Celebrate O - shogatsu, Japanese New Year, at the Boston Children's Museum
with taiko drums, the shishimai lion dance, mochi rice pounding, a chado tea ceremony, and more (Boston)
Not exact matches
and other Japanese compositions, along
with a score by Alexandre Desplat that emphasizes thunderous
taiko drumming.
With its battery of
taiko drums rattling away ominously, but also a fluty, buoyant finale, it suggests a missing link between Toru Takemitsu (Dodes» ka - den's legendary composer) and the entirely non-Japanese Henry Mancini.
Hopefully,
with these films offering a double feature, we can go beyond the sumo wrestling and
taiko drums to get a fuller sense of that place.
Meanwhile, Alexandre Desplat's score mixes
taiko drums with weirdly jazzy woodwind, while the woozy tones of the 60s West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band rub up against Prokofiev and nods to Seven Samurai.
The event kicks off
with a mini procession at Kapiolani Park, featuring a
taiko drum performance.