Tan Dunn Essay

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Tan Dun This article by Joanna C. Lee was about Tan Dunn, a composer. Tan Dunn was born in 1957, in Si Mao village in Huang province. When Joanna interviewed him he was spending time with his family, in their New York House; his family consists of his wife (Jane Huang), and his two sons Ian and Sean. Tan Dunn leads the life of a global citizen with a busy conducting schedule. Dunn’s journey started in fall of 1986, when he first came to America and landed in New York City. He had graduated where he got the praise and criticism he needed during China’s political campaigns. Since he had already graduated from Beihing’s Central Conservatory of Music, we he came here, he head to Columbia University to get his Doctorate Degree. Although he was uptown, he found his way to around and started getting connections with downtown artist. One of the many was a composer named John Cage, who Tan became good friends with and inspired him. He was influenced to bring back the memories of the sounds in his childhood, like water and stones. He was able to blend cultures to create an unusual but unique within the great possibilities of interpretation. Tan Dunn states “My creative formula is ‘one plus one equals ones’”, when he was questioned about the philosophy on combining words and music; he believes they should be melded into an indivisible unity. Tan Dun was a big fan of Metropolitan Operas, and when Met commission were first announced in 1997, for about nine years we attended majority of the productions at the Met, and we can’t forget about the number of rehearsal he went to. According to him they were informative and insightful; Joanna recalls him telling her, “I love romantic opera, because like is Drama.” Going to the productions at the Met sure did help shape his artistic view of things. Tan says, “I pretty much wanted to break up with tradition then. The further you were

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