Akira Ifukube Essentials

Akira Ifukube Essentials

Best remembered for scoring Ishirō Honda’s iconic Godzilla films—as well as the mythical beast’s haunting roar—Akira Ifukube’s contribution to Japanese cinema is insurmountable. The Hokkaido-born maestro was also a respected composer of epic symphonies and reflective, instrumental pieces alike. Inspired by the dissonant heft of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which helped spark a life of music at the age of 14, Ifukube elegantly coupled Japanese history with the Western classical tradition.

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