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Classical music meets the martial arts.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: David Patrick Stearns
With its wide-screen battle scenes, balletically choreographed martial arts, and long stretches of dialogue-free visuals, the new Zhang Yimou film, "Hero," requires high-caliber music that captures the film's ancient Chinese milieu and shrewdly fulfills the singular needs of a film that's out to blur genres.
In other words, this is an assignment for Tan Dun, one of the foremost Chinese-born composers and a widely heard contemporary figure. And whenever a so-called classical composer enters a medium as popular as film, you tend to ask why and how the two work together.
A less-engaged composer might have fashioned a ...
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