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Tan Dun's Eight Memories In Watercolor: Insights Into Performance, Zhen Zeng
Tan Dun's Eight Memories In Watercolor: Insights Into Performance, Zhen Zeng
Theses : Honours
"Shostakovich, as· a composer also living under a dictatorship, taught me to express deep humanity. From Takemitsu, I learned that Western and Eastern instruments can be part of the same color palette. John Cage led me to discover structures and sounds as yet unknown, by always keeping an open mind. I owe deepest thanks to these three composers, whose contributions to music have also helped me develop myself---as a composer from a·. traditional culture, growing up in a high-pressure society, living in a now international world." (Tan Dun) The global reach of Tan Dun's music reached its zenith recently at …