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A series consisting of 5 parts (each on one CD) commissioned by a Japanese businessman who turned 82 years old in 2006. The series tells musically about his youth when he was studying and living in two cities—Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The five compositions had to be 54 minutes in length each. Parts one and two tell of spring and summer 1945, which the client spent living in Nagasaki, while he lived in Hiroshima in the autumn and winter of 1945, where he survived the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Spring and Summer describe the normal atmosphere in the city (of Nagasaki) with some of the rising premonitions of what will happen on August 9th, 1945 (when Nagasaki was bombed). Autumn and Winter in Hiroshima musically mirror what happened after August 6th, 1945 (when Hiroshima was bombed). The Fifth Season is supposed to be the "time after", the so-called "Endless Season".
