Aaron Rabushka ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>First time music has been composed for Shakuhachi and a western orchestra?
>Rembmer Takemitsu's "November Steps" that features a shakuhachi and a biwa
>in front of a western orchestra.

   Perhaps you have heard: The sound which a shakuhachi master hopes to
   achieve, the consummate shakuhachi sound, is the sound the wind makes
   when it blows through a decaying bamboo grove.

  Toru Takemitsu (from liner notes to the 1967 Toronto SO/Ozawa recording)

Deryk Barker
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