Six years after his death, Toru Takemitsu, a man who stood less than 5 feet tall, is seen as a giant in 20th century music, the first composer to significantly bridge East and West. Yet what is most ...

Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu creates a strange yet beautiful world, of yearning, of submerged complexity, of perfectly weighted timbres, of magical spans, of clouded, sensuous sound. The ability ...