Though perhaps best known for his film scores, including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Tan Dun is a prolific and versatile composer whose work fuses conventional instruments, natural sounds,electronics, and Asian and Western idioms into a dynamic, cohesive whole. In this interview Tan Dun discusses the artistic strategies employed in his theatrical oratorio "Water Passion," inspired by Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion." (#24267)