Day 246
Takemitsu: Towards the sea
Toronto new music ensemble
Takemitsu was the first Japanese composer (as least as far as I am aware) who entered the mainstream of western music. I did heard some of his music when I was a student but I would struggle to name any particular piece.
Towards the sea is a shortish 3 movement piece for flute and guitar. Had it not been for the title I would not have detected association between the music and the sea. It seemed to me that this was a fairly anonymous piece - not unpleasant but having little to say. There was lots of gentle ‘plink-plonk’ on the guitar and flutter tounging on the flute but it seems rather like a couple of experienced musicians who had a background in jazz as well as classical music sitting down to improvise. Nothing wrong in that, of course, but there didn’t seem to be anything of substance here.
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