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Devendra Banhart announces his new album, Ma, out September 13, 2019 on Nonesuch Records. This is Banhart's first album since 2016's Ape in Pink Marble. Ma, bursting with tender, autobiographical vignettes, displays a shift from the sonic experimentation of his previous albums to an intricate, captivating story-telling and emotional intimacy. Banhart favors organic sounds to accompany his voice and guitar, the arrangements bolstered by strings, woodwinds, brass, and keyboards. He also debuts a fantastical, surrealistic video for the first single, 'Kantori Ongaku.' Ma is available to pre-order here. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition print, created and signed by Banhart.

The British Museum has announced a special free display across two locations within the Museum of 15 major Buddhist and Shinto sacred images, to be loaned this autumn from Nara Prefecture in Japan. The works date from the AD 600s through the 1300s and include 5 Japanese National Treasures and 6 Important Cultural Properties. The sacred sculptures and ritual objects from Nara will be displayed together with related important Japanese and Chinese paintings from the collection of the British Museum.

SHI SHI - KEN: The Path of Soul Transcendence is a one-man show about the Samurai Spirit. Kaz Kobayashi brings to the stage during the Hollywood Fringe Festival a one man's journey on becoming a real samurai using a Japnese sword fight choreography, stage combat, contemporary dance, acting, multimedia and original music. Samurai existential philosophy is the underlying theme of Kaz's first ever performance outside of Japan. SHI SHI - KEN: The Path of Soul Transcendence opens Friday, June 21th @ 10pm at Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre at Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Following its release in its native Japan, an all-new Sound! Euphonium story following the Kitauji High School concert band club, from the novels byAyano Takeda, is coming to select U.S. movie theaters nationwide. From Kyoto Animation, the studio that brought you “A Silent Voice,” “Liz and the Blue Bird,” and “Violet Evergarden” comes the long-awaited sequel in the Sound! Euphonium franchise, “Sound! Euphonium: The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day.” With this sequel, series director Tatsuya Ishihara reprises his directorial role to create a film that is sure to delight diehard fans and newcomers alike.

Dubbed 'the most ubiquitous contemporary American playwright whose name you may never have heard' by the Chicago Tribune, Steven Dietz's oeuvre contains nearly forty plays that are frequently produced across the country. With one of his most recent plays, This Random World, Dietz weaves coincidentally-related characters through serendipitous encounters across the globe in this charming, if modest, production by Left Edge Theatre.

La renovación constante de los museos, en busca de herramientas que nutran la experiencia contemplativa y logren una mayor interacción con el público, ha llevado a repensar la función de estos espacios, considerados ejes culturales en donde se desarrollan nuevas prácticas que vigorizan el diálogo con la comunidad. Este es el tema sobre el que versará el Día Internacional de los Museos (DIM), a celebrarse el próximo 18 de mayo.

Boston Baroque presents Monteverdi's final opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, on Friday, April 26th at 7:30pm and on Sunday, April 28th at 3pm at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. These will be the first performances of a new performing edition of the opera by Boston Baroque founder and Music Director Martin Pearlman. The all-star cast includes soprano Amanda Forsythe in the title role and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo making his Boston Baroque debut as Nero.

Today, pianist, producer and composer Mark de Clive-Lowe premiered his video for “Memories of Nanzenji” in Stereogum's “Ugly Beauty” column. Directed by Moni Vargas, the video features dancer Alice Amano interpreting the song through her flowing free-form dance.

From groundbreaking to mainstream, over the last decade KSA has built and promoted a wide body of new classical repertoire combining Japanese and Western instruments.

Four women of color breaking boundaries at Mabou Mines as part of the 2019 SUITE/Space program - Cinthia Chen, Marcelle Davies-Lashley, Cristina Pitter and Edisa Weeks.

Kahchun Wong, 32, Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and first prize winner of the 2016 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, will make his New York Philharmonic debut conducting the orchestra's annual Lunar New Year Concert

Today, pianist, producer and composer Mark de Clive-Lowe premiered his new album Heritage at Hype Machine, ahead of its release this Friday February 8th. For the half-Japanese half-New Zealander who calls Los Angeles home, Heritage is a deeply personal exploration of de Clive-Lowe's ancestry and cultural roots. “Heritage is the idea of transmitting from the past to the future - knowing more about who we are and where we're going by understanding where we come from,” he says. “It's about identity and one's place in the world.”

