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    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      ReviewMusic
      Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion is a striking fusion of Chinese and western music

      The Royal Festival Hall performance won a standing ovation. Plus: Kinan Azmeh’s Clarinet Concerto

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      InterviewMusic
      Conductor Edward Gardner: ‘We are being asked to widen what we give audiences’

      The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director has put together an ambitious season of works about home

    • Friday, 6 May, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Benjamin, Lindberg, et al: Horizon 7 — review

      Top-of-the-class live performances and recordings from four composers who look out to different horizons

    • Monday, 16 November, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Tan Dun’s Water Passion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — ‘Chirpy-gurgly’

      The composer conducted his odd work with emotive precision — but the concert hall was problematic

    • Monday, 3 August, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangzhou, China — review

      Tan Dun’s ‘Farewell My Concubine’ proved a successful pairing of pianist and Peking opera performer

    • Monday, 13 July, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      National Youth Orchestra of the USA, Carnegie Hall, New York — review

      The staggeringly talented NYO, joined by Chinese pianist Yundi, played as if lives were at stake

    • Thursday, 23 May, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Marco Polo, Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway – review

      Magnificent musical performances and a visually seductive production cannot disguise Tan Dun’s opera’s flaws

    • Thursday, 25 October, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Composer Conversations and Dialogues, Beijing Music Festival

      This year’s Beijing Music Festival has set out to explore connections in composition across cultures

    • Wednesday, 3 October, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao, Asia Society, New York

      This is a hypnotic retrospective of the work of an artist who uses traditional crafts to create surrealistic meditations on femininity

    • Friday, 30 March, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Bell époque

      From Björk to the Olympics, bells are playing an increasingly strong role in the music of our time

    • Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
      Life & Arts
      Worldwide Chinese Festival Orchestra, NCPA, Beijing
    • Saturday, 25 April, 2009
      Life & Arts
      There’s been a change of key
    • Wednesday, 25 March, 2009
      Life & Arts
      Beyond the Wall, Barbican, London
    • Monday, 19 January, 2009
      Life & Arts
      China Philharmonic Orchestra, Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing
    • Wednesday, 12 November, 2008
      Life & Arts
      HK Chinese/Philharmonic Orchestras, Cultural Centre Concert Hall, Hong Kong
    • Tuesday, 11 November, 2008
      Life & Arts
      Fantasy of the Red Queen, Kwai Tsing Theatre, HK
    • Wednesday, 6 August, 2008
      Life & Arts
      Infused with Chinese flavour
    • Saturday, 9 February, 2008
      Life & Arts
      Race to the opening ceremony
    • Monday, 22 October, 2007
      Life & Arts
      Tan Dun/Organic Concert, Shanghai Grand Theatre
    • Thursday, 11 October, 2007
      Life & Arts
      Postmodernism in a poetic wrapping
    • Friday, 22 December, 2006
      Life & Arts
      The First Emperor, Metropolitan Opera, New York
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