On this day, 29 years ago, on September 23, 1996 (August 11, 1996 in the lunar calendar), Tan Dun won the Canadian "Glen-Goode" International Music Award. Tan Dun The judging committee of the 4th Canadian "Gran Goode International Music Award" announced in Toronto on September 23, 1996 that this "Gran Goode International Music Award" will be awarded to outstanding China composer Tan Dun. The music award, named after Glenn Gould, the most influential musician and pianist of the century, honors every five years a musician who has made outstanding achievements in world music culture today. The award ceremony was held at 7 p.m. on September 25 (Gran Goode's birthday) on National Television of Canada. The Prime Minister of Canada and the Mayor of Toronto attended and presided over the award ceremony. At the award ceremony, Tan Dun received the award certificate and prize money and delivered a speech. Since then, Tan Dun personally conducted the National Radio Orchestra of Canada to perform his new work "Piano Association Feng" for guests from all over the world who came to attend the award ceremony. Canadian National Radio broadcast the event live. Three years ago, the judging committee of the "Gran-Goode Music Award" selected Tucu Taketomansu, a world-renowned composer, as the designated host of this award. Before Wu Manchu passed away in February this year, he solemnly nominated Tan Dun to the judging committee as the 1996 winner. The judging committee unanimously agreed to award the award to Tan Dun. Wu Manche once pointed out: "Although Mr. Tan Dun belongs to the younger generation of composers, his unique personality and depth of musical content have left a deep footprint in the history of music. His music has a profound sense of history and grand spirit of China tradition. His broad musical imagination is often admired. In his music, we hear human voices. I am sure he can be called one of the most outstanding composers of our time." Tan Dun graduated with honors from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the School of Art at Colombia University in New York in his early years, and received a master's degree in composition and a doctorate in music art. In the past 10 years, his music has been performed around the world, won the love of audiences and authoritative music critics from all over the world, and has had a great influence in international cultural exchanges. In 1995, he became the first Eastern composer in history to be hired as a permanent composer and conductor by the British BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In addition to winning the "Gran Goode International Music Award", Tan Dun recently awarded his first opera "Marco Polo", which is touring around the world, was selected as the best opera of the year in 1996 by Germany's most authoritative music magazine "Opera World". Currently, Tan Dun has accepted a commission to create a new chapter for the 2000 cross-century celebration for world-class art groups such as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan, the New York and Dutch Opera House, and the National Symphony Orchestra of France.