Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yo-Yo Ma | 'HIDDEN' TREASURE Ma contributes to the ''Crouching Tiger'' soundtrack
Image credit: Yo Yo Ma: J. Henry Fair/Retna
'HIDDEN' TREASURE Ma contributes to the ''Crouching Tiger'' soundtrack
Music Review

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2012)

Various Artists
Reviewed by Josef Woodard | Jan 15, 2001
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Various Artists; Genre: Soundtracks

One way to refresh the bank of film scoring ideas is to hire outside the ranks of usual suspects. For the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon music, Chinese American composer Tan Dun, celebrated for his classical and operatic writing, conceived an elegant and exciting body of East West orchestral music. Cellist Yo Yo Ma is sometimes a melodic protagonist, and CoCo Lee sings the theme song, ''A Love Before Time.'' But the hero is Tan, whose evocative score defies clichés and gravity, like the movie's gymnastic mystics.

Originally posted Jan 15, 2001 Published in issue #578 Jan 19, 2001 Order article reprints
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