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	Tōru Takemitsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tōru Takemitsu (武満徹 Takemitsu Tōru, October 8, 1930–February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer of music, who explored the compositional principles of Western classical music and his native Japanese tradition both in isolation and in combination.
		Takemitsu at first had little interest in traditional Japanese music, but later incorporated Japanese instruments such as the shakuhachi (a kind of bamboo flute) into the orchestra.
		Takemitsu's works include the orchestral piece A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (1977), Riverrun for piano and orchestra (1984, the title is the first word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake), and the string quartet A way a Lone (1981, another piece inspired by Finnegans Wake).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toru_Takemitsu (505 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Toru Takemitsu
		Takemitsu was born in 1930 in Tokyo and died in 1996.
		Takemitsu was active in festivals of modern music and was director of the Space Theatre at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
		Takemitsu's last work was a piece for the flute, and he was working on his first opera at the time of his death.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/takemitsu.html (321 words)

	Toru Takemitsu Article
		Toru invited Bob and Marion Aitken, Mary Morrison, John Wyre and myself to perform at the Space Theatre in Osaka for Expo 70.
		Toru paced back and forth telling me how important tonight's concert was and asked me not tell his wife Asaka that he had had a cigarette.
		Toru reentered the hospital and on December 24th, A group of friends and I called Tokyo from Toronto and spoke to Toru in his hospital room.
	www.nexuspercussion.com /Takemitsu.html (2844 words)

	Takemitsu, Toru
		Toru Takemitsu was born in Tokyo on 8 October 1930.
		Takemitsu first gained public recognition as a composer in the late fifties, with his "Requiem" for strings (1957).
		Takemitsu is in particular an instrumental composer and being adherent to a "musique concrète", he uses - even in his electronic pieces - solely natural sounds instead of electronic ones.
	www.schott-music.com /autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3558.html (414 words)

	Joyce - Music: Toru Takemitsu
		Toru Takemitsu was one of Japan's greatest composers and a seminal figure in modern composition.
		Takemitsu is today the inspiration for a new generation of composers such as Tan Dun, artists searching for a fresh language that utilizes both Western ritual and Eastern tradition.
		To hear Takemitsu is to be immersed in a new world, a world where the strange can seem hauntingly familiar, the familiar made strangely distant, and everything seems touched with a luminous beauty.
	www.libyrinth.com /joyce/music/takemitsu.html (696 words)

	Takemitsu, Toru Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Glenn Gould Prize: Toru Takemitsu - Profile with biography and special emphasis on his accomplishments in fusing classical Japanese, western, and modern influences, often with the visual and performing arts, into various media.
		Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) - Brief biographical sketch, summaries of orchestral and chamber music, and Naxos discography.
		Takemitsu, Toru "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
	searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_T_Takemitsu,_Toru.html (1721 words)

	The Glenn Gould Prize - Toru Takemitsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A true multimedia artist, his music is regularly featured in Takemitsu festivals around the world and has been commissioned and performed by orchestras including the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and others.
		Takemitsu's music is known for its preoccupation with timbre and texture and for its silence.
		Takemitsu's prodigious output (much of which has been recorded) includes work for symphony orchestras, choirs, chamber ensembles, traditional Japanese gagaku orchestra and electronics.
	www.glenngould.com /gg/toru.html (370 words)

	Takemitsu, Toru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Toru Takemitsu was a composer who established new bridges between east and west.
		My first teacher was the radio." (W. Breyer in conversation with Toru Takemitsu: My music is like a garden, and I am the gardener.) Takemitsu brought some of his early pieces to Kiyose for evaluation, but Kiyose mainly talked about art and did not teach his talented student anything about composing techniques.
		Takemitsu was greatly influenced by his friend Cage's philosophy that music and life coexist: "I believe the existence of a stream of sounds.
	www.stevenestrella.com /composers?composerfiles/takemitsu1996.html (1045 words)

	Takemitsu, Toru on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1951 in Tokyo Takemitsu organized the Experimental Workshop, the first of several avant-garde groups he founded.
		Championed by Igor Stravinsky, he was the first contemporary Japanese composer to become known in the West.
		Takemitsu successfully combined serial music and other techniques from Europe and the United States with traditional Japanese modalities.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Takemits.asp (444 words)

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		As a young man, Takemitsu had a long illness, and lay for several years in bed listening to post-war American military radio.
		One of Takemitsu's favourite analogies was to compare composing and listening to music to walking through a formal Japanese garden.
		TORU TAKEMITSU - AN APPRECIATION : an article by Peter Grilli, a long time friend of Takemitsu.
	www.soundintermedia.co.uk /treeline-online/biog.html (836 words)

