Confronting Silence

Selected Writings

• Author(s): Toru Takemitsu, Yoshiko Kakudo, Glenn Glasow, Seiji Ozawa,
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Pages: 156
• ISBN_10: 1461664845
  ISBN_13: 9781461664840
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / Ethnic ,

Description:... 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 relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.