Anthology "Other Side River" : Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley in 1995. Review 2,
My poem "Lead
Me to Henrinji Temple" was put into an opera by Mr. Burton V. Foreman.
This music was reportedly to be used for a movie by Tokuma-shobo
but it did not happe, unfortunately.
This song was one of the three songs performed
and recorded by the Radio and Symphony Orchestra of Krakow, Poland
in mid 1994.
バートンＶ．フォーマン先生は昔 東京東洋英和大.短大教授をなさっていましたのでご存知の方もおられることと思い
ますがそのころの私は英文文芸サークルのメンバーで先生も出入りされていたようで、顔なじみでした。また
当時先生も私も東京学芸大学で教えており職員室でのお仲間でした。
フォーマン先生は語学のみならず、優れた作曲家であり、音楽も教えておられ、東京や海外でのリサイタル、オーケスト
ラの作曲家として精力的に発表もされていました。以下でご紹介するLead
Me to Heirinji Temple は、私が書いた詩が
気に入られてソプラノのための曲を作られたものです。徳間書房制作の
映画にも使用される可能性があるというお話があった
時を前後し、先生はフルオーケストラによる曲をお作りになりポーランドで録音をされました。以下の１がその音源とな
っています。現地でのきちんとした正式の録音は現在残っていないそうで残念です。現在90を迎えられた先生は90年代にシ
アトルに引退後今日の日まで毎日精力的に作曲されています。
Professor Burton V. Forman was once a professor at Tokyo Toyo Eiwa University, so some of you may know him. At that time, I was a member of the English literature circle, and it seems that the professor also came and went there, so we were familiar with each other. Additionally, both the professor and I were teaching at Tokyo Gakugei University at the time, and we were colleagues in the staff room. Professor Forman was not only skilled in languages but also an excellent composer, teaching music as well, and actively presenting his works in Tokyo and abroad through recitals and as an orchestral composer. The piece *Lead Me to Heirinji Temple*, introduced below, was composed for soprano after he liked a poem I wrote. Around the time there was talk that it might be used in a movie produced by Tokuma Shoten, the professor created a version for full orchestra and had it recorded in Poland. The first item below is that recording. Unfortunately, it seems that no properly formal recording from that location remains. Now 90 years old, the professor retired to Seattle in the 1990s and has been composing energetically every day up to the present.
Lead me to Heirinji, words by Fumiko Tachibana, Music by Burton V. Foreman
Lead me to Heirinji Temple, performed and recorded by the Radio and Symphony
Orchestra of Krakow, Poland in 1994.
"Lead Me to Heirinji Temple"
poem by Fumiko Tachibana
music by Burton V. Foreman
Lead me to Heirinji Temple
I walked alone
through rice fields
and far-reaching sky
a crow perched
on top of a leafless tree
tilting its head
forlorn (ah)
forlorn (ah)
the crow cried
forlorn (ah)
forlorn (ah)
the crow watched
a distorted face
I wish the wind would
carry away my tears
but it's too late
coming this far
to be near to you
Lead me to Heirinji, words by Fumiko Tachibana, Music by Burton V. Foreman
Lead me to Heirinji Temple for Orchestra, performed and recorded by
the Radio and Symphony Orchestra of Krakow, Poland in 1994.
Poem: New Canadian Review, summer 1983
(Piano version of Lead Me to Heirinji Temple) ピアノバージョン
Mandala, words by Fumiko Tachibana,；Music by Burton V. Foreman 曲のみ
私の趣味
Gymnopedie on ancient piano 1
Gymnopedie
March 5, 2008 12:51 PM イタリア製骨董品のピアノは音が響きすぎでこわごわ弾いています。
This piano (August Forster) is ancient. 何時に弾いたのか覚えていませんがずいぶん鳥の声が聞こえますね。
Fumiko
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