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Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu , 1930-96, Japanese composer, b. Tokyo. Largely self-taught and particularly influenced by Debussy and Cage , Takemitsu successfully combined serial music and other techniques from Europe and the United States with traditional Japanese modalities. His music has a marked sensuous... Read more |
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Frederick Loewe
Lerner and Loewe Lyricist and composer For the Record…<... Read more |
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Marvin Hamlisch
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Udo Zimmerman
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kamikaze
kamikaze [Jap.,=divine wind], the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan's fleet, foiling his invasion of Japan in 1281. In World War II the term was used for a Japanese suicide air force composed of fliers who crashed their bomb-laden planes into their targets, usually ships. The kamikaze was first... Read more |
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Arvo Part
Arvo Pärt Composer For the Record… Selected compositions Selected discography Sources Estonian-born composer Arvo.... Read more |
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William Boyce
William Boyce c.1710-1779, English composer. After studying in London, he became a composer (1736) and later an organist (1758) of the Chapel Royal and Master of the King's Music in 1755. Although overshadowed by Handel, he was the foremost English-born composer of his day. He wrote symphonies,... Read more |
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John Dunstable
John Dunstable , c.1385-1453, English composer. Dunstable is thought to have accompanied his patron, the duke of Bedford, to France. About 60 of his works—nearly all sacred pieces—are extant. He was among the first composers to begin to unify the musical setting of the Mass. Dunstable... Read more |
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Takemitsu, Toru
Takemitsu, Toru (b Tokyo, 1930; d Tokyo, 1996). Japanese composer. Organized experimental workshop for painters and composers in Tokyo, 1951. Designed Space Theatre at Osaka Exposition 1970. Visiting prof., Yale Univ. 1975. Comp... |
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Family following ancient tradition; Martin Longley previews tonight's...
...Sukeyasu Shiba's Japanese ancestors have been...Shiba himself is a composer, a player of the...focusing on the legacy of Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. The second half...research into the ancient Japanese ... |
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Toru Takemitsu.(composer)(Obituary)
...concerto for biwa (the Japanese lute) and shakuhachi...number of other young Japanese composers to gain an entree to...Such music, which Toru Takemitsu saw as a bridge between...gazing at traditional Japanese gardens and ... |
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Obituary: Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu, the Japanese composer, was one...contemporary composers anywhere...all things Japanese." His interest...the leading Japanese composer of the preceding...in music ... |
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Two recordings of Toru Takemitsu compositions make invigorating music....
...with the music of Toru Takemitsu, but the titles this Japanese composer thinks up for his...are intriguing. Takemitsu pieces often carry...new releases use Takemitsu titles to give...20th-century composers. ... |
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Toru Takemitsu, Timelessly Contemporary
...music, the works of Toru Takemitsu usually come as a revelation. The Japanese composer's soundscapes...modern audiences. Takemitsu, who died in 1996...The Life and Music of Toru Takemitsu," a mini-festival... |
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Books -- Confronting Silence by Toru Takemitsu
...Confronting Silence, by Toru Takemitsu. Fallen Leaf Press...1995. 155 pp. Composers turn to the written...critics and analysts. Toru Takemitsu is Japan's foremost composer of Western concert...audiences, particularly ... |
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Toru Takemitsu's world of music
...that led to Toru Takemitsu's becoming Japan's leading composer. During the...work as a film composer ("Woman in...Award. The composer recalled his...question. "Toru! Are you rich yet?" Takemitsu held the ... |
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The Music of Toru Takemitsu & Toru Takemitsu: A Rio-Bibliography. (Book...
...bibliography, index. Toru Takemitsu: A Rio-Bibliography...The music of Toru Takemitsu is perhaps the...oeuvre produced by a composer born and raised...pantheon populated by composers with genotypical...where they exist, ... |
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The man who loved the world Toru Takemitsu wrote great music and shaped...
...later that Takemitsu's widow...him that the composer had been listening...tell you that Japanese people tend...vision of Toru Takemitsu by speaking...people in Japanese cultural life...fervently: "Most ... |
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Tribute to Takemitsu caring, exhilarating A breath of cosmic air
...comparably long association with the great Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. After Takemitsu died in 1996, it was fitting for Serkin and...plan a memorial tribute at Tanglewood, where Takemitsu had served as ... |
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