Thursday lunchtime in the RBA saw Teiya Kasahara, Chihiro Yasufuku and Simone Luti perform 歌曲 Kakyoku: Journey in Japanese Song. It was an interesting contrast with Sam Chan’s exploration of Western representation of Asia and Asian in Western classical music the day before. This time all the music was by Japanese composers setting Japanese texts but (in some sense at least) in the Western classical style/tradition. In its way it forms part of the broader “modernisation” of Japan that took place after the Meiji Restoration.
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