Daisy Montrachet • 한승아

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[ryuichi sakamoto @ryuichisakamoto]

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"Ghost" from "Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son"
by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Listen: https://t.co/i2gTH3J5HG

Sakamoto's original motion picture soundtrack for director Yoji Yamada's film "Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son (2015)", starring longtime actor Sayuri Yoshinaga, portraying a mother whose son dies in the 1945 atomic bomb in Nagasaki and visits her as a ghost until she herself passes on.

The story is a tribute to an unfinished play by the writer Hisashi Inoue following his play about Hiroshima, "Chichi to Kuraseba." It was Ryuichi's first score since recovering from oropharyngeal cancer in 2014.
Director Yoji Yamada and Sayuri Yoshinaga's personal visit to Ryuichi, asking him to compose the music, led to the project.
Sakamoto and the Tokyo Philharmonic performed a wide variety of music per the director's wish for a performance filled with feelings of requiem for the victims of the war, including those of the atomic bomb.
"The score he created is masterfully emotional, to the point where you don't have to see the film to feel the gravity of its plot. But what makes "Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son" special is the way Sakamoto evokes deep feeling without easy sentiment or maudlin clichés. Though he employs many standard soundtrack tools — swelling strings, echoing piano, mournful woodwinds — he limits them to hushed tones and reserved tempos. This music unfolds slowly and quietly, suggesting that the proper way to process this story is meditative contemplation rather than rushed melodrama." - excerpted from an NPR review by Marc Masters.

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[sanrio daily ✨ @sanriodaily]

if you’ve ever wondered what the first even hello kitty item was, it was this coin purse from 1975 🫶🏻

[細野晴臣 House of Haruomi Hosono @hosonoharuomi_]

6月6日高橋幸宏さんお誕生日

細野晴臣が選曲した2022年公開の幸宏さん楽曲プレイリストです

This is a playlist of Yukihiro Takahashi's songs selected by Haruomi Hosono for his birthday, June 6.

🎧https://t.co/Ms2oI0Df1s

Please enjoy

[Daisy Montrachet • 한승아 @MargaretMayHan]

R.I.P. Damon Suzuki

[Michael Rother @_MichaelRother_]

Damo impassioned generations of musicians, but most importantly, he was a kind and gentle soul.
Here is when I was fortunate to meet him and to perform with him at a Jaki Liebezeit memorial concert in Cologne in 2018. Rest in peace, Damo. May your spirit keep on inspiring us.

[矢野顕子 Akiko Yano @Yano_Akiko]

It’s today! 日本からも聴けるかな？
先日ニューヨークでインタヴュー受けました。

BBC Radio 6 Music - Gilles Peterson, Daudi Matsiko Maida Vale & Akiko Yano https://t.co/xO5pfBLxaM

[Daisy Montrachet • 한승아 @MargaretMayHan]

Zinaida Serebriakova

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This painting is 115 years old.

It's by Zinaida Serebriakova, a remarkable artist with a remarkable life involving both World Wars, the Russian Revolution, Paris, and personal tragedy.

This is her story...

[細野晴臣 House of Haruomi Hosono @hosonoharuomi_]

映画「風の谷のナウシカ」劇場公開
40周年記念「風の谷のナウシカ」   「銀色のハーモニカ」のリメイク版が1月31日に配信決定！
安田成美／Vocal
細野晴臣／Sound design

"風の谷のナウシカ
人はなぜ傷つけ合うの？安田成美が時を経て届ける歌う手紙"

https://t.co/zbaQTBNKwv

[David Simon @AoDespair]

In solidarity, every newspaper or digital news site in the state should publish the report tomorrow.

[ryuichi sakamoto @ryuichisakamoto]

In celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto's birthday, his Japanese label, @commmons will host a one-night-only event on January 17th, 2024.

"async premium night"
https://t.co/B3bWowPE6a
The tickets will go on sale on 12/21 at noon (JST).

#skmtnews #ryuichisakamoto #async

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

How can something built 2,000 years ago still be standing today?

The most enigmatic Roman engineering wonders - a thread 🧵

1. The Pantheon, Rome, Italy (c.128 AD)

[ryuichi sakamoto @ryuichisakamoto]

TIME
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani

Japan Premiere

TOKYO
3.28 | Thu.|-4.14 | Sun. I. 2024
New National Theatre. Tokvo. Plavhouse

KYOTO
4.27 | Sat. I- 4.28 | Sun. I. 2024
ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Main Hall

https://t.co/I9EMCM0JaL

#TIME #ryuichisakamoto #shirotakatani

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A brief history of urban parks:

[Daisy Montrachet • 한승아 @MargaretMayHan]

Hugh Ferriss

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Hugh Ferriss is one of the most important architects in history, even though he never designed a single building.

He shaped the skyline of New York, helped to create Art Deco architecture, and even inspired Gotham City.

How? With his drawings of imaginary skyscrapers...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

That time a horse sneaked into a cycling race

In 1997, a horse jumped over a fence and joined the peloton of the of the Critérium International, eventually passing it, leaving the race only 20 km from the finish line.
https://t.co/uOPaO6WMP5

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

On this day 197 years ago the world's first ever public railway was opened in northern England.

And a whole new form of architecture was born: the train station.

So, to celebrate, here are some of the world's greatest train stations...

[League of the Lexicon @LeagueOfLexicon]

Today's #nationalpunctuationday. To mark this auspicious occasion, we've prepared a handy usage guide to some less-than-common punctuation.

[Carnegie Hall @carnegiehall]

Experience Leonard Bernstein and Mstislav Rostropovich—two legendary musicians of the 20th century—perform Schumann’s Cello Concerto on the stage of Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, now available on Carnegie Hall+: https://t.co/PAZ9pfz24a

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

How it felt to gulp as a schoolboy 100 years ago, at 4.30 AM...

[Opera with Opera News @operamagazine]

A very happy 88th birthday to Seiji Ozawa!

[Archinect @archinect]

Tadao Ando opens ‘Space of Light’ pavilion in South Korea

https://t.co/0NQ7Z4j5tj

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