{"id":79715,"date":"2021-08-20T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?post_type=ac_pitmancd&#038;p=79715"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:39:21","slug":"john-pitman-review-kenji-bunch-debuts-lost-freedom-with-george-takei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/john-pitman-review-kenji-bunch-debuts-lost-freedom-with-george-takei\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Kenji Bunch debuts \u201cLost Freedom\u201d with George Takei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Pitman, director of Music and Programming at All Classical Portland interviews Portland composer Kenji Bunch about an important world premiere happening a few states away, at the Moab Music Festival in Utah, on September 4.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the autobiographical accounts of the incarceration of United States citizens \u2013 Japanese-Americans, in World War II \u2013 \u201cLost Freedom: A Memory\u201d is a chamber music piece that is woven with words spoken by a man who, as a boy, was one of those citizens forced from their homes and made to live in desolate camps thousands of miles away from where they had lived: Actor George Takei (Star Trek) will take part in the premiere at Moab Music Festival, reading his own words to Kenji\u2019s newly-composed score. Both Kenji Bunch and George Takei join John for this special Arts Blog conversation about the premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about he <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/moabmusicfest.org\/events\/lost-freedom-japanese-american-confinement-in-america-narrated-by-george-takei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moab Music Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenji playing his earlier piece, Minidoka:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJHMYHZsoTE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pitman, director of Music and Programming at All Classical Portland interviews Portland composer Kenji Bunch about an important world premiere happening a few states away, at the Moab Music Festival in Utah, on September 4. Inspired by the autobiographical accounts of the incarceration of United States citizens \u2013 Japanese-Americans, in World War II \u2013 &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":79747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4081,4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:37:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}