Other Minds Festivals ➔ Don Byron & Tan Dun, half length portrait, seated, at conference table, Woodside CA, (1995)
Still image
Origin
John FagoIdentifier
IM.OM.FP.0002.007Dates
1995-03-01/1995-03-31 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Composer & Performer PortraitsImage Series
OM02: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Don Byron & Tan Dun (l to r), seated at a table during their retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program prior to the appearance at the 2nd Other Minds Music Festival in March and April of 1995. Byron originally studied classical clarinet, before becoming interested in neighborhood salsa bands in high school and arranging and playing Latin music. During his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, he took a strong turn toward jazz, and in 1980, while still an undergraduate, Byron embraced klezmer (the clarinet-led Jewish street music of Eastern Europe) and began playing in the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Tan Dun unites Chinese shamanistic traditions with the western avant-garde, reaching audiences throughout the world. Tan Dun was born in 1957 in Si Mao village in central Hunan, China and spent his early childhood with his grandmother, growing up amidst the ancient culture of a rural Chinese village. After planting rice for two years during the Cultural Revolution, and then working as a fiddle player and arranger for a provincial Beijing Opera troupe, Tan was selected for the Central Conservatory of Beijing where he spent eight years. He came to New York City in 1986 to take up a fellowship at Columbia University, and completed the doctoral program in composition.Genres & Subjects
Group portraits--1990-2000Men
Composers
Musicians
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John Fago Other MindsPhoto Credits
John FagoRelated Event
Other Minds Festival 2Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnByron, Don
Tan, Dun, 1957-
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Other Minds Festival