Tōru Takemitsu News
Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
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[…] and teacher D. T. Suzuki inspired a generation of American Buddhists, and John Cage was particularly influenced by the teachings of the Heart Sutra on sunyata - emptiness. The Heart Sutra's core teaching that "form is emptiness, emptiness is only form", found expression in Cage's groundbreaking silent piece 4'33", Music of Changes, and the multi-media Black Mountain Happening. Zen was also a major influence on the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. Zen gardens were a particular influence, and he once explained that 'I design gardens with music'. The Saiho-ji Temple in Kyoto designed by the 14th century Zen priest Muso Soseki inspired Takemitsu's Dream/Window for orchestra, and another work that reflects the composer's preoccupation with Zen gardens is his Spirit Garden. This preoccupation is reflected in the numerous other botanical references in the titles of Takemitsu's music, including In an Autumn Garden, A Flock Descends […]
2024-02-09 07:00:00
[This is a re-post in tribute to and remembrance of Seiji Ozawa, September 1, 1935-February 6, 2024.] There are fascinating differences between the 1969 recording of November Steps by the same conductor and soloists (RCA) and this 1989 digital remake (Philips). The earlier version presented November Steps as a new piece of modernism, stressing hard-edged […]
2023-10-13 14:39:08
It’s a while since there’s been an album devoted to Tōru Takemitsu‘s orchestral music, so it’s been good to spend time with a new release from the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Christian Karlsen, that explores four of the composer’s works from the ’80s and ’90s. One of them is purely… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: https://www.patreon.com/5against4
2023-10-03 06:54:00
Spotlight Chamber Concerts, artistic director Anthony Friend, is back this Autumn for its fifth edition with five concerts in the beautifully restored St John's Waterloo, each concert offering an intense, immersive experience of live music, with dramatic lighting centred only on the performers, and the audience in the dark and in the round. Running from 3 November to 10 December 2023, the season features pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and violinist Hyeyoon Park, pianist Steven Osborne, clarinettist Anthony Friend and the Maxwell Quartet, pianist Emmanuel Despax, and the Solem Quartet.The series opens with Benjamin Grosvenor and his duo partner Hyeyoon Park in RVW's The Lark Ascending (in its original version for violin and piano), Grieg's Violin Sonata No 3 and Takemitsu’s Distance de fée. Then Steven Osborne gives and all Schubert programme, whilst series artistic director joins the Maxwell Quartet for Brahms' Clarinet Quintet alongside the quartet's own 'musical foraging project' of Scots folk music.Emmanuel Despax pairs Chopin's Preludes with Busoni's monumental […]
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