Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january 17 City musician mesmerized wine free press by japanese Bamboo flute ancient instrument produces otherworldly9 sound by Samantha Shatzky Brenda Lohrenz first heard the haunting sounds of the japanese Bamboo flute at a Holiday Celebration in i found its tones says who was in the country teaching English at the the music of the traditional japanese instrument so intrigued her that she set about finding someone who could teach her the Way of the a native of Winnipeg and graduate of the University of British columbian music Lohrenz will perform at the fort Garry mennonite 150 Bay Ridge today at she will also perform at the University of Winnipeg wednesday at Lohrenz was an accomplished flautist before moving to her skills made learning the japanese called the somewhat but even after playing for two she has been told that the flute can take up to 10 years to frustrations with this instrument Are As much of the technique is passed Down generation to generation by word of says Home for three weeks Over the played vertically instead of the Bamboo flute looks More like the North american recorder than a but the sounds it produces Are unlike either of these meditation Lohrenz describes the music As eerie and she says the flute has a meditative and that it was originally used by zen Buddhist priests As a method of the instrument is at least 700 years old and was brought to Japan by a chinese the men who first played the flute had to be members of the zen people could not play it As Folk it was it was not until the turn of this Century that the ban was lifted in Japan and the flute began to be played As a musical instrument with no religious although who gave up her teaching Post Over a year ago to devote her time to studying japanese says that in order to truly master the one must understand something of zen she spent three weeks in a zen Buddhist Temple to prove her dedication to the instrument and to try to understand its so much of zen thinking is linked to japanese it is essential to have a least some knowledge of the Bamboo flute is traditionally considered a male instrument in she and people Are usually surprised when they find out she plays it is definitely considered Odd for a when played in the traditional the flute player wears a Tengaio Over the head to conceal the players japanese women traditionally play a 13string Harp called the which is accompanies the Lohrenz with the Bamboo flute and traditional rap group Singer to stand trial in sex abuse Case Knight Ridder newspapers Honey a Singer in the rap group the fat boys has been ordered to stand trial with three companions and a female acquaintance after they pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually abusing a minor at a Chester county party that was videotaped in the six minute videotape was played recently to a select Audi ence of District Justice Susann Welsh and the spectators in the packed Honey Brook District could overhear the sexually explicit party according to authorities who have seen the the tape shows the guests dancing nude and one Edward Charles of Coa having sex with a 14 year old after viewing the Welsh or dered held for trial the Man accused of making the Darren Robin a vocalist for the fat along with his brother and Curtis and a body Pell All three Are from Chanda of Coa who was a party and Kelso were also ordered to stand the five will be tried on charges of sexually abusing a corrupt ing the morals of a minor and con Only two witnesses testified at the 90minute hearing the grandmother of the 14yearold girl and state trooper James Boyd of the pm Beeville who conducted the the 14yearold girl appeared at the hearing but did not Larry Stallworthy at said the tape showed the 14yearold was corrupt to begin with and asked that she be called to the Welsh ruled that she need not during Boyds investigation of the the girl told the state trooper that two friends and an infant were in Coatesville the night of 4 when they met the four she said her 16yearold Girlfriend invited the men to her Mobile Home for a according to both girls state at the trailer Kelso suggested that they remove their Dar Ren and Curtis Robinson got a video camera from the trunk of their Mer while the camera was the 14yearold she and Stallworth removed their clothes and danced with Cimeley and Curtis who also in the 14yearold said she was dancing then had the men told police that the 14 year old lied about her age and consented to both the sex and the to still airs study says by Paul Bagnell Ottawa men make up 70 per cent of Canadas House work is a woman most experts Are if youve been watching Canadian those Are some of the messages youve received about men and women in a recent study has the the portrayal of gender in Canadian is based on television and radio programming in it is part of the Canadian radio television and Tele communications commissions efforts to promote More 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