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Crouching composer, hidden dragon
My post describing how classical music has many Buddhist tendencies continues to reach a gratifyingly wide audience. So it is now time to confront the elephant in the shrine room - Tan Dun's Buddha Passion. Tan Dun is best-known for his soundtrack for Ang Lee's movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was recorded at the Shanghai Radio, Film And TV Bureau Technical Center in 1999. Born in 1957 in the central Chinese district of Hunan, the son of a military officer in the People's Liberation Army, and he studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 1986 Tan Dun moved to New York City but retained strong links with China: his Symphony 1997 was commissioned for the reunification of Hong Kong with China.The Buddha Passion was inspired by Tan Dun's visit to the ancient Mogao Caves in north-west China. This UNESCO Heritage Site is the largest, oldest , and most […]
2023-10-30 23:35:14
Do you believe in ghosts? Not the Halloween kind of ghosts—but spirits of the past…and maybe, spirits of the future, too. This Saturday on Second Inversion: Ghost Opera. The Chinese composer Tan Dun takes us back in time, to the shamanistic …
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