Lafcadio Hearn project – Creating a world of expression

While Lafcadio Hearn lived in Ireland, Britain, America, and Japan, the four composers selected for this project are: a Japanese composer; a composer born in Japan who has lived long in America; an Irish composer; and a composer born in Ireland who has lived long in Japan and now resides in Ireland and Britain.

Our aim is to forge a new expressive world based on the profoundly compelling literary universe of Lafcadio Hearn – a writer whose complex identity endowed him with a unique perspective on other cultures.

In association with The Oriental Museum, Durham University, and Teikyo University of Japan in Durham.

Satoko Inoue, piano

John McLachlan, reader

Yuji Itoh: The Reconciliation

Akemi Naito: Ubazakura

John McLachlan: Fragment

Paul Hayes: The Second Heaven of Desire in Old Tramore