(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[...]

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[...]