SKU: PR.114410790

ISBN 9781491112687. UPC: 680160015580. 9 x 12 inches.

THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI was inspired by the eerie darkness and ambiguous bells of the oldest Western church in Japan. Dorff’s program note describes impressions of his visit to Nagasaki while withholding any explanation of the three movements. The 13-minute work is a duo for violin and one percussionist, with an array of pitched and unpitched ringing metallic instruments plus bass drum.
THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI was inspired by the ambiguous bells of the oldest Western church in Japan.In an island nation that used to thrive on isolation from the rest of the world, Nagasaki has long been a vulnerable exception. From the 16th through 19th centuries, it was Japan’s only international port, open to Portuguese and Dutch traders. From this sole crossroads, Christianity (along with European food, flowers, and language) began flowing into the otherwise insular culture. The US Navy’s presence in the 1800s added to Nagasaki being Japan’s exposed Achilles’ heel, which may be why Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is set in this city, with Cho-Cho-San’s vulnerability symbolizing the risk of openness to Western influence.I’ve had occasion to visit Nagasaki, and have never felt so haunted. Aside from the unspeakable atrocity of 1945 and the lasting presence of that horror, there also remains a mysterious air of not really being in pure Japan, or in the present day. Nowhere was this more obvious than within the Ōura Basilica, the earliest Christian church built in Japan. Decades after visiting the basilica, I still recall its oddly distorted and slowly pealing bells, and timeless incense floating in relative darkness. The mysterious bells have stayed with me both for their own sonority, and as a subconscious reminder of everything Nagasaki is and was.Composed for a violinist-percussionist couple who ended a decades-long relationship just as I completed the work (and never performing it), it was originally called simply THREE MYSTERIES; I couldn’t make a direct reference in the title because it felt too raw. Looking back years later, the updated title THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI seems to ask more questions than it answers.

SKU: YM.GTP01094508

ISBN 9784636945089.

24 arrangements from Guru Guru Curtain to Influencer.

1. Influencer; 2. Sayonarano Imi; 3. Hadashide Summer; 4. Nogizaka no Uta; 5. Halzion ga saku koro; 6. Hitoriyogari; 7. Kikkake; 8. Kanashimino Wasurekata; 9. Kokoro no kusuri; 10. Anata no Tameni Hikitai; 11. Ima Hanashitai Darekaga Iru; 12. Taiyo Knock; 13. Inochiwa Utsukushii; 14. Naondome no Aozora ka?; 15. Natsu no Free & Easy; 16. Kizuitara Kataomoi; 17. Valletta; 18. Girl's Rule; 19. Kimino Nawa Kibo; 20. Seifuku no Mannequin; 21. Hashire! Bicycle; 22. Oide Shampoo; 23. Guruguru Curtain; 24. Anata no Tamani Hikitai.

SKU: HL.14045711

ISBN 9788438708262. Spanish.

SKU: HL.14045681

ISBN 9788438708194. Spanish.

SKU: HL.133910

Author: Noskowski.

SKU: HL.132976

UPC: 884088978105.

SKU: HL.132972

UPC: 884088978068.

SKU: HL.133585

Author: Noskowski.

SKU: HL.133838

Author: Noskowski.

SKU: HL.132974

UPC: 884088978082.

SKU: HL.133859

Author: Noskowski.

SKU: HL.132975

ISBN 9788322407585. UPC: 884088978099. 8.5x11.75x0.3 inches.

SKU: HL.134055

Author: Noskowski.