
At Miller Theatre, Miya Masaoka's Composer Portrait is a Deconstruction of Playful Chaos
For her Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre on March 6, Miya Masaoka presented a substantial, cohesive, and emotive demonstration of how she has mastered illusory chaos. ...the program of fragmentary, exposed writing cohered into solid and effective statements through Masaoka’s compositional prowess. Music is “really a way of communication — on a very primal level,” she tells Tim Munro in the program notes. “With each work I am trying to get to a kernel of truth.” It is a bold ambition to find the contours of truth in wisps and shadows. But Masaoka succeeds.