ORPHANS AND STARS, Songs of Celan (digest)

Musicians and actors perform 20 songs. Original texts of each song are mainly from Jewish poet Paul Celan’s pieces and Bertolt Brecht’s pieces. This theater music is brought to you by concert-form, dances, and reading performances. premiere June 2015 at Theater X, Tokyo for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tadeusz Kantor Directed and Composed by Jun Kawasaki (Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory)  Seika Miki: vocal Ayako Kosaka: mezzo soprano Naoko Aoki: pian