• Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2-, 4-2-3-1, perc (3), pf doubling on celesta, harp, strings

• Duration: 11' 45"
• In 1 movement
• Composed in 2013
• First performance: 07.11.14 Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by R Casteels Kioi Hall, Tokyo Japan
• ISMN 979-0-9016519-6-8
• Parts: To rent the parts, please email <rc@robertcasteels.com>
• Downloadable scores for inspection:
  Kaze_Ni_Noru.pdf

Doddodo dodoodo, blow away the green chestnuts too, blow away the sour quinces too sings Matasaburu at the end of Miyazawa Kenji’s famous story entitled Kaze no Matasaburu. A child comes from a faraway town to a little schoolhouse in the mountains because of his father’s job posting. Because his facial features and dress are quite different from the other village children, the new comer looks like a foreigner to them. The children wonder if he could really be an impersonation of the wind. The multi-layered meanings of Miyazawa’s story resonated deeply inside me: we humans remain fragile against the unpredictable and destructive powers of nature, the individual and creative human being remains fragile against the power of institutionalized society. I endeavored to express these meanings in a metaphoric, mischievous, dense and fast symphonic poem based on no more than three musical ideas within a precise structural framework. The music surges out of nowhere, breezes, whirls, twists, howls, whistles, howls, rattles and vanishes in thin air: doh doh doh....aoi kurumi mo, fuki to ba se suppai karin mo fuki to ba se doh dohdo.... .