6/18/2023 0 Comments Zen dental lab![]() ![]() “It was an absolutely unbelievable moment. ![]() “I remember sitting on campus in Beasley Auditorium, and I hear this music, and here comes Stan with his Japanese kimono,” Alexander says. Moody Alexander, clinical professor in orthodontics, was department chair when Richardson was hired and is one of many colleagues privy to his musical stylings. “I work very closely with the orthodontic residents, and there are quite a lot of complicated techniques that I teach them, so it’s also pretty demanding, patience-wise.”ĭr. ![]() “The music requires such attention to detail the study of it requires an incredible amount of patience,” Richardson says. from England in 1979 to take the job at TAMBCD, will run out of this virtue anytime soon. It doesn’t appear that Richardson, who moved to the U.S. Whether Richardson is kneeling on a tatami reed mat for hour-long practice sessions with his music students or instructing orthodontic residents in the close quarters of his lab, seemingly unending reserves of patience have allowed him to excel at these otherwise mutually exclusive professions. Performing with Fumiko Coburn at the Dallas Arboretum The event is part of a 40-year anniversary of the Mujuan Shakuhachi Dojo, his teacher’s school, founded by Yodo Kurahashi in Kyoto, Japan. 25, Richardson, one of only four master teachers in the U.S., will perform at the Freer Gallery of Art, one of the Smithsonian museums of Asian art in Washington. Stan Richardson, senior lab coordinator in orthodontics, has studied the shakuhachi since 1972. Some students of this school of music, which dates back to 17th century Japan and Zen Buddhism, play only a couple of months before growing disillusioned. The outer edges of the flute appear rough-hewn and simple. Traditionally fashioned from bamboo, this end-blown flute could blend in among surrounding stalks. The shakuhachi is a deceptively unassuming instrument. Stan Richardson joined the TAMBCD staff 35 years ago, but he started playing the Japanese bamboo flute long before that. ![]()
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