Farewell to Stromness is a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue a sequence of cabaret-style numbers against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands. The Revue was first performed at the St Magnus Festival Orkney by Eleanor Bron with the composer at the piano in June 1980.This performance inspired Timothy Walker to transcribe Farewell to Stromness for solo Guitar. He performed it two days later in Kirkwall Cathedral as part of the same festival.

Hosokawa a écrit beaucoup de musique guitare ces dernières années. Il a dit que cette guitare est un instrument les plus préférés et intéressés pour lui. Cette pièce a été le travail obligatoire du Festival de guitare 2e tenue à Turku, Finlande les 8-12 novembre 2004. / Guitare

Howlin' Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood 6' 3' wore size 16 shoes had skin so dark it shined like silver and poured out his darkest sorrows in a voice that sounded like a rampaging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits Wolf's sound still terrifies and inspires. Born Chester Arthur Burnett in 1910 the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hard scrabble youth as asharecropper in Mississippi. He began his career playing and singing in perilous juke joints with the first Delta blues stars in the 1930s and 1940s. He was present at the birth of rock 'n' roll in Memphis and helped define the sound of electric blues in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. Heended his career performing and recording with the world's most famous rock stars in the 1970s. His passion for music kept him performing-despite devastating physical problems-until his death in 1976. This DVD shows Howlin' Wolf prowling on stage at the first Washington D.C. Blues Festival in November 1970 supported by his top-notch band. Hear him moan his earth-shaking blues and watch his unforgettable stage antics and you'll see why Sam Phillips who also discovered Elvis Presley Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis - called Howlin' Wolf his greatest discovery.