Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (soundtrack)
Tan Dun composed the soundtrack for the Academy Award winning and Golden Globe Award winning 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The soundtrack won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. Tan Dun arranged portions of the movie-score into a concerto for cello and orchestra called the Crouching Tiger Concerto. Widely praised for its martial-arts sequences, story, and cinematography, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the most influential foreign language movies in the United States.
Tan Dun (譚盾; born in 1957) is a Chinese classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero. Among his compositions are operas, other movie soundtracks, and pieces using non-traditional instruments. His Paper Concerto (2003) relies solely on the manipulation of paper to create music, and his Water Passion After St. Matthew employs amplified bowls of water instead of traditional percussion. Tan Dun was selected by the Glenn Gould Foundation as the recipient of the 1996 City of Toronto's Glenn Gould International Protégé Prize in Music. In 1998, Tan Dun was awarded The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts by the Council for the Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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