The koto's timbre. . .gives the music an ethereal air, quite fitting since the koto was an ancient instrument identified with the voice of the spirit in medieval times My wife and I are sitting in ...
Glenview resident Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto is having quite a 50th! She will celebrate five decades of koto playing on March 20 with a concert at the Lakeside Theater, featuring musicians from around ...
The twist in Shirley Muramoto’s personal narrative came when, as a teenager, she discovered how her mother, aunt and grandparents had spent the years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.