Tan Dun is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor.
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16 Facts About Tan Dun
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Tan Dun joined an ensemble of other commune residents and learned to play traditional Chinese string instruments.
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At Columbia, Tan Dun discovered the music of composers such as Philip Glass, John Cage, Meredith Monk, and Steve Reich, and began incorporating these influences into his compositions.
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Tan Dun completed his dissertation, Death and Fire: Dialogue with Paul Klee, in 1993.
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Tan Dun's second work in the genre, Marco Polo, set to a libretto by Paul Griffiths, is an opera within an opera.
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At this point in his career, Tan Dun had created many works for "organic instruments, " i e instruments constructed from materials such as paper, water, ceramic, and stone.
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Tan Dun earned more widespread attention after composing the score for Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which he won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a BAFTA Award.
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In 2002, Tan Dun continued experimenting with application of video in music The Map, for cello, video, and orchestra.
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Tan Dun's most recent multimedia work, Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women, is a 13-movement work for video, solo harp, and orchestra.
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Many of Tan Dun's works call for instruments made of materials such as paper, stone, or water, but the compositions that he classifies as "organic music" feature these instruments most prominently.
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Ceramic instruments include percussion instruments similar to those Tan Dun had used in previous works, as well as wind instruments and xun.
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Originally titled Secret Land, Tan Dun wrote a concerto for twelve solo cellos and orchestra called Four Secret Roads of Marco Polo .
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Tan Dun wrote a concerto for Lang Lang titled Piano Concerto: "The Fire", a commission by the New York Philharmonic.
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Tan Dun has conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony to record parts of the album Away from Xuan by fellow composer Chen Yuanlin.
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