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Margaret Leng Tan Hailed by The New Yorker as "the diva of avant-garde pianism", Margaret Leng Tan is renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend the piano's conventional boundaries. She has progressively perfected an individual style fusing sound, choreography and theater, inspiring composers to create performer-specific works for her, among them John Cage, Tan Dun, Ge Gan-Ru, Aaron Jay Kernis, Alvin Lucier. One of the most celebrated performers of John Cage's music, Ms. Tan appears in the Public Broadcasting System's American Masters films on John Cage and Jasper Johns performing works by Cage. Her acclaimed Cage recordings on Mode, New Albion and ECM are critically regarded as definitive interpretations. As the world's first professional toy pianist, Ms. Tan has transformed a toy into a legitimate instrument. Since her groundbreaking album, The Art of the Toy Piano (Philips/ Universal), composers have continued to create an adventurous new repertoire for her toy pianos and toy instruments. Award-winning filmmaker Evans Chan has captured the many facets of Ms. Tan's talent in his Sorceress of the New Piano: The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan (2004), a 90 minute documentary feature which has been screened at several international film festivals. Ms. Tan celebrates George Crumb's 75th birthday with a Carnegie Hall performance of Makrokosmos I and II concurrent with this first DVD release of Crumb's music. Related Resources: Margaret Leng Tan on Mode: Sonic Encounters (mode 15) Sorceress of the New Piano, The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan (mode 194) John Cage: The Works for Piano 4 (mode 106) The Piano Works 7 (mode 158) George Crumb: Makrokosmos Books 1 and 2 (mode 142) Milos Raickovich: Prelude & Fugue (version for 2 Toy Pianos) (mode 45) Margaret Leng Tan online |
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