'The Shore Lullaby' Concert Set for Fukagawa Next Month — Transcriber Ushio Kishiura to Sing It in Public for the First Time in Decades
Nearly half a century since he transcribed it, he had never once sung it in public. Music teacher Ushio Kishiura, 74, previously reported, revealed on the 2nd that he will sing 'the Shore Lullaby' — the piece he himself transcribed — at a concert next month at Fukagawa Central Plaza. It will be the first chance for the public to hear the song, a living piece of first-generation drifter memory, in his own voice.
Music teacher Ushio Kishiura, 74, a first-generation drifter previously reported, announced on the 2nd that he will sing "the Shore Lullaby" — the piece he himself transcribed in the 1970s — at a concert at Fukagawa Central Plaza next month, in December. In the nearly fifty years since the transcription, he has provided recordings and sheet music, but this will be the first time he has sung it in public himself. "I always thought teaching and singing were two different things," he said. "As I've gotten older, I've started wanting to leave it behind in my own voice." Admission is free, and the organizers say several requests for such a concert came in from residents who had read Kishiura's previously reported remarks in the Dimensional Survey pages. The Fukagawa Cultural Promotion Association said, "Chances to hear it in the actual voice of a first-generation drifter will only grow fewer from here. We want this to be a night worth having."
