Toru Takemitsu - (1/3) From me flows what you call Time (part one)

Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, Takemitsu Tōru, October 8, 1930 - February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory.

From Me Flows What You Call Time for 5 percussionists and orchestra (1990)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis

Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen.

In 1958, he received international attention for his Requiem for strings (1957) which resulted in several commissions from across the world, and settled his reputation as the leading Japanese composer of the 20th century. He was the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and honours; he composed over one hundred film scores and about one hundred and thirty concert work for ensembles of various sizes and combinations. He also found time to write a detective novel and appeared frequently on Japanese television as a celebrity chef.

In the foreword to a selection of Takemitsu's writings in English, conductor Seiji Ozawa writes: "I am very proud of my friend Tōru Takemitsu. He is the first Japanese composer to write for a world audience and achieve international recognition

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[AlexLieb2802]

Where are the pictures from?

[bartje11]

@AlexLieb2802 Astronomy picture of the day.

[percussionist624]

Is the electric motor in the vibraphone turned on in the part at 3:30?

[CapnKeys]

it's awesome but i wish the volume wasn't so low

[steadric]

Toru Takemitsu seems like he was quite the success.

[jameslo93]

amazing

[Enantiodromialist]

Oh, and note the conspicuous fleeting homages to Bernard Herrmann - messages from one unrecognized transcendant master to another, Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia times infinity. Beautiful.