Bad Boy for Two Guitars

Composer: TAKEMITSU, Tōru
  • Takemitsu’s Furyō shōnen (Bad Boy), was composed in 1961, and arranged for two guitars by 1963.1
  • Japanese guitarist Norio Sato created this arrangement at Takemitsu’s request.2
  • This work premiered on October 1, 1992 in Tokyo at the First International Guitar Festival, performed by Shin-ichi Fukuda and Norio Sato.3
  • The music is adapted from Takemitsu’s score to Furyō shōnen (The Bad Boys), a 1961 film directed by Susumu Hani.4

Sources

  1. Yoko Narazaki and Masakata Kanazawa, “Takemitsu, Tōru,” Grove Music Online (20010, accessed May 20, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000027403.
  2. Tōru Takemitsu, Bad Boy for Two Guitars (Japan: Schott Japan, 2005). 
  3. “Bad Boy,” Schott, accessed May 20, 2022, https://en.schott-music.com/shop/bad-boy-no91166.html.
  4. Narazaki and Kanazawa, “Takemitsu, Tōru,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

24382