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If you are an early riser and are in London anywhere near the Barbican, there’s an amazing Total Immersion Day going on. “The Sounds of Japan.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/947

Even if you can’t make it, you can still enjoy reading about this intro into Japanese film and traditional music . Highlights will be broadcast to night on BBC Radio 3 - it should be available on their i-player even for non-UK listeners.

Quoted from the link: “First, devote yourself to the simple act of listening,’ wrote the late pioneering Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, ‘Only then you will understand the purpose of music.”

Give your ears a treat!

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I tried to listen to the radio, but I guess Internet congestion is blocking the broadcast. Thanks for the heads-up, though.

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Well, I didn’t get to listen to it yesterday, either, but I’ll try the i-player today. They tend to keep the programmes for at least a week.

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Toru Takemitsu composed many pieces of screen music. One of them is for a film tilted Kwaidan(19674).
I have never seen the film because . . . Kwaidan (film) - Wikipedia

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Ghostly goings-on! I think I saw it, but cannot swear to it - it’s so long ago.