Asian Composers Reflect on Careers in Western Classical Music: An Interview with Tan Dun, Dean of the Bard Conservatory
“[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.”
Post Date: 07-25-2021
Post Date: 07-25-2021