The Leoš Janáček International Music Festival ( Mezinárodní hudební festival Leoše Janáčka ) is a classical music festival in and around the Czech city of Ostrava .
63-546: The LJIMF was founded in 2018, and was the successor of the Janáček May International Music Festival ( Mezinárodní hudební festival Janáčkův máj , founded in 1976) and the Janáček Hukvaldy (originally Janáček Music Lachia, Janáčkovo hudební Lašsko , founded in 1948). The merger took place when Jaromír Javůrek became the director of both festivals. The festival takes places from the end of May until
126-494: A 100 km race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido, Japan . He discussed running and its effect on his creative life in a 2007 memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running . Murakami began to write fiction when he was 29. "Before that," he said, "I didn't write anything. I was just one of those ordinary people. I was running a jazz club, and I didn't create anything at all." He was inspired to write his first novel, Hear
189-758: A 75-minute feature. The film played at various film festivals and was released in New York and Los Angeles on July 29, 2005. The original short story, translated into English by Jay Rubin , is available in the April 15, 2002 issue of The New Yorker , as a stand-alone book published by Cloverfield Press, and part of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Knopf . In 1998, the German film The Polar Bear ( German : Der Eisbär ), written and directed by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short story " The Second Bakery Attack " in three intersecting story lines. "The Second Bakery Attack"
252-702: A Vocation in Japan, featuring insights and commentaries on Murakami's life and career. The essay collection was later translated into English by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen and released by Alfred A. Knopf on November 8, 2022. Killing Commendatore ( Kishidanchō-goroshi ) was published in Japan on February 24, 2017, and in the US in October 2018. The novel is about an unnamed portrait painter who stumbles upon an unknown painting, titled Killing Commendatore , after assuming residence in its creator's former abode. Since its publication,
315-636: A dry well. At an October 2013 symposium held at the University of Hawaii , associate professor of Japanese Nobuko Ochner opined "there were many descriptions of traveling in a parallel world as well as characters who have some connection to shamanism" in Murakami's works. In an October 2022 article for The Atlantic , Murakami clarified that nearly none of the characters in his work has been created based on individuals in real life, as many people alleged. He wrote: "I almost never decide in advance that I’ll present
378-492: A man goes on a blind date with a woman named Kaho and ends it with an insult, which is also the first line of the story. Most of Haruki Murakami's works use first-person narrative in the tradition of the Japanese I-novel . He states that because family plays a significant role in traditional Japanese literature, any main character who is independent becomes a man who values freedom and solitude over intimacy. Also notable
441-483: A particular type of character. As I write, a kind of axis forms that makes possible the appearance of certain characters, and I go ahead and fit one detail after another into place, like iron scraps attaching to a magnet. And in this way an overall picture of a person materializes. Afterward I often think that certain details resemble those of a real person, but most of the process happens automatically. I think I almost unconsciously pull information and various fragments from
504-637: A possible recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature . Nonetheless, since all nomination records are sealed for 50 years from the awarding of the prize, it is pure speculation. When asked about the possibility of being awarded the Nobel Prize, Murakami responded with a laugh saying "No, I don't want prizes. That means you're finished." In October 2014, he was awarded the Welt -Literaturpreis . In April 2015, Murakami
567-508: A record store. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened a coffee house and jazz bar , Peter Cat, in Kokubunji, Tokyo , which he ran with his wife, from 1974 to 1981. The couple decided not to have children . Murakami is an experienced marathon runner and triathlon enthusiast, though he did not start running until he was 33 years old, after he began as a way to stay healthy. On June 23, 1996, he completed his first ultramarathon ,
630-459: A series intended for Japanese students of English. Murakami considers his first two novels to be "immature" and "flimsy", and has not been eager to have them translated into English. A Wild Sheep Chase , he says, was "the first book where I could feel a kind of sensation, the joy of telling a story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keep writing." In 1985, Murakami wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and
693-477: A story by Murakami himself. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running , a memoir about his experience as a marathon runner and a triathlete, was published in Japan in 2007, with English translations released in the UK and the US in 2008. The title is a play on that of Raymond Carver 's short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love . In 2004, Murakami was interviewed by John Wray (novelist) for
