| The New York Times |
Koichiro Harada in Jap. works |
Will Cruthfield |
12/22/86 |
Positive |
..the first 8 violin notes bear dynamic markings.... |
Review |
| The New York Times |
Music: New Works From Japan |
John Rockwell |
12/21/76 |
Positive |
"many of the effects and performances were exemplary" |
Review |
| The New York Times |
Musical Meeting of East & West |
John Rockwell |
12/17/76 |
Neutral |
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Article |
| The Strad |
Concerts |
Ken Smith |
5/95 |
Positive |
"...uses a pentatonic scale and lively rhythms to capture an almost universal folkloric quality. The musicians maintained an amicable confusion throughout." |
Review |
| American Record Guide |
Record Reviews |
Ellis |
12/93 |
Positive |
"...gamelan sonorities swirl and spiral around piano and trombone improvisations to create intoxicating variations on the recurring cell groups." |
Review |
| American Record Guide |
Record Reviews |
Ellis |
12/93 |
Positive |
"It works wonderfully and seems to be what Noriko Ohtake hints at when writing about Takemitsu of a music that doesn't imitate nature but 'achieves equivalence with [it]'. |
Review |
| The New York Times |
Aki Takahashi, Pianist |
Bernard Holland |
1/16/89 |
Positive |
"...refers to the American poems of Wallace Stevens" |
Review |
| The Village Voice |
Aki Takahashi |
Voice ads |
1/17/89 |
Neutral |
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Article |
| The Village Voice |
In the Loops |
Kyle Gann |
2/14/89 |
Positive |
This was hard-edged than its title connoted, at least in his sister's hands. A spare, diatonic idiom, beginning with merely one line, later adding a quiet bass ostinato, repeated perfect 4ths. |
Review |
| The New York Times |
Music From Japan Festival, Asia Society |
Alex Ross |
3/27/93 |
Positive |
"...patiently intertwined a group of modal melodies inspired by a Jim Sugawara poem." |
Review |