Music Behind Barbed Wire (Executive Order 9066)
April 18, 2017 @ CSU Dominguez Hills [YouTube.com/csuDHTV] [Please Subscribe] Music Behind Barbed Wire centers on life in American concentration camps between 1942-1946. This program features the world premiere of Behind Barbed Wire for saxophone and piano composed by Deon Nielsen Price to be performed by Mary Au, Chika Inoue, narrated by Haruye Ioka and Ping Wu of the Grateful Crane. The legendary Mary Nomura (Songbird of Mazanar) will sing original works from Manzanar including her own Can’t Fool This Heart of Mine, and East West Players will bring us Residence Elsewhere, a play that “depicts three different narratives in time, location, and sentiment:” EO9066, Native American relocation, and Immigration ban. Other performers include Kyodo Taiko, Calle Mayor Middle School Choir, The United Male Chorus of Los Angeles, and CSUDH Department of Music alumni and students performing popular tunes of the 40s. This program is presented by CSU Dominguez Hills College of Arts & Humanities and the Department of Music. It is co-sponsored by CSUDH Asian Pacific Studies Program, Multicultural Affairs, NACUSA-LA, Mu Phi Epsilon Gamma Sigma Chapter, Omega Delta Phi Fraternity Beta Beta Chapter, AAJUW and Culver Crest Publications.
April 18, 2017 @ CSU Dominguez Hills [YouTube.com/csuDHTV] [Please Subscribe] Music Behind Barbed Wire centers on life in American concentration camps between 1942-1946. This program features the world premiere of Behind Barbed Wire for saxophone and piano composed by Deon Nielsen Price to be performed by Mary Au, Chika Inoue, narrated by Haruye Ioka and Ping Wu of the Grateful Crane. The legendary Mary Nomura (Songbird of Mazanar) will sing original works from Manzanar including her own Can’t Fool This Heart of Mine, and East West Players will bring us Residence Elsewhere, a play that “depicts three different narratives in time, location, and sentiment:” EO9066, Native American relocation, and Immigration ban. Other performers include Kyodo Taiko, Calle Mayor Middle School Choir, The United Male Chorus of Los Angeles, and CSUDH Department of Music alumni and students performing popular tunes of the 40s. This program is presented by CSU Dominguez Hills College of Arts & Humanities and the Department of Music. It is co-sponsored by CSUDH Asian Pacific Studies Program, Multicultural Affairs, NACUSA-LA, Mu Phi Epsilon Gamma Sigma Chapter, Omega Delta Phi Fraternity Beta Beta Chapter, AAJUW and Culver Crest Publications.