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  • Raka Dun's new CD, "Afro Latino," will hit stores in early 2012.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Raka Dun's new CD, "Afro Latino," will hit stores in early 2012.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Chancletas Y Camisetas Bordada, and are pretty thrilled about Raka Dun's upcoming EP solo release, AfroLatino.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • I looked to Tan Dun's operas, especially his smaller ones like Ghost Opera.

    Lesley Dill: Opera Chicks: Artists E.V. Day and Lesley Dill Interview Each Other About Opera Lesley Dill 2011

  • I looked to Tan Dun's operas, especially his smaller ones like Ghost Opera.

    Lesley Dill: Opera Chicks: Artists E.V. Day and Lesley Dill Interview Each Other About Opera Lesley Dill 2011

  • La mer and Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony, conducted by Kent Nagano, formed agreeably played bookends to Tan Dun's acrobatic and splashy Water Concerto which is exactly as its name suggests: three percussionists, led by the extraordinarily agile Wang Beibei, conjured amplified drips, drops and trickles from transparent bowls of water, while the orchestra acted as a conduit for more conventional east-west sounds.

    Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review 2011

  • Others have been fatally tempted into grandiosity by the scale of the Met: Tan Dun's commission, "The First Emperor" (2006), was an overblown Italian opera with a little Chinese flavor.

    The Hun Wears Prada Heidi Waleson 2010

  • The Hatto scandal may have stumbled to a premature close (Geoff Edgers has a nice summary in today's Globe), but the thievery bug seems to be spreading: according to a report in the El Paso Times, someone absconded with percussionist David Cossin's notes after a performance of Tan Dun's Concerto for Water Percussion with the El Paso Symphony on Saturday.

    Music would play and Felina would whirl Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The Hatto scandal may have stumbled to a premature close (Geoff Edgers has a nice summary in today's Globe), but the thievery bug seems to be spreading: according to a report in the El Paso Times, someone absconded with percussionist David Cossin's notes after a performance of Tan Dun's Concerto for Water Percussion with the El Paso Symphony on Saturday.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I didn't love "The First Emperor," Chinese composer Tan Dun's 2006 world premiere, but it made me feel cutting edge to have seen it.

    The Best Seat in the House 2008

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