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2021-07-07 19:46:47
Percussionist and composer Susie Ibarra‘s rapturous, starkly orchestrated new album Walking on Water touches on the two most deadly ecological crises of our time: the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and global warming. Inspired by a breathtaking series of paintings by Mako Fujimura dedicated to the victims of the March 11, 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear explosions, […]
2021-02-13 16:47:00
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-12-24 21:00:22
Playwriting Her Way Out Of Despair
Lucy Kirkwood, playwright of The Children (now playing on Broadway), says she was trying for a long time to figure out how to write plays about climate change. "Then the events of Fukushima happened, the terrible disaster there. There was a retired work force that volunteered to go back to clear up the plant there. […]
2017-08-15 03:21:00
Bubbling brew : Turnage Hibiki, Prom Ravel Debussy Kazushi Ono
[…] of Anna Nicole, I grew to love its insights into consumer obsessed society and the degradation of those who buy into the scam. Read more HERE But Anna Nicole is a western icon, and Turnage likes Americana. That doesn't necessarily mean he can't write about other cultures, but I'm not sure how to take Hibiki. Does it penetrate much beneath the surface ? Is it enough to address the many long term implications of Fukushima simply by repeating the name over and over ? I'm no composer but I'd rather that the music itself spoke, not the words. No disrespect to Turnage. Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem had so little to do with Japan that he really should not have compromised himself by taking the money. It would probably take a Beethoven or Bach to write something truly transcendant. "Consolation" isn't enough. Kazushi Ono did […]
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