{"id":99729,"date":"2016-03-01T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=99729"},"modified":"2016-03-02T08:11:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:11:10","slug":"one-of-most-extraordinary-students-eguchi-03-offers-two-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/01\/one-of-most-extraordinary-students-eguchi-03-offers-two-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"‘One of most extraordinary students,’ Eguchi ’03 offers two programs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yuko<\/a>

Yuko Eguchi ’03 visits ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to present Japanese music, dance and the traditional tea ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yuko Eguchi ’03 “was one of the most extraordinary students we\u2019ve ever had,” says music professor Jim Parakilas.<\/p>\n

An economics major who switched to music focusing on composition, Eguchi wrote an opera in her native Japanese for her senior thesis.<\/p>\n

And she didn’t just compose an opera, Parakilas explains: She scored the work for Western and Asian instruments, trained her chorus of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students to sing in Japanese and her Japanese-speaking ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student actors to sing, and even devised a supertitle system so that audience members who didn’t speak Japanese could follow the story.<\/p>\n

“It was the most amazing thing for one person to do,” Parakilas says. “That was quite typical of her. She was just a phenomenon and the opera was very powerful.”<\/p>\n

Eguchi, who just defended her doctoral dissertation in ethnomusicology \u2014 specifically, geisha songs \u2014 at the University of Pittsburgh, returns to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this week to visit classes and give two public presentations: a performance<\/a> of traditional Japanese music and dance on March 3, and a demonstration<\/a> of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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