By Tomoko Deguchi This blog post is the first of multiple posts related to the opera Matsukaze (2010) by the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955). During the summer of 2019, Gavin Lee, Ya-hui Cheng, and I led an online seminar in which we explored the concepts of “tradition,” “form,” and “copy” reconceptualized in global … Continue reading The Appeal of the Foreign in Toshio Hosokawa’s Opera Matsukaze