Saint-Saens

This week I’ll introduce a person of many talents. He is not only classical composer, he is also good at playing piano, playing organ, astronomy, mathematics, poetry and philosophy. Especially, they say that his poetry is excellent. Therefore, his personality is very bending. For example, he said to a certain pianist “I wonder a low level of pianist like you could become pianist.” But his works is very excellent, especially, “Symphony No.3” is the most famous and popular work. I like this piece better than any other pieces. The strong point of this symphony is using organ in 2^nd movement and 4^th movement effectively (this symphony is divided to two sections, but each section is divided to two sections, actually, this symphony has four movements). The impact of organ in 4^th movement is over powering, so I recommend you to listen to this symphony in the hall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKiZRWyv20&feature=fvw

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I’ll introduce this week a composer graduated from Hokkaido University. Akira Ihukube is a Japanese famous composer of classical music. He is famous for “The theme of Godzilla.” His works is very different from works of foreigners. He composes originating from Japanese folk songs and he take a serious view of character of Japanese music. So, his works have Japanese character. We can watch a lot of obstinate in his music. This many uses of obstinate is sometimes criticized by his master because it is a weak point of modern music. However, he emphasized that this obstinate has very importance in asia music. In fact, this obstinate makes his works unique, characteristic and powerful, and in the theme of godzilla this obstinate is used.