A be aware to these programming classical concert events: The community can’t be depended on! The month Chinese language American composer Tan Dun took the degree on Saturday night time at Strathmore with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, stray bits of synthetic birdsong started leaking from far and wide the corridor. Let me give an explanation for.
For this program — lightly crack between Tan Dun’s personal tune and 2 significant other works by way of Igor Stravinsky — the composer/conductor equipped a leaflet with a QR code that, when scanned, opened an audio report in your telephone. (You’ll be able to see the place that is going.) That recording — a simulation of birdsong as produced by way of a sextet of historical Chinese language tools — was once meant to be deployed all over an “interactive” passage of the night’s extreme piece, Tan’s “Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds,” billed as a composition “for cellphone and orchestra.”
