Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
Studio album by Kronos Quartet and Wu Man
Released	14 March 1997
Recorded	January 1996
Genre	contemporary classical
Label	Nonesuch (#79445)
Producer	Judith Sherman
Kronos Quartet and Wu Man chronology

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera is an album by the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. The album contains five compositions by Chinese composer Tan Dun written in 1994^[1] for string quartet and pipa.^[2] As of 2011^[update], the composition was still on the Quartet's program.^[3]

Track list[edit]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Act I. Bach, Monks, and Shakespeare Meet in Water"	8:55
2.	"Act II. Earth Dance"	6:47
3.	"Act III. Dialogue with "Little Cabbage""	3:14
4.	"Act IV. Metal and Stone"	10:10
5.	"Act V. Song of Paper"	6:40

Personnel[edit]

Musicians[edit]

David Harrington – violin, water bowl, bowed gong, vocals, one-stringed lute, cymbals, stones
John Sherba – violin, paper whistle, vocals, cymbals, stones, one-stringed lute, bowed gong, waterbowl
Hank Dutt – viola, vocals, cymbals, stones, bowed gong, water bowl
Joan Jeanrenaud – cello, vocals, bowed gong, water bowl
Wu Man – pipa, soprano voice, vocals, bowed gong, tam-tam, Tibetan bells, paper

References[edit]

^ Winters, Ken (26 January 2011). "Tan Dun's Ghost Opera is fresh and hauntingly memorable – The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
^ Swed, Mark (29 June 1997). "A Sound as Magnetic as Hong Kong Itself; 'Symphony 1997' makes the colony's story universal by employing musical styles from around the world". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
^ McCallum, Peter (14 January 2011). "Kronos Quartet – Ghost Opera & A Chinese Home". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

External links[edit]

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

[1] Winters, Ken (26 January 2011). "Tan Dun's Ghost Opera is fresh and hauntingly memorable – The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

[2] Swed, Mark (29 June 1997). "A Sound as Magnetic as Hong Kong Itself; 'Symphony 1997' makes the colony's story universal by employing musical styles from around the world". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

[3] McCallum, Peter (14 January 2011). "Kronos Quartet – Ghost Opera & A Chinese Home". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

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David Harrington John Sherba Hank Dutt Paul Wiancko Joan Jeanrenaud
Studio albums	In Formation (1982) Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk (1985) Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain (1985) Music of Bill Evans (1986) Kronos Quartet (1986) Winter Was Hard (1988) Kronos Quartet Plays Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989) Black Angels (1990) Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet (1991) Kevin Volans: Hunting:Gathering (1991) Five Tango Sensations (1991) Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik" (1991) Pieces of Africa (1992) Short Stories (1993) Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1993) At the Grave of Richard Wagner (1993) Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1993) All the Rage (1993) Night Prayers (1994) Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (1997) Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (1997) Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets (1998) Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam (2001) Steve Reich: Triple Quartet (2001) Nuevo (2002) You've Stolen My Heart (2005) Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') (2007) Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós (2007) Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (2008) Floodplain (2009) Uniko (2011) Folk Songs (2017) Sun Rings (2019) Long Time Passing (2020)
Soundtracks	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Dracula (1999) Requiem for a Dream (2000) The Fountain (2006)
Related articles	Kronos Quartet discography Terry Riley

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