Composer Tan Dun spreads his wings as an audience unmutes their phones

Composer Tan Dan and five visiting musicians joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore Music Center on Saturday

Composer Tan Dun led a program of Stravinsky and his own works with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Saturday at Strathmore Music Center. A note to those programming classical concerts: The people cannot be trusted! The moment Chinese American composer Tan Dun took the stage on Saturday night at Strathmore with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, stray bits of artificial birdsong began leaking from all over the hall. Let me explain.

For this program — evenly split between Tan Dun’s own music and a pair of companion works by Igor Stravinsky — the composer/conductor provided a leaflet with a QR code that, when scanned, opened an audio file on your phone.

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