Fallen Leaf Monographs on Contemporary Composers
1 primary work
Book 1
Confronting Silence
by Taoru Takemitsu, Yoshiko Kakudo, Glenn Glasow, and Seiji Ozawa
Published 1 January 1995
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.