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#1733085120274756-475: A theatrical version of Kafka on the Shore , which first ran at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company from September to November. On Max Richter 's 2006 album Songs from Before , Robert Wyatt reads passages from Murakami's novels. In 2007, Robert Logevall adapted "All God's Children Can Dance" into a film, with a soundtrack composed by American jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9 . In 2008, Tom Flint adapted "On Seeing
819-840: A two-hour multimedia stage presentation. The show opened January 12, 2010, as part of the Public Theater's " Under the Radar " festival at the Ohio Theater in New York City, presented in association with The Asia Society and the Baryshnikov Arts Center . The show had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 21, 2011. The presentation incorporates live actors, video projection, traditional Japanese puppetry , and immersive soundscapes to render
882-449: A wide range of works by European and American writers, such as Franz Kafka , Gustave Flaubert , Charles Dickens , Kurt Vonnegut , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Richard Brautigan and Jack Kerouac . These Western influences distinguish Murakami from the majority of other Japanese writers. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met Yoko, now his wife. His first job was at
945-453: A work of that length, winning first prize. Murakami's initial success with Hear the Wind Sing encouraged him to continue writing. A year later, he published a sequel, Pinball, 1973 . In 1981, he co-wrote a short story collection, Yume de Aimashou with author and future Earthbound/Mother creator Shigesato Itoi . In 1982, he published A Wild Sheep Chase , a critical success. Hear
1008-483: Is 1,200-pages long and is set in a "soul-stirring, 100% pure Murakami world" that involves "a story that had long been sealed". In promoting his latest book, Murakami stated that he believed that the pandemic and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine have created walls that divide people, fueling fear and skepticism instead of mutual trust. In July 2024, the New Yorker published Murakami's short story Kaho , in which
1071-481: Is Murakami's unique humor, as seen in his 2000 short story collection, After the Quake . In the story "Superfrog Saves Tokyo", the protagonist is confronted with a 6-foot tall frog that talks about the destruction of Tokyo over a cup of tea. In spite of the story's sober tone, Murakami feels the reader should be entertained once the seriousness of a subject has been broached. Another notable feature of Murakami's stories are
1134-700: Is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers , the World Fantasy Award , the Tanizaki Prize , Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award ,
1197-530: Is a late work for large orchestra (of which 25 are brass players) by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček . It is dedicated "To the Czechoslovak Army " and Janáček said it was intended to express "contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory". It started by Janáček listening to a brass band, becoming inspired to write some fanfares of his own. When
1260-561: Is often thought it was titled after the Beach Boys ' 1964 tune ), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles ' song ) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (after the song " South of the Border "). Some analyses see aspects of shamanism in his writing. In a 2000 article, Susan Fisher connected Shinto or Japanese shamanism with some elements of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , such as a descent into
1323-839: The Noma Literary Prize , the Franz Kafka Prize , the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize , and the Princess of Asturias Awards . Growing up in Ashiya , near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University , he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include
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#17330851202741386-559: The Tokyo subway sarin attack , and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner . His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon ,
1449-554: The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" into a short film. The film was screened at the 2008 CON-CAN Movie Festival . The film was viewed, voted, and commented upon as part of the audience award for the movie festival. It was announced in July 2008 that French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung would direct an adaptation of Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood . The film was released in Japan on December 11, 2010. In 2010, Stephen Earnhart adapted The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle into
1512-408: The 182nd installment of The Paris Review 's "The Art of Fiction" interview series. Recorded over the course of two afternoons, the interview addressed the change in tone and style of his more recent works at the time—such as After the Quake —his myriad of Western influences ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to John Irving , and his collaborative process with the many translators he has worked with over
1575-516: The 1980s as well as some of Murakami's more recent short stories, including all five that appear in Tōkyō Kitanshū . In 2002, Murakami published the anthology Birthday Stories , which collects short stories on the theme of birthdays. It includes work by Russell Banks , Ethan Canin , Raymond Carver , David Foster Wallace , Denis Johnson , Claire Keegan , Andrea Lee , Daniel Lyons , Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux , and William Trevor , as well as
