Tan Dun’s ‘Martial Arts Trilogy’ at Wolf Trap: Gravity-defying movie music

Ah, tragic love. Wolf Trap was awash in it — not to mention aerial sword fights, blood-soaked revenge, thundering armies on horseback and all that other irresistible stuff — on Friday night, when the composer Tan Dun brought his hot-off-the-presses "Martial Arts Trilogy" to the Filene Center stage.

Dun, of course, is the Chinese composer who burst into the mainstream after winning an Oscar for his score to the 2000 blockbuster "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," famous for its balletic, gravity-defying martial arts. He went on to score two similar films — "The Banquet" and "Hero" — and in this new work he has reconfigured all of that music into a set of interlocking concertos that follow the sacrifices, passions and billowing dresses of the female leads as scenes from the movies unfold overhead.

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Anthony Faiola 09 Aug, 2011

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