Tan Dun | Acclaim
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Acclaim

Over the past half-dozen years, Tan Dun has become this planet’s local composer /conductor. Born in China, finished in New York and now in constant intercontinental motion, Tan has made it his project to flavor the musical traditions of East Asia and central Europe with each other’s ingredients, presenting the result with a theatrical flourish. – Newsday

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Critical Acclaim

“ [Tan Dun’s] language, a mix of Hollywood grandeur and primal, percussive vitality, was consistent throughout the evening, yet each segment had its own distinct sound.

- Sydney Morning Herald, 2013
“ [Tan Dun’s] music — which at one moment is as tonal as Beethoven and as melodic as Gershwin and the next delves into sounds that, before Cage, were considered mere noise — reveals a remarkable range of influences, from Chinese folk song to the Internet.

- UT San Diego, 2012
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Plenty of composers have written paeans to nature, but few have brought the natural world into contemporary music quite so enthusiastically as Tan Dun.

- The San Diego Union-Tribune, 2003
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Tan composes with a warm heart, questing mind and a knack for striking sonorities.

- Times Online, 2008
“ [Tan Dun] long ago broke through the limitations of any genre to fashion his own style.

- Toronto Star, 2009
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Everything he does is exciting and fresh, characteristically, he explores ways in which the primitive, the ritualistic and the natural can combine with a sophisticated Western orchestra and he does this to magical effect.

- Noteworthy RTHK Radio 4, 2004
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