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Tea

Tan Dun composer | John Snijders piano
Dutch Chamber Orchestra

Inspired by the Tea Ceremony, Tan Dun, the contemporary Chinese composer living in New York, wrote the opera “Tea”. Tea is a tragic love-story set against the background of Chanoyu, the Japanese tea ritual. In “Tea”, Tan Dun combines Eastern and Western composition techniques and musical ideas to create a unique sounding fusion between two great musical traditions. John Cage once said of Tan Dun, "His music is one we need as East and West come together as one home. "The opera is the door to this journey into the mystical world of Chado, the Way of Tea. A world in which the ultimate objective is, as Tan Dun himself states, “to hear colour and see sound”.

Repertoire

Dun: Tea - Opera; Cage: Sonates

Facts

Prog. No.
7758
Music genre
Documentary
Length
96 mins
Lenght short
57
Director
Frank Scheffer
Producers
Allegri Film
Production year
2005
Format
SD