Event Durham

19:00, Teikyo University Durham, Lafcadio Hearn Centre, Millhill Lane

Yuji Itoh: The Reconciliation

Akemi Naito: Ubazakura

John McLachlan: Fragment

Paul Hayes: The Second Heaven of Desire in Old Tramore

This concert features four pieces of music for piano and recitation, composed by four composers based on the works of Lafcadio Hearn. The texts used range from ghost stories to dialogues with a Bodhisattva, offering both fascinating and profound content.

While Lafcadio Hearn lived in Ireland, Britain, America, and Japan, the four composers selected for this project are: a Japanese composer; a composer born in Japan who has lived long in America; an Irish composer; and a composer born in Ireland who has lived long in Japan and now resides in Ireland and Britain.

Our aim is to forge a new expressive world based on the profoundly compelling literary universe of Lafcadio Hearn – a writer whose complex identity endowed him with a unique perspective on other cultures.

 

In association with The Oriental Museum, Durham University, and Teikyo University of Japan in Durham