Video: When flower pots become instruments
In Tan Dun’s Earth Concerto, clay and ceramic pots become featured instruments. Guest percussionist David Cossin shares the unique experience of shopping for instruments at a garden store during a December trip to Metropolitan Plant and Flower Exchange in Fort Lee with fellow percussionists James Neglia and James Musto.
Cossin previously appeared with the NJSO in 2011—the first year of the Orchestra’s “Man & Nature” Winter Festival cycle—performing Tan Dun’s Water Concerto, in which water becomes an instrument.
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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)