Piano Recital: Music by Bach, Mozart, Takemitsu, Debussy, Messiaen, Chopin

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2015
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Haverford College. Department of Music
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Most of the music on my recital program is repertoire required for graduate auditions. However, the idea of having Takemitsu, Debussy, and Messiaen together on the program grew out of a project on the relationship between Japanese and French music across the 20th Century. The Impressionist Movement was profoundly influenced by its contact with Japanese art and thought, especially Japanese prints that made their way into France after the opening of Japan in the 1850s. Thus, Debussy's radical new treatment of musical texture and timbre and his abandonment of traditional form and harmony took place in an artistic environment informed and inspired by its contact with Japanese and other Asian aesthetics. I believe Takemitsu's emulation of Debussy and Messiaen later in the 20th Century reflects a continuing relationship of mutual affinity and influence between French and Japanese artistic culture rather than a Japanese adoption of a Western idiom or mode of thought.
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