"Takemitsu's music is like a journey along a river: If you wish to travel on it, you must submit to it freely"!

What makes Takemitsu's music so special

It is:

• sensual
• seductive
• spontaneous
• atmospheric
• scenic
• flexible
• slow moving
• relaxing
• ever changing
• erotic
• spiritual
• reflective
• descriptive
• textural
• where east meets west

It is not:

• complex
• modernistic
• monumental
• governed by theory
• constructed rhythmically
• linear
• mechanical
• developmental
• goal orientated