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 Duration: 00:31:00 <br/>
 ISBN: 978-4-8906-6448-1 <br/>
 == Instrumentation ==

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Recent Performance

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			== Program Notes ==
			Commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its music director Seiji Ozawa, From me flows what you call Time is a perfect example of Takemitsu's particular blend of East and West. Performed on the occasion of Carnegie Hall's centenary, the work is meant to spiritually reflect the century of music that has "flowed" through the venue. Takemitsu took the evocative title from a poem "Clear Blue Water" by his friend, Japanese poet Makoto Ooka.

			Central to this work are the individual performers of the Toronto-based percussion ensemble Nexus, who performed the premiere. For Takemitsu, each of the five members was made to represent an aspect of the Tibetan Buddhist principle of "Wind Horse," an image conjured from the notion of the enlightened human being "riding" Nature. At the premiere performance on October 19, 1990, five colored ribbons, representing the five natural phenomena of water (blue), fire (red), earth (yellow), wind (green), and sky (white) linked the performers to bells placed about the theater. This effect, as well as the huge array of world percussion (including Japanese temple bowls placed cleverly on top of timpani drums, Indonesian wooden angklungs, and Pakistani Noah bells, to name a few) infuse the work with deep solemnity and an atmosphere of ritual.

			A solo flute intones a delicate phrase whose initial 5-note motive becomes an idée fixe as it is passed between instruments throughout the work. This opening phrase, named in the score "A Breath of Air," turns out to be an invocation, inviting the soloists to enter the hall. Once the players have reached their positions, tremolo cellos and basses emote a "Premonition." A chorus of Caribbean steel drums bring a brief "Plateau," and a repeating marimba figure gives way to a section curiously titled "Curved Horizon." "The Wind Blows" sets harps into wispy glissandos and an active, quasi-Arabic solo cello theme portrays a momentary desert "Mirage."

			As the piece proceeds, there are several opportunities for the percussionists to improvise around a loosely grouped series of notes. One of these extended improvisations, featuring hollowed-out log drums, gives way to an expansive statement portentously titled "The Promised Land." The seldom-heard oboe d'amore (imported from the Baroque era) leads us into "Life's Joys and Sorrows," in which desperately Romantic gestures disappear into thin air as quickly as they arrived. Another improvisatory section featuring a Turkish darabukkah drum and tom-toms leads to a simple "Prayer" for the closing moments of the work whose sound takes on an unexpectedly three-dimensional perspective.

	== Recent Performance ==		== Recent Performance ==

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			== Recent Performance ==
			<embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnf7OIIfsc </embedvideo>
			<embedvideo service="youtube"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTe_WCguQqs </embedvideo>

	== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==		== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==

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= Soloist

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	== Instrumentation ==		== Instrumentation ==
	=== Soloist ==		=== Soloist ===
	Player 1: [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Vibraphone]] & [[Steel Drum]] & [[Crotales]] <br/>		Player 1: [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Vibraphone]] & [[Steel Drum]] & [[Crotales]] <br/>
	Player 2: 7 [[Pakistan Noah bells]] & 5 [[Thai gongs]] & [[Crotalphone]] & 2 [[Japanese temple bowls]] on pedal [[Timpani]] & 6 [[Chinese winter gongs]] & a pair of [[Crotales]] & [[Angklung]] & [[Arabic Drum]] & [[Wind Chimes]] <br/>		Player 2: 7 [[Pakistan Noah bells]] & 5 [[Thai gongs]] & [[Crotalphone]] & 2 [[Japanese temple bowls]] on pedal [[Timpani]] & 6 [[Chinese winter gongs]] & a pair of [[Crotales]] & [[Angklung]] & [[Arabic Drum]] & [[Wind Chimes]] <br/>
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	Player 5: [[Crotales]] & [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Marimba]] & [[Angklung]] & 2 [[Japanese temple bowls]] on pedal [[Timpani]] <br/>		Player 5: [[Crotales]] & [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Marimba]] & [[Angklung]] & 2 [[Japanese temple bowls]] on pedal [[Timpani]] <br/>
	=== Orchestra ===		=== Orchestra ===
	==== Woodwinds ===		==== Woodwinds ====
	3 [[Flute]]s: 2nd and 3rd doubling [[Piccolo]] & 3 doubling [[Alto Flute]]<br/>		3 [[Flute]]s: 2nd and 3rd doubling [[Piccolo]] & 3 doubling [[Alto Flute]]<br/>
	3 [[Oboe]]s : 2nd doubling [[oboe d'amore]] & 3rd doubling [[English Horn]]<br/>		3 [[Oboe]]s : 2nd doubling [[oboe d'amore]] & 3rd doubling [[English Horn]]<br/>

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Duration: 00:31:00
ISBN: 978-4-8906-6448-1
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[[Toru Takemitsu]]
== General Info ==
Publisher: [[Schott Music]] 
Duration: 00:31:00 
ISBN: 978-4-8906-6448-1 

== Instrumentation ==
=== Soloist ==
Player 1: [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Vibraphone]] & [[Steel Drum]] & [[Crotales]] 
Player 2: 7 [[Pakistan Noah bells]] & 5 [[Thai gongs]] & [[Crotalphone]] & 2 [[Japanese temple bowls]] on pedal [[Timpani]] & 6 [[Chinese winter gongs]] & a pair of [[Crotales]] & [[Angklung]] & [[Arabic Drum]] & [[Wind Chimes]] 
Player 3: [[Crotales]] & 5 [[Almglocken]] & [[Log Drums]] & 5 [[Tom-toms]] & [[Angklung]] & 2 [[Snare Drum]]s & [[Wind Chimes]] 
Player 4: [[Crotales]] & [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Marimba]] & 3 [[Tam-tam]] & 3 [[Suspended Cymbal]]s & 3 [[Chinese Cymbal]]s 
Player 5: [[Crotales]] & [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Marimba]] & [[Angklung]] & 2 [[Japanese temple bowls]] on pedal [[Timpani]] 
=== Orchestra ===
==== Woodwinds ===
3 [[Flute]]s: 2nd and 3rd doubling [[Piccolo]] & 3 doubling [[Alto Flute]] 
3 [[Oboe]]s : 2nd doubling [[oboe d'amore]] & 3rd doubling [[English Horn]] 
4 [[Clarinet]]s: 2nd doubling [[Soprano Clarinet]] & 3rd doubling [[Bass Clarinet]] & 4th doubling [[Contrabass Clarinet]] 
3 [[Bassoon]]s: 3rd doubling [[Contrabassoon]] 
==== Brass ====
4 [[French Horn]] 
3 [[Trumpet]] 
3 [[Trombone]] 
==== Strings ====
14 [[Violin]] 1 
12 [[Violin]] 2 
10 [[Viola]] 
8 [[Cello]] 
6 [[Double Bass]] 
2 [[Harp]] 

== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
{{Takemitsu, Toru Works}}

== Reference ==

[[Category: Percussion Ensemble Works]]
[[Category: Percussion Quintet Works]]
[[Category: Orchestra Works]]