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Article: Toru Takemitsu.(composer)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 2, 1996
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TOWARDS the end of the second world war, when Toru Takemitsu, aged 14, was a conscript in a gang of labourers building an army camp, a friend played a recording of a French medieval chanson that had somehow escaped the censors. "I did not know there was such beautiful music in the world," recalled Mr Takemitsu, who, like other Japanese lads, was provided with a daily diet of clunky marching songs with such titles as "Holding the Remains of my Comrade". He made the decision that "if the war ever ended, I would become a musician." A year later Douglas MacArthur's victorious troops drove into Tokyo bringing with them democracy, chewing gum and western music.
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Article: TORU TAKEMITSU AND THE JAPANESSE NEW WAVE
The Boston Globe;
May 12, 2005 ;
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...The Harvard Film Archive looks eastward for its latest series, "Toru Takemitsu and the Japanese New Wave," which is entering its second and final week. Takemitsu composed music for all of the series' films, an eclectic lot where realism ...
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