Keynote addresses and other presentations
2005
Japanese Culture seen from within and without. S and S Lecture Series, Tustin California. August
"Latino Music: Its Strength, Diversity and DIffusion." Duke University. Part of Hispanic Culture Month Celebrations. September15.
2004
“Challenges of Changing Traditions” Asian Pacific Society for Ethnomusicology, Phnom Penh , Cambodia . August.
2003
Keynote Address. “ Foresight or Fortuity: The Beginnings of Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington ”, At 40 Years of Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington , Seattle . April
1998
The Challenge of Research and the New Technology . Keynote address for 10th International Conference on Korean Studies. The Academy of Korean Studies
Keynote speaker for Annual meeting of Chamber Music America , New York City .
1995
Music in Another's Chamber . Keynote Speaker for Annual Meeting of Chamber Music America . San Francisco . January 9
1994
Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC. Address on funding priorities to Board of Directors, October 13.
1993
Keynote address at National Association of Local Arts Agencies annual meeting. June. Miami
'Seeing the Mountain from the Other Side.' Keynote speaker: Anuual conference, Theatre Communications Group. Smith College . June
1992
"Escher's Loop : New Ways of Looking at What we Do." Keynote Address. Annual Conference of Grantmakers in The Arts. Phoenix , Arizona . October.
'The Role of Culture in the Life of the Pacific Rim . ' and 'The Musical Traditions of Mexico .' Keynote Speaker. Willamette University , Oregon . Pan Pacific Cultural Festival and Conference. March.
1991
"Whose Interests Do We Really Serve?' Keynote Speaker. Annual Conference: International Association of Performing Arts Presenters. NYC December
Keynote Speaker. "Reaching New Audiences". Chicago Museum of Modern Art. November.
Accreditation Review Team member. Review of Mills College For Western Association of Schools and Colleges. November.
"The Strength of California 's Ethnic and Folk Traditions." Keynote speaker at Frenso Arts Festival. April.
'Climbing Over the Fence to Reach Art'. Keynote speaker. Texas Association of Museums. April.
Visiting Scholar in residence. University of Alabama at Tuskaloosa. April 15-19.
Accreditation Review Team member. Review of Woodbury College For Western Association of Schools and Colleges. February.
"Mozart and His World". Public lecture as part of the Mozart Celebration 1991. Sponsored by the Orange County Philharmonic Society and the Newport Harbor Public Library. February.
Concert Preview for the USSR State Symphony Orchestra. Sponsored by the Orange County Philharmonic Society. February.
Concert Preview for The Chieftans at the Orange County Performing Arts Center . Orange County Philharmonic Society. November.
'Reaching New Audiences'. Invited panel member at anuual conference of The American Museum Directors Alliance. Honolulu , February.
"The Kronos Syndrome". Keynote speaker at the Bi-annual conference of the Arts Organizations of the State of New Mexico . Albuquerque , New Mexico . January.
1990
"Reaching New Audiences". Plenary Session speaker. Annual meeting of Opera America (National Organization of American Opera Companies) Washington DC . January 28.
Accreditation Review Team member. 5th year review of Occidental College . For Western Association of Schools and Colleges. April.
Performer with Okinawan Ensemble in the Los Angeles Festival. September 7.
"The Changing Nature of the Arts and the Recognition of Cultural Diversity in the US ." Annual Peter Gran Swing Lecturer at Swarthmore College . September 27.
"The Need for Reassesment Effort at Cultural Diversity within the Smithsonian Institution" Presentation as member of the Smithsonian Council. October 13.
Concert Preview at Seegerstrom Hall preceeding Shanghai Symphony performance. October 31.
"El Desarollo de la tradicion musical Europea en el ambiente Latino-Americano." Lecture in Spanish given for the Hernandad Mexicana in cooperation with the Orange County Philharmonic Society. April 19.
"The Party and the Guests". Keynote address at the annual meeting of the arts organizations of Arizona and New Mexico , Scottsdale , Arizona March 16
1989
"Our Voice in the Changing Demographic Pattern and Our Role in the Arts." Callaloo Confernce. Cultural Affairs Department of the City of San Diego . December 2.
The Lack of Cultural Diversity in the Arts in America and How it Affects the National Interests. Summit Meeting on the Arts. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Education Department. November 11.
"Cultural Diversity Based on Cultural Grounding: Framework for Equity and Empowerment". Presenter for International Conference sponsored in part by the Caribbean Cultural Center . New York . November .
Accreditation team member for Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Accreditation visit to California State University San Jose.
The Noh Drama in the Context of Japanese Culture. Public lecture Westin South Coast Plaza . Sponsored by the Takigi Noh planning committee. September 26.
Report "Cultural Diversity and the Arts in America " prepared for the NEA Special Task Force on Performing and Touring. September.
The Importance of the International Perspective in the Growth in Orange County . Public Address for the Orange County Office of Protocol. July 18.
Presenter for Okinawan contingent of Hawaii State entourage of the 1989 Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival on the Mall, Washington D.C., June 28-July 4.
