Seiji Ozawa: 3 books

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former...

Réflexion passionnante sur la force de la création, la générosité du musicien et la puissance de l'imagination, De la musique est une œuvre lumineuse qui nous dévoile deux artistes hors du commun et nous offre au passage un nouvel éclairage sur l'œuvre murakamienne. Haruki Murakami n'est...

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.