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Water Is the Source and Sustainer of Life

Tan Dun has written many pieces for water. He says that his connection to water is tied to his childhood and his desire to go back to something simple and clean. Water itself is a phenomenal molecule made up of some of the most plentiful elements in the cosmos, hydrogen and oxygen. Scientists are looking for liquid water because according to our understanding of life and its origins, water is the incubator of all living things.

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