Music Today

Japanese: Music Today(英語表記)MusicToday
Music Today

... In the 1970s, the "Takemitsu Toru Festival" was held in Paris, London, and other cities. He also served as the music director of the Steel Museum at the World Expo in 1970, and using this experience, he began planning and supervising the contemporary music festival "Music Today" in 1973, introducing new music from Japan and abroad and influencing the younger generation of composers and performers. His works such as "Sound, so that it can be measured against silence" (1971), "Mirror of the trees, mirror of the grassland" (1975), "Sound, words, humans" (1980), and "Quotation of dreams" (1984) raise sharp questions about contemporary Japanese music and culture as a whole. ...

*Some of the terms mentioned in "Music Today" are explained below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 1970年代に入ってからはパリ,ロンドンなどで〈武満徹フェスティバル〉が開催された。一方,1970年に万国博鉄鋼館の音楽監督を務め,その体験を生かして73年に現代音楽祭〈今日の音楽Music Today〉の企画・監修の仕事を開始し,内外の新しい音楽を紹介,若い世代の作曲家・演奏家に影響を与えた。また《音,沈黙と測りあえるほどに》(1971),《樹の鏡,草原の鏡》(1975),《音・ことば・人間》(1980),《夢の引用》(1984)などの著作は,日本の現代音楽と文化全体に対する鋭い問題提起の書となっている。…

※「Music Today」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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