I was in attendance – in the fifth stinkin’ row – during this week’s world premiere of Tan Dun’s Piano Concerto.
I’m hardly a scholar of contemporary classical music, but I thought it was fan-frickin’-tastic. It was loud and raucous in parts and slow and lovely in others. It had a slight “east meets west” thing that is Tan Dun’s stock-in-trade. It was also a mere 30 minutes. That’s a good move.
The Times has nice things to say, as does France’s ConcertoNet. The NY Sun kinda does, too.
