Guest Artist Yoshinobu Taniguchi Performs Japanese Flute Music March 13 by Charity Johnson ’99
			Yoshinobu Taniguchi Yoshinobu Taniguchi will perform Japanese flute music in a free, public concert Tuesday, March 13, at 8 p.m. in Kulas Recital Hall. The concert is sponsored by the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association and the James Hall Fund for Musicology. Taniguchi taught shakuhachi flute (a five-holed vertical flute made of stout bamboo) at Oberlin in 1983 and 1984. Upon returning to his native Kyoto, Taniguchi continued to teach and perform. This is his first visit to the United States since teaching at Oberlin. The shakuhachi repertoire was developed in Japan by monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism from the 17th to 19th centuries. Today, numerous pedagogues representing different schools of playing teach the instrument in the traditional, rote manner. Taniguchi will be joined by Michael Chikuzen Gould, who taught shakuhachi at Oberlin as an Exco course from 1997-98, and spent ten years as Taniguchi’s student, earning the title of "Chikuzen."
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