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Rosenblatt, Alexander : “Astro 〓Boy”

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Music ID : 5203
Composition Year:1999 
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:fantasy

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Author : Kato, Reiko

Last Updated: January 1, 2010
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

This piece is themed after Osamu Tezuka's popular anime "Astro Boy." However, it was transformed into a completely different musical style by the hand of Rosenblatt. It is said to combine characteristics of a nocturne with elements of jazz. Surprisingly, the request was not made by a Japanese person, but by Mikhail Khokhlow (director of the Gnessin School and a friend of Rosenblatt). And when Nikolai Tokarev visited Japan, he performed this piece as an encore, and the audience was reportedly delighted and it became a topic of discussion due to the unexpected melody that emerged. This appears to have been its world premiere. Then, on March 11, 2005, Rosenblatt's self-performance of his own work was realized during his first concert in Japan.

Writer: Kato, Reiko
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