{"id":6624,"date":"2015-05-05T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2015-05-05T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:36:39","slug":"exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the world of Hiroshige&#8217;s Tokaido Road: new chamber opera comes to Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently touring the UK after a successful premiere at the Cheltenham Festival last year and its recent London premiere at Milton Court Theatre, we are very pleased\u00a0to be bringing the chamber opera,\u00a0<em>Tokaido Road: a journey after Hiroshige, <\/em>to Kent on <strong>Saturday 23 May<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5339\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/09\/gaffield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5339\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/09\/gaffield.jpg\" alt=\"gaffield\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Gaffield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chamber opera, an evocative fusion of music, poetry, art,\u00a0mime and photography comes to the University in a few weeks as part of the University&#8217;s fiftieth anniversary celebrating the work of members of the University community; the libretto is written by <strong>Nancy Gaffield<\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, and is based on her own award-winning cycle of poems of the same name. Commissioned by frontier-challenging <strong>Okeanos Ensemble<\/strong>, and composed by <strong>Nicola LeFanu<\/strong>, the work is inspired by Hiroshige&#8217;s <em>53 Stations of the Tokaido Road<\/em>, a series of woodblock prints evoking the Japanese landscape and its people along the ancient route linking Edo and\u00a0Kyoto. The chamber opera sees Hiroshige reflecting on life, love and loss on his journey along the Tokaido Road, unfolding\u00a0against a backdrop of projected images of both Hiroshige prints as well as photos of modern-day Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/Hiroshige_Shinagawa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6631\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/Hiroshige_Shinagawa-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Hiroshige_Shinagawa\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/Hiroshige_Shinagawa-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/Hiroshige_Shinagawa-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The score combines Western instruments with Japanese sho and koto, and the first half of the performance sees members of Okeanos perform traditional Japanese music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6624 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/photo-1.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/photo-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/photo-2.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/photo-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/photo-4.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/photo-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/14378430190_b869cfa8ce_b.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/14378430190_b869cfa8ce_b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/14542032036_19b79c84cb_b.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/05\/14542032036_19b79c84cb_b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2014\/10\/50th-ribbon-sml.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6056\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2014\/10\/50th-ribbon-sml.png\" alt=\"50th-ribbon-sml\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Come along The Road when it arrives at the Gulbenkian Theatre on <strong>Saturday 23 May<\/strong>; details and tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/theatre\/2015\/May\/2015-05-23-tokaido-road.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can find out more about the chamber opera, including image galleries and audio extracts, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tokaidoroad.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/&amp;t=Exploring the world of Hiroshige's Tokaido Road: new chamber opera comes to Kent' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Exploring the world of Hiroshige's Tokaido Road: new chamber opera comes to Kent%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/&amp;title=Exploring the world of Hiroshige's Tokaido Road: new chamber opera comes to Kent' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/&amp;title=Exploring the world of Hiroshige's Tokaido Road: new chamber opera comes to Kent' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently touring the UK after a successful premiere at the Cheltenham Festival last year and its recent London premiere at Milton Court Theatre, we are very pleased\u00a0to be bringing the chamber opera,\u00a0Tokaido Road: a journey after Hiroshige, to Kent on Saturday 23 May. The chamber opera, an evocative fusion of music, poetry, art,\u00a0mime and photography &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/05\/05\/exploring-the-world-of-hiroshiges-tokaido-road-new-chamber-opera-comes-to-kent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring the world of Hiroshige&#8217;s Tokaido Road: new chamber opera comes to Kent<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":6629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[139468,129743,72957,139471,139450,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}