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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It never took much to get Toru Takemitsu, the pioneering Japanese ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu creates a strange yet beautiful world, of yearning, of submerged complexity, of perfectly weighted timbres, of magical spans, of clouded, sensuous sound. The ability ...

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 ...

We all know that trying to decide who’s “the best” in matters of the arts, and especially who’s best in the art of music, is a bad idea. But let’s be bad. Let’s do it: Here’s my nomination for best ...

1996 - Composer Toru Takemitsu dies at the age of 66. By Billboard Staff 2003 – Tragedy strikes at a Great White show at West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub The Station when a pyrotechnic ignites ...

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 ...

Taking stock of the century’s musical achievements is a task made less daunting by recordings. Even given the recent retrenchment of recording activity by the major classical labels, the ...

The composer Takemitsu's music, philosophy and personality are explored alongside his attraction to the metaphor of the garden - 'I design gardens with music', claimed Takemitsu, a Japanese artist who ...