{"id":3066,"date":"2021-06-02T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:13:25","slug":"george-takei-makes-moab-music-festival-debut-in-new-work-based-on-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/george-takei-makes-moab-music-festival-debut-in-new-work-based-on-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"George Takei Makes Moab Music Festival Debut in New Work Based on his Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Star Trek\u2019s\u2019 George Takei coming to Utah to narrate a musical work based on his life<\/h1>\n

The work, debuting at Moab Music Festival, is inspired by the actor\u2019s childhood in an internment camp.<\/h2>\n

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Movie and TV icon George Takei will come to Moab on Labor Day weekend, to narrate the world premiere of a chamber-music work inspired by his experience in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.<\/p>\n

The work, \u201cLost Freedom: A Memory\u201d by composer Kenji Bunch, will debut Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Red Cliffs Lodge in Moab, as part of the Moab Music Festival<\/a>, the festival announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The festival, in a statement, said it commissioned Bunch to write the work based on the \u201cStar Trek\u201d star\u2019s speeches, personal writings and recollections, which were compiled by the festival\u2019s music director, Michael Barrett. The work is the first to be produced as part of the festival\u2019s new Commissioning Club.<\/p>\n

Takei, 84, was just two months shy of his fifth birthday on Feb. 19, 1942, when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the forced removal of some 120,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry from their homes on the west coast. Those citizens were relocated to camps away from the coasts. (One of them was Topaz, near Delta, Utah.)<\/p>\n

Takei\u2019s family was forced to leave their home in Los Angeles to live in a \u201crelocation center\u201d in Arkansas and two sites in California during World War II. The text for \u201cLost Freedom\u201d is based on Takei\u2019s impressions of that time and of his family\u2019s struggles returning to Los Angeles after the war.<\/p>\n

In its release, the festival noted that Moab played a part in that tragic history. The Dalton Wells camp, originally created by the Civilian Conservation Corps about 13 miles north of Moab, was used as an \u201cisolation camp,\u201d where so-called \u201ctroublemakers\u201d from other internment camps were sent.<\/div>\n
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