Thursday September 2, 2021

Almost 80 years ago, in the midst of racist wartime hysteria, the US government rounded up Japanese Americans and unjustly imprisoned them for the duration of WWII. Japanese American composer Kenji Bunch points out that if he was alive back then, he would have been one of the 120,000 people forcibly confined. Bunch is the composer of ‘Lost Freedom: A Memory,’ a highly anticipated new work that debuts at the Moab Music Festival on Saturday. It features the memories of actor George Takei, who was confined as a child. Today on the news, we speak with Bunch about being an ‘artist activist,’ and connecting the lessons of our brutal history to contemporary times.

Show Notes:

Moab Music Festival: George Takei Makes Moab Music Festival Debut in Newly-Commissioned Work By Kenji Bunch
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/George-Takei-Premieres-New-Work-by-Kenji-Bunch-on-WWII-Confinement.html?soid=1103584053506&aid=HeCi4cCLDzM
Moab Music Festival Website
https://moabmusicfest.org