Music reading play "Borrowed Scenery" - Akiko's A-bombed piano, with her memories

A collaboration between internationally acclaimed and award-winning composer Dai Fujikura and German playwright Tauchgold.
It will be premiered on German public radio in 2022, followed by a stage premiere in New York (Isamu Noguchi Museum) the following year, and a Japan premiere in Hiroshima in 2025.

In Hiroshima, which will mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, the work will use the power of music and words to reflect on the history of war and peace, evacuation and exile.

Program
◆Message from "Akiko's Piano
Talk: Tomie Futaguchi (Representative of HOPE Project)

◆Music reading play "Borrowed scenery" (performed in Japanese)
Script: Tauchgold Composition: Dai Fujikura
Translation: Masato Nakamura (cooperation by Ei Nasuda)

Violin: Chihiro Kitada (Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Mass / Quartet Amabile)
Contrabass: Edikson Lewis (Berliner Philharmoniker)
Piano: Masaru Kosuge

Recitation: Daisuke Oyama, Sachiko Tawada, Mizuho Nishina, Tetsuro Hidaka


Synopsis
During World War II, the Stradivarius, a famous violin instrument, was locked up in a basement in Budapest for years.
A double bass left behind in 1939 when it fled Poland for the land of Israel.
A piano that was silenced after losing its young owner in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ("Akiko's Piano").

At the beginning of the 21st century, these instruments were rediscovered and given new musical life, and while using the historical facts of these three instruments as a foundation, the history of these instruments and their memories are told through the perspectives of three fictional musicians living today. Fiction and reality are intermingled, while the film questions the universal themes of war and peace, evacuation and exile, and the significance of art as a means of bringing beauty and mutual understanding to people.

Akiko's A-bombed Piano
The piano used by Akiko Kawamoto, who was 19 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, has been restored and is now stored and displayed at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Rest House as an "A-bombed relic.
In the play, "Dai Fujikura: Akiko's Diary" will be performed on the actual Akiko's piano, and a part of her diary will be read out.


Organizer: General Incorporated Association HOPE Project
Production: KAJIMOTO

Cooperation: Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior & Senior High School, Hiroshima Television

Supported by: Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund "Hiroshima Peace Grant
Supported by: Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education, Hiroshima City Board of Education, Hiroshima Jogakuin Alumni Association, Asahi Shimbun Hiroshima General Bureau, Chugoku Shimbun