Photo: Tan Dun, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer, was part of the first generation of Chinese students to work in Western classical music after the Cultural Revolution. Photo: Li Qiang for the New York Times
“[T]here has been progress for us,” Bard Conservatory Dean Tan Dun tells the
New York Times. “I am the first Eastern composer to be the dean of a Western conservatory, at Bard. That’s like a Chinese chef becoming the chef of an Italian restaurant. That’s the future: a different way of approaching color, boundary-less, a unity of the soul.”
