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Ken Ueno

"How Many More Times Will I See the Full Moon?"

for sho solo

(2023)
Duration6'
CommissionMade possible by support of the Fiscal Year 2021Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, National Park Service and the UMass Fine Arts Center in tribute to the late electronic and film music visionary Ryuichi Sakamoto.
PremiereNovember 10, 2024; Stuttgarter Kollektiv für aktuelle Musik, GEDOK, Stuttgart, Germany; Junko Yamamoto, sho
PublisherPSNY

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Program Note

I am ostensibly a “classical” music composer, having been trained at conservatories in the United States. My habitus is classical music – most of the musicians I collaborate are classically trained, the venues where my music is performed are mostly concert music halls. Somehow, through all the years of my training it took a while (perhaps into my second graduate degree program) for me to realize that all the composers and compositions that I encountered were exclusively European. It seems obvious now to read that as a plaintive fact as I wrote the last sentence a few seconds ago, but, when I was a graduate student, that fact caused me to go through an existential crisis. “Can someone who looks like me have the same access to the legacy of classical music?” “Can I participate fully in composing in this habitus?” The answer is complex - I am still unpacking the heaviness of this realization. At this juncture, finding myself in the middle of the journey of my life, I have, somewhat, survived (though scarred and tired), and have been given some affordances to help affect change, a responsibility to help move it towards a more equitable, democratically accessible future; and part of that vision for change is invested in honoring the people who came before me. To this end, I have been working on a documentary on the only senior role model I have as a Japanese American composer: Paul Chihara. In May 2022, my crew and I took Paul to revisit Minidoka, where he was incarcerated as a child during World War II. As I was composing this solo sho piece, which I intend to use as underscore for my film, another hero, Ryuichi Sakamoto, passed away. Ryuichi Sakamoto is arguably Japan’s most renown musician and composer. What he achieved was an expressive expansiveness whose horizons were broader than any genre characterizations. As I feel stuck working to expand the space of what it means to be a composer of classical music, Sakamoto had already expanded what it means to be a music maker. By dedicating this piece to Ryuichi Sakamoto’s memory and borrowing the title from Sakamoto’s blog (itself a quote from Paul Bowles), I hope to honor both of my heroes.

- Ken Ueno

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