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Music for Mishima

1984

Music by Philip Glass

SYNOPSIS:
A stylized, fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan’s celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko’s House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, “The Last Day.”

PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers

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AVAILABLE SCORES

String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) Parts at MusicRoom.com

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CATEGORIES

Film, Chamber, Orchestral