MUSIC FROM JAPAN WORKS INFORMATION

Composer Name: Makoto Moroi

Composition Name: Contradiction III, Landscape with Cloud(s)

Composition Date:                       1987 
Configuration:                         Small Ensemble
Featured Instrument:                   Sho
Japanese Instrument(s):                Y
Length:                                N/A
Players:                               FLEX
Version (Original/Revised):            O
MFJ Presented:                         Y

World Premiere Venue:                  The Asia Society
World Premiere City:                   New York
World Premiere Sponsor:                Music From Japan
World Premiere Date:                   2/21/87
World Premiere Performers:             Miyata, MFJ Chamber Ensemble
Article/Review:                        R

Publication:                           The New York Times
Title:                                 Miyata Plays the Sho
Author/Critic:                         Tim Page
Publication Date:                      2/23/87
Reaction:                              Negative
Synopsis:                              "...dull exercise in textbook Modernism..."
Origin (American/Japanese):            A