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“Symphony No. 1: ‘Hiroshima’,” released in 2003, was perceived as a memorial and tribute to the suffering victims of the atomic bomb, the hibakusha, including his own parents. Born in Hiroshima, Samuragochi was given a citizen’s award by the city’s mayor, in 2008, for his artistic contribution to its spirit. Then, in 2011, after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in northern Japan, the same composition was transformed into a kind of theme song of national survival when it was used in
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The Unmasking of “Japan’s Beethoven” - The New Yorker
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“Symphony No. 1: ‘Hiroshima’,” released in 2003, was perceived as a memorial and tribute to the suffering victims of the atomic bomb, the hibakusha, including his own parents. Born in Hiroshima, Samuragochi was given a citizen’s award by the city’s mayor, in 2008, for his artistic contribution to its spirit. Then, in 2011, after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in northern Japan, the same composition was transformed into a kind of theme song of national survival when it was used in
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