The Philadelphia Orchestra Presents Tan Dun's The Map 11/12

Award-winning composer Tan Dun returns to lead The Philadelphia Orchestra in a performance of The Map, his multimedia concerto for cello, video, and orchestra on November 12. This East-meets-West extravaganza combines a live orchestral performance with a series of video field recordings, projected above and throughout the Orchestra on multiple screens, that capture the musical life of the Tujia, Miao, and Dong, three of the 55 ethnic groups comprising China's non-Han minority population. Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Cello and Shanghai native Hai-Ye Ni is soloist. The work received its first Philadelphia Orchestra performances in November 2004. For this program, The Map is paired with the composer's mash-up inspired Internet Symphony No. 1 ("Eroica"), which was commissioned by Google and YouTube as part of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra project.

This performance of The Map is part of Sound Waves, the Orchestra's new multimedia, multicultural series. Sound Waves continues with The Inca Trail: A Musical Journey with Miguel Harth-Bedoya (January 14) and The Thomashefskys with Michael Tilson Thomas (February 15 and 16).

Sound Waves: Tan Dun's The Map
November 12 at 7:00 PM - Friday evening - Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Tan Dun Conductor
Hai-Ye Ni Cello
Tan Dun Internet Symphony No. 1 ("Eroica") - First Philadelphia Orchestra
Performance
Tan Dun The Map, Concerto for Cello, Video, and Orchestra
Tickets: $25-$65, 215.893.1999 or www.philorch.org .