![]() ![]() Echoes of Japan are ever present in Tokaido Road but imaginatively bent to new creative purposes. Like Britten, Nicola LeFanu adapts the sounds of traditional Japanese music to her own purposes. I was reasonably content with my conclusions which I share with you here: yet even as I ended my talk, I felt the tingling of a new line of thought… To begin, here is an extract from the end of my paper:Īnd whilst we certainly didn’t set out to create a Curlew River in Tokaido Road, I think that I can say we share with Britten, a tourist’s fascination with Japanese culture and a desire to get beyond the merely superficial Japonaiserie. It was a timely invitation to reflect on three remarkable years and to lay to rest some of the thorny questions about the mix of arts and two cultures which had been keeping me awake at night. Two weeks ago, I gave a paper at Kogakkan University, Ise (Japan) called ‘ Tokaido Road, a Bridge Between East and West’. ![]()
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