Monday, May 12, 2014, 7:00 PM
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012
Chinese music, chilling compositions for a Western orchestra, and stunning visual footage of rural China, giving American audiences a window into a world oceans away.
The NYU Symphony Orchestra will perform Tan Dun’s masterpiece, The Map in a one-night only concert performance with special guests – Grammy-nominated conductor Andrew Cyr and leading classical cellist Wendy Sutter. The field video recordings used in The Map capture passionate antiphonal singing, intriguing tongue singing, emphatic percussive dance and other images of ethnic musical life. The interaction of audio-video and live music connected generations and cultures across years and over continents. The evening will also feature Tan Dun’s Concerto for String Orchestra and Pipa featuring pipa virtuoso Zhou Yi.
For more information about the event, please visit:
http://nyuskirball.org/calendar/tandun