Confronting Silence: Selected Writings (Fallen Leaf Monographs on Contemporary Composers)
by Toru Takemitsu, Yoshiko Kakudo, Glenn Glasow
Category: Music

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.