Norway is exporting more than just salmon this summer. A group of some 60 musicians, led by composer Magnar Am, have arrived in Japan.
The group includes a 60-person choir from Volda, Norway, as well as Japanese singer Sizzle Ohtaka and the group Asian Wings. They performed in Hiroshima and Kyoto earlier in the week and will play the Hollywood Hall in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex tomorrow. The performances mark the Japanese debut of Am's most recent composition, "Will This Moment Ever Let Go?"
The composition was inspired by a silent animated film by Renzo and Sayako Kinoshita titled "Picadon" (1979), which centered on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
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