Virtuosos & Visions featuring Tan Dun's Ghost Opera

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Tan Dun
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Tan Dun is a Chinese composer known world-wide for his arrangements including the original score for the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

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For The World by Tan Dun
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Hear another song composed by Tan Dun, this one for the film Hero (not the one with Dustin Hoffman and Gena Davis).

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Filmed in The Toby
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The Toby is the Indianapolis Museum of Art's theater which hosts many talks, performances, and films. The International Violin Competition and the Ghost Opera were the opening events when it re-opened in 2008. See upcoming talks, performances, and films at the IMA website.

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Instruments on Paper
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I don't know why, but I found this hypnotic.

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Pipa - Chinese Lute
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The pipa has 30 frets and has appeared in texts dating back to the 2nd Century B.C. Fine out more here.

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List of Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments
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From plucked to bowed to struck and drummed, this is a list of many different kinds of Chinese instruments.

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Filming In Low Light
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The reason you can't see the Violinist right now is because he was in the dark. I guess we should have checked out this Vimeo vid before filming.

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Finger Picks
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The only way to keep up that kind of speed in picking.

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Blue
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All you ever wanted to know about the blues.

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Hear Jimmy Talk About Ghost Opera
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From a promotional trailer for this performance.

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Kind of Reminiscent of the iPod Commercials
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Maybe just me.

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Waiting to Exhale
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I'll watch ANY movie Donald Faison is in.

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Red
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Connotations and descriptions of red.

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Into Great Silence
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A beautiful documentary on a group of monks in the Alps who live in the silence of daily prayer and meditation. It is stunning.

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Online Violin Tuner
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Standard GDAE format.

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Vibrato
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Vibrato is useful in creating rich tones by pulsating around the pitch.

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Pipa Solo
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From the YouTube description: "Red River" (Honghe Yejin), composed by Zheng Qingrong in the 1980s based on a folk melody of Yi people in Yunnan Province, China. This is a concert live recording during a tour in Frnace in 2005."

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Green
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More Wikipedia goodness on colors. Including symbolism, green in religion and nature, and more...all you wanted to know about green is here.

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Wonder What a Piece of Tan Dun's Sheet Music Looks Like?
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Go to the bottom of the page (the rest is an interesting bio on Tan Dun).

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Sounds Like Brushing Your Teeth to Me
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It's always good to BRUSH up your skills (see what I did there?). So here is a video on how to maintain healthy teeth.

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Types of Chords
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Either consonance (harmonic and stable) or dissonance (harsh and unstable) chords can be used for very dramatic or emotive purposes. Guess which kind of chords they are using here.

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Shakespeare's The Tempest
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"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve"

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Tremolo
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The rapid repetition of a single note. Sometimes indicates something important or shocking is about to happen...

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The Gong Show
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How to describe the Gong Show?

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More from The Tempest
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"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." and it finishes with: "We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. ..."

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Standing Ovation
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According to Wikipedia: "This is done on special occasions by an audience to show their approval and is done after extraordinary performances of particularly high acclaim." I agree.

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International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
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Special thanks to the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and Glen Kwok of the IVCI for their work in getting the Ghost Opera to Indy. Check out their site and future performances.

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"Ghost Opera," is a five-movement work for string quartet and pipa with special sound effects made by water, metal, stones, and paper. Composed by the boundary-breaking composer Tan Dun, "Ghost Opera" combines European traditions with Chinese shadow puppet theater, visual art, folk music, and East Asian shamanic ritual. This performance appeared at The Toby, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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