Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

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Description: 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.
Geoffrey Stanton; Tōru Takemitsu; Yoshiko Kakudo; Glenn Glasow
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