Kaze Ni Noru 風 に 乗る

Programme notes

Doddodo dodoodo, blow away the green chestnuts too, blow away the sour quinces too sings Matasaburu at the end of Miyazawa Kenji’s famous story entitled Kaze no Matasaburu. A child comes from a faraway town to a little schoolhouse in the mountains because of his father’s job posting. Because his facial features and dress are quite different from the other village children, the new comer looks like a foreigner to them. The children wonder if he could really be an impersonation of the wind. The multi-layered meanings of Miyazawa’s story resonated deeply inside me: we humans remain fragile against the unpredictable and destructive powers of nature, the individual and creative human being remains fragile against the power of institutionalized society. I endeavored to express these meanings in a metaphoric, mischievous, dense and fast symphonic poem based on no more than three musical ideas within a precise structural framework. The music surges out of nowhere, breezes, whirls, twists, howls, whistles, howls, rattles and vanishes in thin air: doh doh doh....aoi kurumi mo, fuki to ba se suppai karin mo fuki to ba se doh dohdo....

Handwritten sketches and drafts

to be found on page 225 of the red cover, A4 size, 377 pages sketchbook and page 98 of the yellow cover logbook #4

Completion of the composition

 13-X-2013

Analysis

see Kaze Ni Noru (2015) in Articles

Recordings

audio in link#1 and video in link #3

Score follower

link #2