Confronting Silence
Selected Writings
by Toru Takemitsu, Yoshiko Kakudo, Glenn Glasow
155 pages· 1995· ISBN 9780914913368
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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.
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