With a bow to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, a bow to the Philadelphia Orchestra, a bow to the audience in Manhattan’s Philharmonic Hall, stocky Kimio Eto adjusted his formal robes and settled before a ...

Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

Instrumentalists in brilliantly colored kimonos assembled Sunday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland for a handsome display of koto music. The players, drawn from the Washington ...

As a freshman majoring in Asian studies and music at Augustana College, Jeff Wichmann was doubly entranced when he first saw the koto being played.