Why Choose Come Spring

Haru Yo Koi or Come Spring is a wonderful melody to play and again can be used as a vocalisation. This wasn’t chosen for any particular educational purposes but because it is a gorgeous addition to flute repertoire and captures a wonderful opportunity for dynamics and colour especially around the middle register C, DFlat and EFlat, as well as fun to play.

Background

Yumi Matsutoya

Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷 由実, Matsutōya Yumi, born January 19, 1954, nicknamed Yuming (ユーミン, Yūmin), is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. Generally the writer of both the lyrics and the music in her songs, she is renowned for her idiosyncratic voice and live performances, and is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Japanese Popular Music.
Her recording career has been commercially successful with more than 42 million records sold. In 1990, her album The Gates of Heaven became the first album to be certified “2x million” .She has had twenty-one No. 1 albums listed on the Oricon charts.She is the only artist to have at least one number-one album every year on the Oricon charts for 18 consecutive years.
After gaining several years of experience as a session musician, she debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1972. During her early career, she worked under her birth name Yumi Arai (荒井 由実, Arai Yumi). In 1975. She also gained popularity as a vocalist in the same year through the success of “Ano Hi ni Kaeritai”, which became her first number-one hit .Other famous songs include “Haru-yo, Koi” and “Sweet, Bitter Sweet”.
In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture, it is written that Yumi incorporated influences from progressive rock and European pop to produce a sophisticated, upper-middle-class female Japanese voice and sound in a contemporary musical and journalistic world dominated by discussions of folk music and social critique.
After marrying her musical collaborator Masataka Matsutoya in 1976, Arai began recording under her married name and has continued to do so. Throughout the 1980s, Matsutoya’s music was prominently featured in advertisements for Mitsubishi Motors in her native Japan and her image was used to promote their vehicles. In addition to multiple hit singles, she has obtained enormous commercial success on the Japanese Albums Chart, particularly during the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.

Yumi Matsutoya Complete Works.