1638-556: The 2007 Kiriyama Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman , but according to the prize's official website, Murakami "declined to accept the award for reasons of personal principle". In 2006, Murakami became the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize . In January 2009, Murakami received the Jerusalem Prize , a biennial literary award given to writers whose work deals with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. There were protests in Japan and elsewhere against his attending
1701-454: The Border, West of the Sun , 2000; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , 2000s), encouraged by Murakami himself. Both were later re-translated from Japanese. Sputnik Sweetheart was first published in 1999, followed by Kafka on the Shore in 2002, with the English translation following in 2005. Kafka on the Shore won the World Fantasy Award in 2006. The English version of his novel After Dark
1764-463: The China–Japan political territorial dispute, characterizing the overwrought nationalistic response as "cheap liquor" which politicians were giving to the public. In April 2013, he published his novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage . It became an international bestseller but received mixed reviews. In 2015, Switch Publishing published Murakami's essay collection Novelist as
1827-621: The End of the World , a dream-like fantasy that took the magical elements of his work to a new extreme. Murakami achieved a major breakthrough and national recognition in 1987 with the publication of Norwegian Wood , a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. It sold millions of copies among young Japanese. Norwegian Wood propelled the barely known Murakami into the spotlight. He was mobbed at airports and other public places, leading to his departure from Japan in 1986. Murakami traveled through Europe, lived in
1890-522: The February award ceremony in Israel , including threats to boycott his work as a response against Israel 's recent bombing of Gaza . Murakami chose to attend the ceremony, but gave a speech to the gathered Israeli dignitaries harshly criticizing Israeli policies. Murakami said, "Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us." The same year he
1953-499: The Haruki Murakami Library, opened on October 1, 2021. In addition to its vast collection of written material, the library also hosts a coffee shop run by Waseda University students—called Orange Cat, after Murakami's Peter Cat jazz bar from his twenties—in addition to a listening lounge where visitors can listen to records collected by Murakami himself. Murakami's first novel, Hear the Wind Sing ( Kaze no uta o kike ),
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2016-431: The Japanese people have experienced ... however, this time it was not a bomb being dropped upon us, but a mistake committed by our very own hands". According to Murakami, the Japanese people should have rejected nuclear power after having "learned through the sacrifice of the hibakusha just how badly radiation leaves scars on the world and human wellbeing". In recent years, Haruki Murakami has often been mentioned as
2079-677: The United States and currently resides in Oiso, Kanagawa , with an office in Tokyo. Murakami was a writing fellow at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey , Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts , and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts . During this time he wrote South of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle . The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) fuses
2142-772: The United States in the 1990s. He called The Wind-up Bird Chronicle a turning point in his career, marking this change in focus. English translations of many of his short stories written between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in The Elephant Vanishes . Murakami has also translated many works of F. Scott Fitzgerald , Raymond Carver , Truman Capote , John Irving , and Paul Theroux , among others, into Japanese. Murakami took an active role in translation of his work into English, encouraging "adaptations" of his texts to American reality rather than direct translation. Some of his works that appeared in German turned out to be translations from English rather than Japanese ( South of
2205-418: The Wind Sing (1979), while watching a baseball game. He described the moment he realized he could write as a "warm sensation" he could still feel in his heart. He went home and began writing that night. Murakami worked on Hear the Wind Sing for ten months in very brief stretches, during nights, after working days at the bar. He completed the novel and sent it to the only literary contest that would accept
2268-567: The Wind Sing , Pinball, 1973 , and A Wild Sheep Chase form the Trilogy of the Rat (a sequel, Dance, Dance, Dance , was written later but is not considered part of the series), centered on the same unnamed narrator and his friend, "the Rat". The first two novels were not widely available in English translation outside Japan until 2015, although an English edition, translated by Alfred Birnbaum with extensive notes, had been published by Kodansha as part of
2331-596: The aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack . He came to terms with these events with his first work of non-fiction, Underground , and the short story collection after the quake . Underground consists largely of interviews of victims of the gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system. In 1996, in a conversation with the psychologist Hayao Kawai, Murakami explained that he changed his position from one of "detachment" to one of "commitment" after staying in