Four women of color breaking boundaries at Mabou Mines as part of the 2019 SUITE/Space program - Cinthia Chen, Marcelle Davies-Lashley, Cristina Pitter and Edisa Weeks.

Four women of color breaking boundaries at Mabou Mines as part of the 2019 SUITE/Space program - Cinthia Chen, Marcelle Davies-Lashley, Cristina Pitter and Edisa Weeks.

Kahchun Wong, 32, Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and first prize winner of the 2016 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, will make his New York Philharmonic debut conducting the orchestra's annual Lunar New Year Concert on February 6, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. A native of Singapore, Wong is only the second conductor-following Long Yu-given the honor to lead the Philharmonic's annual concert celebration of Asian culture and heritage. This concert also marks Wong's New York conducting debut.

Kahchun Wong, 32, Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and first prize winner of the 2016 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, will make his New York Philharmonic debut conducting the orchestra's annual Lunar New Year Concert

On February 8th, pianist, producer and composer Mark de Clive-Lowe will release his new album Heritage via Ropeadope. For the half-Japanese half-New Zealander who calls Los Angeles home, Heritage is a deeply personal exploration of de Clive-Lowe's ancestry and cultural roots. “Heritage is the idea of transmitting from the past to the future - knowing more about who we are and where we're going by understanding where we come from,” he says. “It's about identity and one's place in the world.”

Japan Society, through its Performing Arts Program, presents a lecture that looks at how the subject of Japanese suicide been expressed through the arts both inside and outside of Japan. 

Asian American musician Jennifer Zhang is bridging cultural borders on the global music scene with the premiere of her new single and accompanying video 'Flying High,' an innovative song exploration that melds American pop music with traditional Chinese instrumentals.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents an incredible evening of jazz featuring the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Yuko Mabuchi Trio for one performance only on January 25, 2019 at 8:00pm. Led by Jazz Master and Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis, the quartet was declared by the Associated Press as "one of the most cohesive, intense small jazz ensembles on the scene today." Quartet members include Joey Calderazzo, piano; Eric Revis, bass; and Justin Faulkner, drums. Opening the program is pianist Yuko Mabuchi whose trio of musicians includes Del Atkins on bass and Bobby Breton on drums.

Global hitmakers Clean Bandit release their RIAA certified Gold album 'What Is Love?' out now via Big Beat Records in the US. Download/Stream HERE A band that thrives on collaborative endeavours, the GRAMMY award winning British trio commanded another brilliantly extensive list of blockbuster vocalists: Zara Larsson, Marina, Luis Fonsi, Demi Lovato, Sean Paul, Anne-Marie, Ellie Goulding,KYLE, Big Boi, Tove Styrke, Stefflon Don, Craig David, Kirsten Joy, Rita Ora, Julia Michaels and ALMA. The deluxe edition will feature Yasmin Green, Charli XCX, Bhad Bhabie, DaVido, Love Ssega and Louisa Johnson.

CONTEXT Art Miami, (www.contextartmiami.com)  presented by Art Miami, returning for its seventh edition December 4 - 9, 2018, has announced its 2018 exhibitor list featuring the works of emergent, mid-career and cutting-edge artists from 96 galleries, representing 21 countries and 63 cities.

Global hitmakers Clean Bandit release their RIAA certified Gold album 'What Is Love?' today via Big Beat Records in the US. A band that thrives on collaborative endeavours, the GRAMMY award winning British trio commanded another brilliantly extensive list of blockbuster vocalists: Zara Larsson, Marina, Luis Fonsi, Demi Lovato, Sean Paul, Anne-Marie, Ellie Goulding, KYLE, Big Boi, Tove Styrke, Stefflon Don, Craig David, Kirsten Joy, Rita Ora, Julia Michaels and ALMA. The deluxe edition will feature Yasmin Green, Charli XCX, Bhad Bhabie, DaVido, Love Ssega and Louisa Johnson.

A prolific and versatile filmmaker who worked across a wide range of genres throughout his long career, Umetsugu Inoue(1923-2010) made his mark on Japanese cinema in the 1950s with a series of highly entertaining, genre-blending musical films that captured the explosive energy of Japan's jazz-fueled youth culture.