O-hisa
from Scratches of the Wind by Mark Takeshi McGregor
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While completing his doctorate in Vancouver, Ramsey Sadaka was commissioned by UBC’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery to commemorate the launch of Esther Shalev-Gerz's outdoor art work, The Shadow. The resulting work for solo flute, O-hisa, is a musical portrait of a character from Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's novel Some Prefer Nettles. While Sadaka certainly conveys the flow of O-hisa's psychological states (real and imagined) throughout the novel, the following phrase, translated by E.G. Seidensticker, provided the main inspiration for this piece: "O-hisa was a shade left behind from another age."
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from Scratches of the Wind,
released November 3, 2021
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