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 ...

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 ...

Toru Takemitsu, the leading Japanese composer of the last century, came to the world's attention in the late '50s with his moving "Requiem for Strings." During the next 40 years, the composer created ...

Reporting from TOKYO — In a short meditation about nature and time that Toru Takemitsu wrote for a Tokyo newspaper in 1993, three years before his death, the composer who simultaneously brought a ...

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 ...

In the early 1980s, a British writer living in Japan decided that, as a Westerner, he couldn’t understand Japan unless he walked its 2,000-mile length. As Alan Booth recounted in his marvelous book ...