Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Toru Takemitsu (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) In the early 1980s, a British writer living in Japan decided that, as a ...

SAPPORO--For the lucky few who attended a June 27, 1982, live performance by the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra with Hiroyuki Iwaki conducting, that occasion now steeped in legend is available on compact ...

In his music you see a dialectic of Orient and Occident, sound and silence. The musical language and imagery, however, is all his own. He started composing when he was 16, and had no important ...

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Takemitsu's understated and crystalline compositions combine elements of his own Japanese traditions with the western modernism he loved so much I can remember the first time I listened to Japanese ...

A WAY A LONE: Writings on Toru Takemitsu, edited by Hugh de Ferranti and Yoko Narazaki. Tokyo: Academia Music, Ltd., 2002, 258 pp. with musical examples and one b/w photo, 3,000 yen (paper) THE MUSIC ...

I recently revisited some of Toru Takemitsu’s work, which I first heard in college with a recording called “Coral Island.” It was way too far out for me then. But listening now, years later, I am ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. Known in his early career for his experimental approach to music, Takemitsu first came to international attention ...

The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, an avid film buff, once said that he loved movies because he experienced them as music. Maki Takemitsu, his daughter, focused on her father’s significant ...

Toru Takemitsu was the first major Japanese composer to win international renown. Born in 1930, he died in 1996, and on Saturday his work is being celebrated in a special day dedicated to music from ...