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The soundtrack to the Japanese drama film Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito, "one who sends off") directed by Yōjirō Takita featured musical score written and produced by Joe Hisaishi and featured orchestral performances from the Tokyo Metropolitan and NHK Symphony Orchestras. [1]
In Japan, Kimura was awarded the Kenzo Nakajima Music Prize in 1995. [10] Her commissions include PluckLand for Shamisen and Violin with interactive computer (for Music From Japan Festival 2009), [11] InterAct Sweet for orchestra (for Chautauqua Regional Youth Symphony 2008), [12] GuitarBotana commissioned by Harvestworks, [13] Violin Concerto for violin and interactive computer system with ...
for violin, cello, guitar, electronic organ and 2 piccolos: revised version of Sonant (1965) Chamber music: 1966: 悲歌: Hika (Elegy) for violin and piano: Chamber music: 1966: エクリプス<蝕> Eclipse: for biwa and shakuhachi: Chamber music: 1968: クロス・トーク: Cross Talk: for bandoneón and tape: Chamber music: 1969 ...
Kawai incorporates Japanese instruments, including the shakuhachi, biwa, shō, taiko drums, hichiriki, and koto, into her music. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] She has performed on a number of unique and rare instruments, including on the world's first glass violin (2008), [ 16 ] on a 1715 Stradivarius owned by the University of Osaka (2021), [ 17 ] [ 18 ...
The song reached number one on Billboard Japan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He then joined Dion on her nationwide promotional tour making television appearances and performed the song during her 1996–1997 Falling into You Tour and her 1998–1999 Let's Talk About Love Tour as guest violinist.
As CARE ambassador, Steinbacher is driven to use music as a means to uplift and support those in need. She launched a December 2011 Japan tour in response to the tsunami disaster earlier that year. The DVD release Arabella Steinbacher – Music of Hope featured her outreach, and youth recitals from this tour and was released shortly after.
On 10 September 2008, three days before the Japanese premiere of Departures, a soundtrack album for the film—containing nineteen tracks from the film and featuring an orchestral performance by members of the Tokyo Metropolitan and NHK Symphony Orchestras—was released by Universal Music Japan. [86]
Night After Night is a live album recorded by the British band U.K. It features the trio lineup of Eddie Jobson, John Wetton, and Terry Bozzio.. Recorded in late May and early June 1979 at Nakano Sun Plaza Hall and Nippon Seinenkan, Tokyo, Japan, it is UK's third album and their first live recording, released in September 1979 in support of the band's US tour supporting Jethro Tull (which ...