"The Okinawan Kunkunshi Notation System and its role in an the dissemination of the Shuri Court Music Tradition". Association of Asian Studies. March 1989 Washington , D.C.
Weekly radio programs on music. KUCI. Summer 1989.
Special Task Force on the Multicultural Dimensions of American Life and What Our Institutions are Doing About It. Sponsored by National Public Radio. Washington DC . July 29-30.
1988
Plenary Session Speaker. Common Wealth in Education. Third Annual Conference. Norfolk Academy , Virginia .
1987
"The Task of Finding Incentives for the Retention of Minorities in Insitutions of Higher Education." SUNY Stony Brook Conference on The Role of Faculty in Meeting the Need for African American, American Indian and Latino Schoolars in Higher Education. November.
"The World's Music: Beauty, Babel or Biology." Leonard and Louise Jones Lecture. Sponsored by the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the Orange County Philharmonic Society. Oct. 28.
"Thoughts on the Processes of Language and Music Acquisition," Paper given at the BIOLOGY OF MUSIC MAKING Conference, Denver July 5.
"The Diversity of Cultures and their Role in the Arts of the Rural United States " National Meeting of Rural Arts Agencies, Portland , Oregon , June. Sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Association of Rural Arts Agencies.
1986
"The Context of Okinawan Koten Ongaku." Los Angeles Okinawa Club. Sponsored by Majikina Honryu Association. October 26.
"Okinawan Music Research" University of California Symposium on Ethnomusicology. UC Santa Barbara . May 17.
Keynote Address "The Crisis in Education: The Culturally Pluralist View" Music Education National Conference. 1986 National Meeting. Anaheim , California April, 10.
1984
"The Role of Music in the Asian Pacific Cultural Sphere." Presented at Conference on the Asia-Pacific Culture: - Its History and Prospects. Tenri, Nara , Japan . December.
"The Development of the Romanian Urban Gypsy Song Form from its Probable Origins in the Folk Doina". presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. San Francisco . December.
"Music: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally", Presented at symposium, "A Focus on Multicultural Perspectives in Music." Held by the Music Educator's National Conference at Wesleyan University , August 6 - 10.
National Colloquium of the International Council on Traditional Music on History and Oral Tradition held at Wiepersdorf, German Democratic Republic. April 17-23.
1982
Primera Mesa Redonda de Folklore y Etnomusicologia. Zamora , Michoacan , Mexico . June.
Plenary Session Address "Music in the Arts of Asia " at International Conference for Foreign Student Affairs. Seattle . May.
Keynote Address "The Future of World Music" at the World Music Colloquium of the Sesquecentenial of Wesleyan University , Middletown , Connecticut . April.
1981
"The Uniqueness of Korean Performing Arts within the Asian Cultural Context" given at the Symposium on the Social and Historical Dimensions of the Performing Arts in Korea . Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. February.
1980
Special Colloquium of the International Council of Traditional Music. Held in Kolobrzeg , Poland . June.
Keynote Address at the Fulbright Alumni Association Third Annual International Convention, Berkeley , California . September.
1979
Keynote Address: "Community Radio as an Alternative in America Today" National conference of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Olympia , Washington . August.
1978
"The Contemporary Status of Musicians in Burma " presented at the 10th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, New Delhi , India . December.
"Relationships between the Musical Systems of Ancient India and Burma " Given at the Madras Music Academy Festival. Madras , India . December.
"Social Structures as a Determinant of Style and Structure In Asian Dance" presented at the conference of the Committee on Research in Dance (CORD). Hawaii . August.
1975
"El Desarollo de la Musica en Latino-America" At the Museo de las Culturas, Instituto Nacional de Historia y Anthropologia. Mexico City . September.
1973
"A Cross Cultural View of Attitudes Toward Death Expressed in Music" Meeting of the Tacoma Public Schools Teachers. May.
Resource person for students at Evergreen Community College and talk on the Music of Ancient Japan. May 24.
Keynote Address: "Overturning the Golden Calf: Questioning Accepted Aesthetic Values in Music." Music Educators National Conference, Northwest Convention. Portland , Oregon . February.
1972
"Contrasting Criteria of Excellence, East and West" Given at the National Association of the Humanities Conference. Seattle . October.
1971
Afro-American Music in the United States . Public lecture given at the University of Rhodesia , Salisbury . August.
1967
Participant in conference of the International Music Council (UNESCO) and the Institute for Musicological Research and Documentation. Berlin , West Germany . September.
1964
"Traditional Music Facing Industrial Civilization" given at the East-West Music Conference. New Delhi , India . February.
"Discrepancies Between Oral Tradition and Written Notation in Japanese Gagaku" National Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies. Washington , D. C. March.
1963
"Discrepancies Between Historical Evidence and Oral Tradition in Japanese Court Music" Conference on Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington . March.
1961
"Present Condition of Japanese Traditional Music" East-West Encounter. Tokyo .
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