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Coincidentally, two pieces inspired by Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake, were premiered a week apart and had practically the same name. Toru Takemitsu's rippling Riverrun (1984) was given its first performance by Pianist Peter Serkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Conductor Simon Rattle. Stephen Albert's ambitious RiverRun debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, under Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with the National Symphony. In Manhattan, Violinist Gidon Kremer played the U.S. premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor...
...other hand, the concerto by Takemitsu, 54, is a delicate, elusive short piece in one movement that is more obviously Joycean in its free-flowing play of ideas. Hardly a bravura technical display, it is instead restrained; if Albert's River Liffey is sometimes a raging torrent, Takemitsu's is a gentle stream...
...rote work and rigidity in Japanese schools, says Dr. Takemitsu Hemmi, a Tokyo University professor of mental health, "produces a system in which students don't have to be able to discuss. They just say, 'Yes, I understand.' The system does not encourage great creativity or individuality." Admits former Education Minister Michio Nagai: "It is not an exaggeration to say that education designed to develop men who love learning and think for themselves has already been abandoned." Worried by a rise in youth crime and an increase in assaults on teachers (though the totals are still...
...provinces, and is preserved in the Noh, Bunraku and Kabuki theaters. "We never had a national traditional music," says Toyama. "It was strictly apportioned by classes: the courts, the samurai, the merchants each had their own. But everyone can participate in the Western system." Although some composers like Toru Takemitsu have lately attempted to synthesize traditional music with Western styles, the two forms remain worlds apart, with little overlap in audience...
Tashi (Tibetan for good fortune) is the most radical and freewheeling of the young groups. An unusual combination of instrumentspiano, violin or viola, cello and clarinet?Tashi adds or subtracts members and friends for various pieces, which range from Schubert to contemporary Japanese Composer Toru Takemitsu. A Tashi concert is like a jam session of pros: the music sounds both spontaneous and polished. The four have recorded a superb version of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, one of the few major works written for their mix of instruments...