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Ghost opera : for string quartet and pipa, with water, stones, paper, and metal
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- Creator
- Tan Dun
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- Chinese, English
- Contributors
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Wu, Man, performer
吳蠻, performer.
- Kronos Quartet
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Wu, Man, performer
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Nonesuch, [1997]
- ℗1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm36775069
- Credits
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- Wu Man, pipa, vocals, bowed gong, tam-tam, Tibetan bells, paper ; Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, violin, water bowl, bowed gong, vocals, one-stringed lute, cymbals, stones ; John Sherba, violin, paper whistle, vocals, cymbals, stones, one-stringed lute, bowed gong, water bowl ; Hank Dutt, viola, vocals, cymbals, stones, bowed gong, water bowl ; Joan Jeanrenaud, violoncello, vocals, bowed gong, water bowl)
- Executive producer: Robert Hurwitz
- For pipa and string quartet; all performers also provide vocals and play various percussion instruments
- Title from container verso
- Compact disc
- Program and biographical notes (in part by the composer)--in English, French, and German, and libretto (1 folded sheet : illustrations) inserted in container
- Recorded in Jan. 1996, Skywalker Ranch, Nicasio, CA
- Words sung or spoken in Chinese and English
- Act I. Bach, monks, and Shakespeare meet in water -- Act II. Earth dance -- Act III. Dialogue with "little cabbage" -- Act IV. Metal and stone -- Act V. Song of paper