Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

by Glenn Glasow, Toru Takemitsu, Yoshiko Kakudo, et al.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007D038KE
• ISBN13: 9780914913368
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"