Tuning in to Beijing's charms
China DailyConductor and composer Tan Dun takes the baton at a rehearsal with 17-year-old violinist Susan Tang and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on Saturday afternoon. Tan Dun, then a teenager living in the countryside of Hunan province, heard broadcasts of these historic concerts — his first time listening to any orchestra — which changed his life. In 1977, Tan's dream of learning classical music was fulfilled when he left his hometown and came to Beijing to study composition and conducting at the Central Conservatory of Music. "It seemed like coming to a new world," recalls the 66-year-old, who won an Oscar for best original score, which he wrote for Ang Lee's movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 2000.
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