Boston Globe: Ueno’s “Inventive New Work”

In anticipation of this weekend’s series of events premiering the Community MusicWorks commissioned piece by Ken Ueno, the Boston Globe published this teaser for Ueno’s “inventive new work”:

“Four Contemplations” takes as its subject the museum’s ancient Dainichi Buddha and will unfold in three iterations. Ueno and 11 MusicWorks players will play the piece on Thursday in four 30-minute chunks in the museum’s Asian art galleries. The following Sunday, they will present it as an hourlong piece in the museum’s concert hall. The music will be recorded during these performances and at a later date will be accessible on the museum guide in the galleries. The piece was not only inspired by the Dainichi Buddha and by meditation practices but was also “influenced by my recent attempts to compose music specific to architectural spaces and people moving through those spaces,” Ueno wrote in an e-mail.

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