Tuesday, June 7, 2022

6月6日(月曜日)2022

    爽やかな6月の風が通り抜ける昼下がり、能楽師・一噌流笛奏者の一噌幸弘氏による笛の演奏会が行われました。2年振りに多賀あさひやにお迎えする一噌さん、縦、横、和、洋、長、短、数えきれない種類の笛を並べて演奏が始まりました。頭の中は笛のことばかり、どこまでも笛の可能性を追求し続ける一噌さん。その演奏は伝統的な能楽古典から田楽、日本民謡、洋楽はバッハにまで、様々な笛を使いわけての精力的なもの。能楽では強く吹くことが基本だそうですが、あまりに激しい吹き込みで見ている者が酸欠になりそうでした。また数カ所しか穴が空いていないシンプルな日本の楽器で#や♭の複雑な洋楽のメロディがどうやって吹けるのか、魔法のような指さばき、複数の笛を一緒に演奏する超絶技法の披露もありました。

    実は数ヶ月前に裏小屋二階の箪笥の中に眠っていた古尺八を発見。一噌さんに見せたら驚いたように喜んで「地無し延竹」の貴重な尺八だと教えてくださり早速演奏もしてくださいました。先祖が吹いていたであろう我家の尺八が天才的な笛奏者に息を吹き込んでもらって柔らかな深い音色を出した時の感激は忘れられません。

    Fresh June wind was blowing through in the afternoon, and the Japanese flute concert by Yukihiro Isso was held at Taga Asahiya. We had this event after two years break. At the start of the concert, he put so many flutes (vertical, cross, Japanese, Western, long and short ones) in a row. He seems that he is always thinking about flute and continuing to explore different possibilities of sound with his flute. His performance started from traditional Noh music, Japanese folk music to Bach (Western music) using many kinds of flutes. All of his music were so powerful. According to Mr. Isso, you need to blow flute so hard in Noh music and he was doing so. Looking at his powerful performance, I felt as if I was about to run out of oxygen. I wonder how he plays such a complicated music which has many # and ♭ with a Japanese flute which is a simple instrument having only a few holes. He showed stunning finger movement and transcendental skill with several flutes at the same time.

    A couple months ago, I found an old vertical bamboo flute in a drawer of an old chest in upstairs of the storage house back side of the house. When I showed it to Mr. Isso, he was surprised and excited at it saying that it is "Jinashi Nobetake" and very valuable old bamboo flute. Then he played it. It was a deep and soft sound and I felt so good to hear the old bamboo flute which must have been played by my ancestor in Edo period. I was excited to hear the sound of playing by a genius flute player, Mr. Isso.