	Library of Congress Presents Toru Takemitsu Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Masatoshi Mitsumoto is the conductor and artistic director for the project, which is titled “Mirror of Tree, Mirror of Field: The Life and Music of Toru Takemitsu.” Presented in cooperation with the Japan Foundation, the tribute opens the 80th anniversary season of the historic Concerts from the Library of Congress series, founded in 1925.
		The festival marks the 75th anniversary of Toru Takemitsu’s birth with a chamber music concert, screenings of 10 films with scores by the composer, and a roundtable discussion of his music with scholars, composers and film experts.
		S.E., Washington, D.C. From his first film in 1956 to his death in 1996, Takemitsu was closely linked to a generation of directors who have forcefully challenged both the established norms of Japanese society and the traditional modes of filmmaking.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2005/05-193.html (578 words)

	Columbia University: Japanese Film Masters
		Half a year earlier, on February 20, composer Toru Takemitsu had succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-five.
		Internationally celebrated as Japan's foremost contemporary composer, Toru Takemitsu was equally at home in the concert hall and the film studio.
		After three decades, Takemitsu's score continues to astound filmgoers with its inventive use of the techniques of musique concrète and its unprecedented combinations of Japanese and Western musical styles.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ealac/jfm (1184 words)

	Toru Takemitsu - Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		by: Sabine Meyer, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Toru Takemitsu, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
		by: Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takashi Kako, Akira Miyoshi, Yuji Takahashi, Toru Takemitsu, Akio Yashiro, Yukie Nagai
		Toru Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream (20/21 series) - London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen
	online-savings.2xrv.com /ArtistSearch/classical/Toru+Takemitsu.html (258 words)

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		You can even follow a practical example of the project as composer Fraser Trainer and players from the London Sinfonietta work with children and teachers in London and Manchester.
		The results will be presented here and at the South Bank Centre during Spirit Garden, the first major UK retrospective of Takemitsu's music.
		There is also the opportunity for schools to publish the results of their work on this site.
	www.soundintermedia.co.uk /treeline-online/home.html (248 words)

	Toru Takemitsu - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many would take issue with the characterization of Takemitsu as mainly a film score composer.
		Altho he did 93 film scores, his more than 130 classical compositions are more substantial.
		Dutch composer and jazz musician Willem Breuker has received an "Ehrenurkunde" in Berlin, connected with the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik".
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=takemits (302 words)

	Toru Takemitsu Classical Music - Cheap Prices
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		Takemitsu - Air; Anthen I knew t'was the wind; Eucalypts; et seq.
		Takemitsu - A Song of Circles and Triangles
	www.oninoclassical.co.uk /classical-shrink/1170 (115 words)

	Amazon.com: Toru Takemitsu: CANTOS - Fantasma/Cantos / Water-Ways / Waves / Quatrain II - Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Toru Takemitsu: CANTOS - Fantasma/Cantos / Water-Ways / Waves / Quatrain II - Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet
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	Newsday: Toru Takemitsu, 65, Japanese Composer@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Newsday: Toru Takemitsu, 65, Japanese Composer@ HighBeam Research
		Tokyo - Toru Takemitsu, a Japanese composer who won worldwide
		Among Takemitsu's best-known works is "November Steps," which
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:4334733&... (146 words)

	Takemitsu: Web Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Masaki Kobayashi and Toru Takemitsu -with Peter Grilli's notes on the films (Columbia University)
		Dedicated to Takemitsu - includes some translations of Takemitsu's writings
		Toru Takemitsu: his music and philosophy - mostly in Japanese
	www-personal.usyd.edu.au /~lcornwel/taklinks.html (71 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Toru Takemitsu: MAIN
		Self-taught musician and composer Toru Takemitsu embraced the leading edge of Japanese new wave music, a style that blended western classical music...
		Peter Burt, The Music of Toru Takemitsu (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Noriko Ohtake, Creative sources for the Music of Toru Takemitsu (Ashgate, 1993)...
		Bronze by Gold is a site devoted to exploring musical works based on James Joyce.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=69640 (260 words)

	Find in a Library: Toru Takemitsu a bio-bibliography
		Find in a Library: Toru Takemitsu a bio-bibliography
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		Family following ancient tradition; Martin Longley previews tonight's Symphony Hall concert by Reigakusha, combining ancient Japanese music and dance with a work by Japan's best-known 20th century composer, Toru Takemitsu.
		SERKIN MASTERFUL ON REGER, TAKEMITSU PIECES.(Entertainment)(Review) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA))
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0847681.html (264 words)

	Tôru Takemitsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Footlight.com > Takemitsu, Toru
		Features music from original film soundtracks recorded by Toru Takemitsu, including new recordings of three film scores-'Jose Torres', 'Black Rain', and 'The Face Of Another'.
		Features a collection of film music from the acclaimed Japanese composer...
		Chamber Music of Toru Takemitsu performed by the Fujita Piano Trio
	www.footlight.com /artist.cfm?artist_id=3569 (174 words)

	Reviews - Toru Takemitsu - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
		Reviews - Toru Takemitsu - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
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		Works by Toru Takemitsu, Anton Webern, Cary Boyce, & Gerardo Dirié
	www.classicstoday.com /digest/pdigest.asp?perfidx=1745 (375 words)

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