We return with music for
your Sunday, & continue with our September feature on composer Toru
Takemitsu.
Today’s selection is the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of Takemitsu’s 1977 composition, “A
Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden”. Gene Tyranny, writing for the
Allmusic site,
described the composer’s inspiration as follows:
This beautifully titled
composition for orchestra was inspired by a dream in which the composer saw a
flock of white birds, led by a single black bird swirling around and then
descending into a pentagonal or star-shaped garden. The garden, however, turned
out to be the star on the back of artist Marcel Duchamp's head in the famous
photograph by Man Ray.
I’d encourage you to read
the entire Allmusic entry on “A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden”,
which can be found at the link given above, as well as the essay on the piece
at this link.
Hope you enjoy the music.
Image links to its source
on Wiki Commons:
“A painting of birds and flowers”: Kitayama Kangan(1767 - 1801). Circa 1800.
Public domain.
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