{"id":1579,"date":"2017-09-02T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napost.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2017-09-02T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T15:00:46","slug":"music-remembrance-2017-2018-features-music-commissions-inspired-japanese-japanese-american-wartime-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/music-remembrance-2017-2018-features-music-commissions-inspired-japanese-japanese-american-wartime-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Music of Remembrance 2017-2018 features music commissions inspired by Japanese and Japanese American wartime experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 1998, Music of Remembrance (MOR) has commissioned over 30 new works that honor the victims of injustice and persecution. That legacy continues with MOR\u2019s 20th<\/sup>\u00a0season,\u00a0Voices of Witness<\/em>, featuring four new music commissions inspired by Japanese and Japanese American wartime experience by composers Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keiko Fujiie and Christophe Chagnard. These new works will be premiered at MOR\u2019s main stage concerts on November 5, 2017 at 7 p.m. and May 20, 2018 at 5 p.m., at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Seattle; and on May 24, 2018, 7:30 p.m. at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.\u00a0Tickets: $30-$60 available at\u00a0musicofremembrance.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMOR was founded nearly 20 years ago to remember the Holocaust through music\u00ad\u00ad, and we are still deeply committed to that mission\u201d said MOR Founder and Artistic Director Mina Miller. \u201cThe Holocaust\u2019s legacy also calls on us to honor all victims of exclusion and persecution. We\u2019re humbled to share stories of Japanese wartime experience with these commissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The November 5 concert features the world premieres of new works by composers\u00a0Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Keiko Fujiie<\/strong>\u00a0that remember the atomic bombing victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sakamoto\u2019s\u00a0Snow Falls<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0draws on melodies from his film score for \u201cNagasaki: Memories of My Son.\u201d It sets an iconic poem of that name, both in the original Japanese and in an English translation by Empress Michiko. Fujiie\u2019s song cycle\u00a0Wilderness Mute<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is based on texts by Japanese poets from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The program also features guest artist Robert Orth in\u00a0Paul Schoenfield\u2019s\u00a0Sparks of Glory<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>four portraits of Holocaust defiance taken from the true accounts of heroes too modest to recognize their own heroism. Also, little-known pieces created by French, British and Dutch composers in prison and concentration camps.<\/p>\n

The May 20 concert unveils\u00a0Gaman\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Seattle-based composer Christophe Chagnard. The work\u2019s title refers to the struggle to endure the unbearable with patience and dignity, focusing on the experience of people of Japanese ancestry forced into incarceration camps during World War II. It combines traditional Japanese and classical Western instruments, bringing a powerful story to life through testimonies of the words and images created by three artists and poets during their captivity in the Minidoka camp. The concert also features Sakamoto’s second MOR commission,\u00a0NAM\u00c9<\/strong>, remembering all who perished in World War II. Chamber music by\u00a0Erwin Schulhoff<\/strong>\u00a0showcases an audacious talent whose life ended in a Nazi concentration camp.\u00a0Songs from the Terez\u00edn concentration camp\u00a0<\/strong>inspire with their remarkable resilience of spirit.<\/p>\n

The four new commissions by Sakamoto, Fujiie and Chagnard will also be featured in MOR\u2019s fourth annual Bay Area concert at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on May 24, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The 2017-18 season features MOR\u2019s chamber ensemble drawn from the ranks of the Seattle Symphony<\/a>, joined by guest artists baritone\/narrator Robert Orth; soprano Ann Moss; and Ringtaro and Asako Tateishi of Seattle\u2019s School of Taiko<\/a>. For more information, visit\u00a0musicofremembrance.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Music of Remembrance<\/strong><\/h4>\n

MOR remembers the Holocaust through music and honors the resilience of all people excluded or persecuted for their faith, nationality, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. In addition to rediscovering and performing music from the Holocaust, MOR has commissioned and premiered more than 30 new works by some of today\u2019s leading composers, telling stories of tragedy, courage and inspiration.<\/p>\n

(The article and images are retrieved from\u00a0About Music of Remembrance’s press release on August 30th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 1998, Music of Remembrance (MOR) has commissioned over 30 new works that honor the victims of injustice and persecution. That legacy continues with MOR\u2019s 20th\u00a0season,\u00a0Voices of Witness, featuring four new music commissions inspired by Japanese and Japanese American wartime experience by composers Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keiko Fujiie and Christophe Chagnard. These new works will be premiered at MOR\u2019s main stage concerts on November 5, 2017 at 7 p.m. and May 20, 2018 at 5 p.m., at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Seattle; and on May 24, 2018, 7:30 p.m. at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.\u00a0Tickets: $30-$60 available at\u00a0musicofremembrance.org \u201cMOR was founded nearly 20 years ago to remember the Holocaust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":413,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}