Symphony No.3 "Shadows of Japanese Children" I.

Symphony No.3 "The Shadows of Japanese Children" by Michael Cooke is a four-movement work based on Japanese music. A book found in a Dallas used bookstore, Unforgettable Fire, inspired it. Atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki filled this book with drawings and stories. Many were about children turned into ash statues - their shadows burned on the ground. This very powerful book reminds us that war is not a video game. This work is dedicated to those children.
The first movement, "Shadows Playing on the Ground", makes use of a melody in a Japanese classical piece by Kengyo Fujinaga called "Yachiyo Jishi" (1741-1744).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• symphony
• orchestra
• modern
• chamber
• composer
• composition
• Japanese
• Cooke

[GoolInTheCellar]

Can you upload the whole thing?

[SFCCO]

We have all 4 movements posted on Youtube just visit SFCCO's channel to see that whole symphony.

[IchimaruToushiro]

they should use this in spirited away

[megadeth667]

Next best thing to Heavy Metal

[friskitz]

man i love symphonies like this they sound cool and they relax me :)

[ayanuhito]

her silver flute almost sounds like a bamboo.!

[Abraham609]

beautiful song

[Abraham609]

This sounds like a song from spirited away. This song is beautiful i love

[reaperofgenocide]

I guess its enchanting enough to give the feel youre in ancient egypt... or some kind of place like that. I could see this song working for many things.

[IchimaruToushiro]

for some reason this music is in the game pharaoh... but pharaoh is meant to be a game about egypt...

[ProgRockDan1]

Beautiful combination of East and West.