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Family Tree

Name: Family Tree
Brand: Schott Music
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Musical Verses for Young People

for narrator and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

Series: Family Tree

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'The narrator should be a young woman in her mid-teens' – Takemitsu wrote this in his score of this six-part work for orchestra and narrator which was premiered in April 1995, less than a year before his death in February 1996.

The titles of these six poems sound harmless and seem to suggest an idyllic 'musical family album'; but the texts say something different. The gaze of the fifteen-year-old girl turns to the imaginary pictures of these people, with understanding, yet not without bitterness, even despair. She loves, understands and respects them but she has to see that the family bonds have broken down – as to why and to what end remains open.

Orchestral Cast

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Content

I Once Upon a Time "Once upon a time I used to be..."
II Grandpa "Grandpa moves very slowly..."
III Grandma "Her eyes wide open..."
IV Dad "Dad's eating, staring straight ahead..."
V Mom "Closing my eyes doesn't make it dark..."
VI A Distant Place "I think I have come farther than Yotchan..."

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Title:

Family Tree

Musical Verses for Young People

for narrator and orchestra

poems by Shuntaro Tanikawa

English translation by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura

Language:

Japanese, English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

1992

Duration:

25 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

April 20, 1995 · New York, NY (USA)
Sarah Hicks, narrator · Conductor: Leonard Slatkin · New York Philharmonic

(concert) (concert performance)

Commissioned work :

commissioned by the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York for its 150th anniversary

Series:

Family Tree

Technical Details

Media Type:

Hire/performance material

Product number:

LSJ 3936-01

Manufacturer:

Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG

55116 Mainz

Germany

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Toru Takemitsu (Composer)

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Family Tree

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Musical Verses for Young People

Composer: Toru Takemitsu

Media Type: Sheet music

Edition: Study score

Series: Family Tree

Instrumentation: speakers and orchestra

Language: Japanese, English

Product number: SJ 1158

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