Tan Dun: The city of Xi’an gives us a song of the earth-West China Net (Shaanxi News Net)

Tan Dun accepted an interview.

Western Network News (Reporter Song Yang Liu Wang) The 20th Xi’an International Music Festival opened on December 4. The well-known composer and conductor Tan Dun and the XSO Xi’an Symphony Orchestra performed the “Organic Music Trilogy” as the current Xi’an International Music Festival. The opening performance of the festival. Before the performance, Tan Dun accepted an exclusive interview with the client of Western Net·Shaanxi Toutiao.

The third work “Yao Le” in the “Organic Music Trilogy” performed this time has a long history of fate with Shaanxi. Tan Dun said: “On the stage of the 20th Xi’an International Music Festival, we will once again play “Yao Le: The Voice of the Earth” to pay tribute to Mahler’s “Song of the Earth.” Musical instruments made from the soil of Shaanxi to express love.”

It is understood that the representative musical instruments in “Yao Le” used soil from Shaanxi, Taiwan and Hong Kong as raw materials, and some ceramic musical instruments were purchased by Tan Dun on the Xi’an market. It demonstrates the Chinese thought of “great sound and invisible elephant”, making all the material of nature entertainable.

Editor: Liu Wang