Tan Dun dirige l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

STAGIONE SINFONICA 2007 / 2008

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01 DEC 6.00 pm / 03 DEC 9.00 pm / 04 DEC 7.30 pm

AUDITORIUM PARCO DELLA MUSICA – Sala SANTA CECILIA

National Premiere
There is no doubt that the research conducted by Tan Dun at the extreme end of sound and to merge diverse music cultures has earned him the respect of pundits and large public alike, as testified by the Grammy Award and the Oscar, the latter won for the music score of “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon“.
The concert that will see him with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra synthesizes the salient characteristics of this composer who was born in China’s Hunan Province, where as a child he came into contact with animism and the shamanistic culture of his village, before moving to the United States to finish his studies in a prestigious university.
In “Water Percussion Concerto” and “Paper Concerto“, music is made with water and paper, organic materials endowed with a spirit according to the animist tradition with which to construct new instruments to make totally new sounds. An “orchestral theatre” that, quoting Tan Dun, “oscillates and swims between diverse cultures and traditions”.
Music of outstanding impact, not incidentally accompanied by a dance by Manuel De Falla influenced by popular gypsy music, and by John Cage’s first piece written in 1942 for a choreography by Merce Cunningham, “Credo in US”, where we find the use of heterodox materials for the creation of music.

Tan Dun was born in Simao, China, in 1957, and now lives in New York. His musical career started at the Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution.
Among the many international awards he received, Tan Dun was nominated Musician of Year (1997) by the New York Times, and among the several acknowledgments for his recordings there is a Grammy Award (”Crouching tiger, hidden dragon”), the Academy Award 2003 for Best Japanese Recording (”Water Passion after St. Matthew”) and BBC’s Best Orchestral Album (”Death and Fire”).

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