(Guitar). These are concert arrangements, sometimes free composition, based on famous popular and folk songs: Londonderry Air * Over the Rainbow * Summertime * A Song of Early Spring * Amours Perdues * What a Friend * Secret Love * The International * and four Lennon & McCartney tunes: Here, There a[...]
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was the best-known Japanese composer of his generation, bringing aspects of Eastern and Western traditions together, yet he remained something of an elusive figure. The composer's own commentaries about his music, poetic and philosophical in tone, have tended to deepen the[...]
In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relati[...]