Kakehashi That We Might Live

Kakehasi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
Then. Now. Always. A Documentary in Music

Grade 4-5 w/Chorus, Soloists, Multimedia at 65:33
Cost: 300
Cost of additional score: 100
See Photos & Read Reactions to the 3-4 April 2004 Premier . Sad News about Manuel Armijo...
See Score (with complete Score Notes)

Excerpt
Michael Hotltzclaw 22 May 2005 Daily Press Article
Michael Hotltzclaw 11 Sep 2005 Daily Press Article

This work was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Music. The DVD Version of this work won 2 Telly Awards, one for a History/Biography and the other for... interestingly enough Music Concert.

This live-theatrical Grade 4-5 work for band of the 3rd Millennium has been
"visually scored" in a process called STORMWORKS™ VisaREEL™, and further develops Music and Picture concepts first developed in LAST WORLD STANDING.

(The DVD version of LAST WORLD STANDING is coming soon.)

The DVD, "visually-scored" version of THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, is an historic document rendered by some of the world's finest ensembles, and treated with visuals from the National Archives, Chinese Central Television and various rare sources from around the world.

This work demonstrates just what a high school band is capable of in the 3rd Millennium. Whether or not you actually render the work, owning this resource serves as an historic addition to the repertoire of possibility.

Order the DVD online under STORMWORKS® VisaREEL™

And now for the FIRST STORMWORKS® Testimonial in sound! When you hear it, you'll see why it's better than the written word. This the voice of Dr. Anthony Gioffre, Former Principal, Port Chester, NY Public Schools. His message.

Captain Richard Snyder, USS BATAAN delievers teh keynote address at the WHRO Premiere of THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.

"I don't understand how you can make something so beautiful out of such misery. I am so proud of those young people. With people like these, we don't need to worry about the future of our country." "We don't need to be ashamed any more of our forced surrender." Mr. Harold C. Hise, Survivor and ex-POW of Bataan, after the premiere.

"It made me remember things I thought I had forgotten...and that is so important to me. From this day forward, you are my Grandson." Mr. Jack Aldrich, Survivor and ex-POW of Bataan, after the premiere and shared verbally.

"Steve, words cannot express the soaring emotions which one experiences when hearing this monumental work. You deserve the Medal of Freedom for this piece of patriotism, especially for your success in having the spirited cooperation of a once-despised and brutal enemy. I salute you, Sir!" Joseph R. Priestley, LCDR, USN (Ret.) Served in WWII, Korea & Vietnam

That We Might Live... by Grace C. Nash. I did not know this book existed until long after writing both THAT WE MIGHT LIVE and KAKEHASHI: That We Might Live. And the SYNC? It's enormous and profound.

Quicktime of Roswell, NM News Broadcast 21 Aug 03
PDF of Article 21 August 2003
Link: http://reta.nmsu.edu/bataan

Recommended Reading:

That We Might Live... by Grace C. Nash
Five Came Home... by Grace C. Nash
Anywhere, Anytime... by John Olson
O'Donnell... by John Olson
Courage on Bataan and Beyond... Abell OrtegaThe December Ship... by Betty B. Jones
Late Summer of 1941 and My War With Japan... by Weldon Hamilton
Through the Valley of the Kwai, (rereleased as To End All Wars...) by Ernest Gordon
Flyboys... by James Bradley
Musashi... by Eiji Yoshikawa
The 47 Ronin Story... by John Allyn
A Book of Five Rings... by Miyamoto Musashi
The Five People You Meet in Heaven... Mitch Albom
The Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama
WARTIME TRILOGY : Out of the Smoke / Into the Smother / The Sword and the Blossom, by Ray Parkins
Surrender and Survival, The Experience of American POW's in the Pacific, 1941-1945 by Kerr, E. Bartlett
Death March: The Survivors of Bataan by Knox, Donald
Soon To be published: "The Zentsujians" by Roger Mansell

Description: (program notes are below)

KAKEHASHI: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE Then. Now. Always. A Documentary in Music. This 65:33 work is designed to be an entire concert, with the possibility of a more advanced group rendering Musashi on the same program.

The work was completed on 14 August 2003 and copyrighted on 11 September 2003.

As part of a Continental Harmony, REACH2000 commissioning project with New Mexico, this work honours the sacrificed and surviving participants of the Bataan Death March, after meeting the 200th and 515th Coastal Artillery's Ex-Prisoners of World War II.

The goal of the work is to encapsulate a worthy memento, a time-capsule that will carry into future generations the oft-times hard to accept legacy of the valiant Souls who endured more than can be summed with words alone.

If a single work spanning 65:33 seems long, reconsider. It represents only 1/31, 385th of the Time given by the POW's... before they got home.

THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. Then. Now. Always: A Documentary in Music is made complete by an historically accurate, pre-recorded CD of authentic radio & musical clips from World War II, excerpts and lyrics of which are pertinent to the events of Bataan and Corregidor during the 3 years, 8 months and 25 days where 31,095 were sacrificed to conditions and hardships beyond measure or words. For the Survivors of the Bataan Death March, the day of surrender did not mark an end to their inhuman imprisonment, ordeals on the “Hell Ships” and then continued slave labor in Japan. For them, the war would last much longer. In fact, it has taken almost 40 years before these valiant Souls began to speak of the events we now sum in the phrase, “Bataan Death March”.

This historically accurate, large scale, but accessible work will utilize a large (306 piece) chorus, the extended instrumentation of Band of the 3rd Millennium as described in the "storm" works, theatrical reenactments, comparable to David and Ahab!, and a disk of prerecorded Radio Broadcasts, songs, morse code clips and more from the period. This prerecorded CD will "accompany" the ensemble as was premiered and demonstrated in The Universe Below.

Under a previously used working title, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE was premiered in Roswell, New Mexico on 3 April 2004. Many of the Bataan Survivors were present. THAT WE MIGHT LIVE is for all those who have sacrificed in the name of Freedom.

A valued posession: This artwork, signed by some of the Survivors and their wives.

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