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Tea : based on Tea-opera
- Title
- Tea : based on Tea-opera / Allegri Film, Avro, & NPS present ; a film by Frank Scheffer ; composed by Tan Dun. De oogst van de stilte = Broken silence / Scarabee Films presents ; een film van Eline Flipse.
- Publication
- [Paris, France] : Idéale Audience International, [2007], ℗2007.
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Film 1 : Tea recounts how chinese composer Tan Dun wrote the opera Tea, a tragic love story set against the background of the Japanese tea ceremony. He combines eastern and western composition techniques with musical ideas to create a unique sounding fusion between two great musical traditions. The Tea opera is the door to this journey into the mystical world of Chado, the Way of Tea. A world in which the ultimate objective is, as Tan Dun himself staes, 'to hear colour and see sound'. Beautifully crafted by Frank Scheffer, Tea includes interviews of Tan Dun, librettist Xu Ying and director Pierre Audi, as well as performances with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Dutch Chamber Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun. Film 2 : Broken silence draws the portraits of five Chinese composers widely regarded as the founders of Chinese contemporary music : Tan Dun, Chen Qigang, Guo Wenjing, Mo Wuping, and Qu Xiaosong. Children of Mao's cultural revolution, a troubled time when classical music was forbidden in China, they grew up listening to local folk songs and the Communist Party's revolutionary operas. When China opened in 1978, Tan Dun and his fellow students discovered Beethoven, their life would be forever changed.
- Series Statement
- Juxtapositions ; 10
- Uniform Title
- Juxtapositions ; 10.
- Alternative Title
- Oogst van de stilte
- Broken silence
- Tan Dun
- Broken silence.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Documentary films.
- Note
- Program notes in English, including excerpts from the Tea opera libretto (15 p.) inserted in container.
- Event (note)
- Film 1 produced 2005 ; film 2 produced 1995.
- System Details (note)
- DVD 9; all regions (region 0); NTSC; 4:3 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital 5.1, LPCM stereo.
- Language (note)
- 1st work in Chinese and English. 2nd work in Dutch and Chinese. Both works have English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese soundtracks; English subtitles.
- Contents
- Tea. Drinking tea ; Thinking about tea ; Singing about tea ; Playing the 'monkey king' ; Talking about tea ; Composing Tea-opera ; Experiencing tea ; Reading the book of tea ; Living with tea ; Loving tea ; Believing in tea ; Fighting over tea ; Contemplating tea.
- Broken silence. Introduction ; Introduction by Ed Spanjaard ; Composers at the restaurant in Amsterdam ; Guo Wenjing : first rehearsal of his opera "Wolf cub village" ; A Chinese music academy : teacher Du Ming Xin ; Tan Dun's education ; Portrait of Mo Wu Ping by his wife Li Shuqin ; Chen Qigang's education ; Qu Xiao Song : rehearsal of his opera "Oedipus" ; Tan Dun at the countryside ; Guo Wenjing in the Sichuan region ; Tan Dun in a Buddhist temple ; Chen Qigang : rehearsal of "Poeme lyrique" ; Guo Wenjing : performance of "Wolf cub village" ; Tan Dun's concert ; Conclusion.
- LCCN
- 899132000329
- OCLC
- ocn183898987
- 183898987
- SCSB-9054288
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries