The ancient murals of the Dunhuang desert’s caves came out to play at the Orpheum earlier this month for Grammy and Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion.
The punky “brutal” kicked off her performance, with punchy guitar notes juxtaposing vulnerable lyrics, such as “They say these are the golden years / But I wish I could disappear.”
Patricia Hoy was not merely playing the piano with her fingers, she was playing with her entire being.
A review from NPR embedded in the program’s text declared it a synthesis between 70’s rock and Indigenous folk music — what could that possibly sound like?