2394-563: The archives of Haruki Murakami, including his manuscripts, source documents, and music collection. Later in September 2021, architect Kengo Kuma announced the opening of a library dedicated entirely to Murakami's works at Waseda University , which would include more than 3,000 works by Murakami, including translations into more than 50 other languages. The library, officially known as the Waseda International House of Literature or
2457-404: The beginning of July. It is opened with a performance of Janáček's Sinfonietta . This Czech Republic -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This music festival-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sinfonietta (Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek) The Sinfonietta (subtitled "Military Sinfonietta" or "Sokol Festival") from 1926
2520-458: The cabinets in my brain and then weave them together." Murakami named this process "the Automatic Dwarfs." He continued: "One of the things I most enjoy about writing novels is the sense that I can become anybody I want to be," noting that "Characters who are—in a literary sense—alive will eventually break free of the writer’s control and begin to act independently." Murakami was also awarded
2583-484: The comments that come from the main characters as to how strange the story presents itself. Murakami explains that his characters experience what he experiences as he writes, which could be compared to a movie set where the walls and props are all fake. He has further compared the process of writing to movies: "That is one of the joys of writing fiction—I'm making my own film made just for myself." Many of his novels have themes and titles that evoke classical music, such as
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2646-637: The course of his career. Shinchosha Publishing published Murakami's novel 1Q84 in Japan on May 29, 2009. 1Q84 is pronounced "ichi kyū hachi yon", the same as 1984 , as 9 is also pronounced "kyū" in Japanese . The book was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. However, after the 2012 anti-Japanese demonstrations in China, Murakami's books were removed from sale there, along with those of other Japanese authors. Murakami criticized
2709-499: The editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre. Murakami was born in Kyoto , Japan, during the post-World War II baby boom and was raised in Nishinomiya , Ashiya and Kobe . He is an only child. His father was
2772-508: The following orchestra with expanded brass section: *) The nine C trumpets, bass trumpets, tenor tubas and the timpani are heard only in the first and last movements. The work was transcribed for wind ensemble by Don Patterson in 1994 and by Merlin Patterson 1996, the latter being recorded by the University of Houston Wind Ensemble, conducted by Eddie Green, the following year. This work
2835-547: The novel has caused controversy in Hong Kong and was labeled under "Class II – indecent" in Hong Kong. This classification led to mass amounts of censorship . The publisher must not distribute the book to people under the age of 18, and must have a warning label printed on the cover. Murakami's most recent novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls was published by Shinchosha in Japan on April 13, 2023. His first novel in six years, it
2898-866: The novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun 's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction , fantasy , and crime fiction , and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler , Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro , Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of
2961-408: The opening motif . It features several variants based on Janáček's original fanfare . The piece is in five movements, all of which have descriptive subtitles: The first movement is scored only for brass and percussion. The second movement begins with a rapid ostinato from the wind but later has a more lyrical episode. The third begins quietly in the strings but is interrupted by a stern figure in
3024-580: The organisers of the Sokol Gymnastic Festival approached him for a commission, he developed the material into the Sinfonietta . He later dropped the word military . The first performance was in Prague on 26 June 1926 under Václav Talich . The typical performance duration is 20–25 minutes. Sinfonietta is typical of Janáček's tight construction in that the material of each movement derives from
3087-609: The play was performed in Japanese, with supertitle translations for European and American audiences. Two stories from Murakami's book After The Quake – "Honey Pie" and "Superfrog Saves Tokyo" – have been adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati . Entitled after the quake , the play was first performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with La Jolla Playhouse , and opened on October 12, 2007, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre . In 2008, Galati also adapted and directed
3150-665: The realistic and fantastic and contains elements of physical violence. It is also more socially conscious than his previous work, dealing in part with the difficult topic of war crimes in Manchukuo ( Northeast China ). The novel won the Yomiuri Prize , awarded by one of Murakami's harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe , who himself won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. The processing of collective trauma soon became an important theme in Murakami's writing, which had previously been more personal in nature. Murakami returned to Japan in
3213-498: The son of a Buddhist priest, and his mother is the daughter of an Osaka merchant. Both taught Japanese literature . His father was involved in the Second Sino-Japanese War , and was deeply traumatized by it, which would, in turn, affect Murakami. Since childhood, Murakami, like Kōbō Abe , has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western as well as Russian music and literature. He grew up reading
