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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Considered Asia’s greatest composer of the 20th century, Toru Takemitsu ...

Six years after his death, Toru Takemitsu, a man who stood less than 5 feet tall, is seen as a giant in 20th century music, the first composer to significantly bridge East and West. Yet what is most ...

, with Music by Takemitsu and Debussy (Telarc CD 80694, 2008). Debussy (1862-1918) was smitten first by eastern music with the arrival, in Paris in 1889, of a Javanese Gamelan orchestra. He was ...

The Sejongs continue this live hour with film music by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996). We hear two short excerpts — first, from Takemitsu's music for "Jose Torres," we hear "Music of Training and Rest," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...