallach\, she is a series editor for the Wesleyan University Press
	 Music/Culture series. Active in public sector work at the national\, stat
	e\, and local levels\, she serves on the boards of the Chinese American Mu
	seum DC and Great Leap. Her happiest hours of the week are spent going on 
	air with her weekly radio show Gold Mountain for KUCR 88.3 FM in Riverside
	. She was a member of the Taiko Center of Los Angeles for many years and s
	till dances bon-odori every summer in Southern California Obon gatherings.
	 She worked with Garrett Kurai to house Rev. Tom Kurai’s extensive persona
	l archive at UCR\, UCLA\, and the Japanese American National Museum.\n\nTh
	is event is co-sponsored by the UC Riverside Department of Music\, the UCL
	A Center for Community Engagement\, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
	\, the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies\, and 
	the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.\n\nEvent Website: https://schoolofmusic.
	ucla.edu/event/music-alive-in-the-archive-celebrating-the-music-and-legacy
	-of-rev-tom-kurai/\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/aa667cbc-3e
	32-4b8f-8541-bdb6f2ba8210
LOCATION:Lani Hall - Schoenberg Music Building
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