Resonance and Resilience: Erika and Hitomi Oba with the Fresno Philharmonic (Symphony)

Spring 2025
by Donald Munro

This wasn’t the type of place you’d expect for a meeting about a newly commissioned piece of music for a professional orchestra. Two composers, one poet, one conductor, and one CEO took off their shoes and walked in bare feet through soil that had been tilled for generations by Japanese American immigrants. There, on a bright February day, amid a crowd of fruit trees with burgeoning blossoms, they planted a cutting from a 50-year-old grapevine. Read More