Recent Examples on the WebSalons and concerts were organized; at one, Cage and Henry Cowell presented an evening of Japanese gagaku, and, at another, the German-Japanese poet Sadakichi Hartmann, formerly a Village mainstay, impersonated Edgar Allan Poe.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Japanese, from ga "elegance" + gaku "music"
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