Takemitsu Tōru is famous as the composer who united traditional Japanese music and Western modernism. Today, a quarter-century after his death, his music continues to be performed in concert halls ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from TOKYO — In a short meditation about nature and time that Toru Takemitsu wrote for a Tokyo newspaper in 1993, three years before his death, the composer who simultaneously brought a ...

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 ...

, 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Toru Takemitsu (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) In the early 1980s, a British writer living in Japan decided that, as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 10 years since he died, Toru Takemitsu's beautifully crafted orchestral pieces have begun to find a niche in the repertory. Marin Alsop's fastidious selection of them makes a superb ...

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 ...