Star-Ledger video: Using flower pots as percussion
Watch a Star-Ledger video following the process of bringing Tan Dun’s Earth Concerto to life—from the percussionists’ trip to a garden store for the flower pots that would become instruments to a full orchestra rehearsal at NJPAC in Newark. The NJSO gives the U.S. premiere of the concerto this weekend in Princeton, Newark and Morristown.
Read a Star-Ledger feature on the instrument shopping trip and view a photo gallery.
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Additional media outlets previewed this weekend’s concerts, which open the NJSO’s 2014 “Man & Nature” winter festival, Earth.
An eagerly anticipated annual event, the NJSO’s Winter Festival finds the orchestra tackling yet another elemental theme this year: Jacques Lacombe and his players celebrate the earth with Tan Dun’s Earth Concerto (featuring percussionist David Cossin) and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
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MAHLER'S DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
2013-14 Season Winter Festival Concert
JACQUES LACOMBE conductor
DAVID COSSIN percussion
ZHANG MENG wind instruments
ELIZABETH BISHOP mezzo-soprano
RUSSELL THOMAS tenor
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
TAN DUN Earth Concerto (U.S. Premiere)
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)