Music by DANIEL DORFF
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Kokoro o komete for Voice and Piano
In July 1982, I was engaged to Japanese sculptor Eiko Fan Takahira, and her mother and sister came to the US to check me out. One morning, Eiko's sister, then 15 years old, didn't come downstairs for breakfast, and when she finally appeared she gave us a poem she'd spent the morning writing, called Kokoro o Komete. It expressed how she felt losing her sister to marriage in a distant country. When they all left the house that afternoon for yard sales, I wrote this song on her poem. It was premiered a few months later at our wedding. I made a point of using a musical style balancing Western harmony with the pentatonic and Phrygian flavor found in much Japanese folk music.
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