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#17330851202743276-524: The surreal landscape of the original work. In 2013, pianist Eunbi Kim debuted a performance piece, titled "Murakami Music: Stories of Loss and Nostalgia", drawn from excerpts of Murakami's work as part of her artist residency at the Cell Theatre in New York City . Excerpts included Reiko's monologue from Norwegian Wood (novel) , as well as the self-titled song of Kafka on the Shore . The performance piece
3339-472: The theme tune for the UK Granada Television series Crown Court during the 1970s and 1980s, although it was never heard in full in any episode. It would be during this opening that the court reporter, Peter Wheeler, would, as a voice-over, either set the scene for the episode or else describe plot events that had occurred in previous episodes. The third movement, Moderato (The Queen's Monastery),
3402-468: The three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle : The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini 's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird ), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart 's opera The Magic Flute ). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells ' 1957 B-side song, although it
3465-441: The trombones, leading to another fast dance-like passage. In the fourth movement, Janáček celebrates the newly liberated Czechoslovakia with a joyous trumpet fanfare. The finale begins in the key of E ♭ minor with a calm retrograde version of the opening melody. However, this quickly moves into a triumphant finale, the return of the opening fanfare decorated with swirling figures in the strings and wind. The score calls for
3528-523: Was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Ōmori . The film was released in 1981 and distributed by Art Theatre Guild . Naoto Yamakawa directed two short films, Attack on the Bakery (released in 1982) and A Girl, She is 100 Percent (released in 1983), based on Murakami's short stories "Bakery Attack" and "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning", respectively. Japanese director Jun Ichikawa adapted Murakami's short story " Tony Takitani " into
3591-687: Was also adapted as a short film in 2010, directed by Carlos Cuarón , starring Kirsten Dunst and as part of a segment in the South Korean omnibus film Acoustic . Murakami's work was also adapted for the stage in a 2003 play entitled The Elephant Vanishes , co-produced by Britain's Complicite company and Japan's Setagaya Public Theatre. The production, directed by Simon McBurney , adapted three of Murakami's short stories and received acclaim for its unique blending of multimedia (video, music, and innovative sound design) with actor-driven physical theater (mime, dance, and even acrobatic wire work). On tour,
3654-459: Was also used by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer for their piece entitled "Knife-Edge" on their eponymous album . A rearrangement of the opening of the Sinfonietta was used by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer for their song "Knife-Edge" on their debut album . The opening of the fourth movement (usually no more than about 40 seconds of it) was used as
3717-587: Was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature. In 2024, Murakami received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . Murakami has received honorary degrees ( Doctor of Letters ) from the University of Liège (September 2007), Princeton University (June 2008), Tufts University (May 2014), Yale University (May 2016), and University of Nova Gorica (2021). In 2018, Waseda University in Tokyo agreed to house
3780-754: Was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain . In 2011, Murakami donated his €80,000 winnings from the International Catalunya Prize (from the Generalitat de Catalunya ) to the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to those affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster . Accepting the award, he said in his speech that the situation at the Fukushima plant was "the second major nuclear disaster that
3843-415: Was named one of the Time 100 most influential people. In November 2016, he was awarded the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award , an award previously won by British author J. K. Rowling . In 2018, he was nominated for the New Academy Prize in Literature . He requested that his nomination be withdrawn, saying he wanted to "concentrate on writing, away from media attention." In 2023, he
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#17330851202743906-432: Was released in May 2007. It was chosen by The New York Times as a "notable book of the year". In late 2005, Murakami published a collection of short stories titled Tōkyō Kitanshū , or 東京奇譚集, which translates loosely as "Mysteries of Tokyo". A collection of the English versions of twenty-four short stories, titled Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman , was published in August 2006. This collection includes both older works from
3969-515: Was the inspiration and soundtrack for the animated film The Queen's Monastery by Emma Calder. Haruki Murakami 's novel 1Q84 begins with the Sinfonietta playing on a taxi's radio. The work then appears several times later in the novel as a recurring theme connecting the two main characters. The popularity of the novel has led to an increase in sales of recordings of the Sinfonietta in Japan. Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami ( 村上 春樹 , Murakami Haruki , born January 12, 1949 )
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