Snow Falls

Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto | Commissioned by Music of Remembrance

Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a unique impact for decades in Japan and around the world as a composer, musician, film actor and peace activist. One of his 2017-18 MOR commissions, “Snow Falls,” is a musical setting of Kiyoke Nagase’s moving poem of that name. The musical arrangement for actress, violin and piano draws on melodies from Mr. Sakamoto’s film “Nagasaki: Memories of My Son.” Japanese actress Naho Shioya will deliver the poem both in Japanese and in an English translation by Empress Michiko.