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	Margaret Leng Tan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Leng Tan was born in Singapore in 1953.
		Tan performed Cage’s music throughout North America, Europe and Asia and in the PBS “American Masters” films on John Cage and Jasper Johns.
		Margaret Leng Tan performs at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Leng_Tan (249 words)

	Margaret Leng Tan: "The Art of the Toy Piano" \| Santa Fe New Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Margaret Leng Tan, known as the "Diva of the Avant Garde" performed her wonderfully entertaining program "Ode to Schroeder: The Art of the Toy Piano" in a concert presented by Santa Fe New Music on Friday, February 21, 2003 at 8:00 pm at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe.
		Margaret Leng Tan is an internationally celebrated artist renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend the piano's conventional boundaries.
		Tan and her diminutive instruments present a music-theater of nostalgia and exuberance at festivals around the world, and she has appeared alongside a litany of today's most hailed artists in classical music.
	www.sfnm.org /events/past/0203/feb21.html (1846 words)

	Internet Archive Search: margaret leng tan
		Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos According to Tan: The published score of the Three 2-Part Studies bears the following dedication: "For JÃ¼rgen, a dearest friend, who found this score, forgotten in the dust of my studio." When I first embarked on my career as a toy pianist in 1995, I was ferreti...
		Margaret Leng Tan, toy cymbals According to Tan: Fanfare is the prelude from The Winged Energy of Delight, a four-movement suite written for my toy piano by John Kennedy, composer and co-artistic director of the new music group "Essential Music." He thought it would be fun to hav...
		Margaret Leng Tan performs the U.S. premiere of AntÃ³nio Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys (1979), arranged by the composer for her in 1999, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
	www.archive.org /search.php?query=margaret+leng+tan (1241 words)

	John Cage - Volume 25: The Works for Piano 4
		Margaret Leng Tan belongs to that small number of musicians whose familiarity with the Cagean aesthetic universe was acquired through close personal collaboration with the composer.
		Margaret Leng Tan explores the resources of three pianos whose wedged damper pedals make possible multi-layered resonances and overtones, weaving the dispersed individual sounds from the three self-contained scores into a sound odyssey of poetic magic and expressivity.
		Margaret Leng Tan gehört zu den wenigen Musikern, die Cages Ideenwelt noch in enger personlicher Zusammenarbeit kenned gelernt haben und zählt (nicht nur deshalb) zu den besten Interpreten seiner Klaviermusik.
	www.moderecords.com /catalog/106cage.html (2603 words)

	Margaret Leng Tan
		Tan plays many of her concerts on a toy piano, one of those tinkly sounding miniature keyboards that children play.
		Although she is by no means the first to master the techniques of performing inside the piano, her way of combining the avant-garde pianism with her toy piano work, as well as her program of commissioning new works for both instruments, has made this diminutive pianist an important figure in the world of contemporary music.
		Tan began playing the toy piano regularly in concert, she said, composers began writing her e-mail messages full of ideas for new pieces.
	www.toypiano.com /margaret_leng_tan.htm (1751 words)

	Amazon.ca: Cage: Piano Works Volume 4: Music: Margaret Leng Tan,John Cage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Given the stature of Margaret Leng Tan as an interpreter of John Cage's piano music, it was a wise move of Mode to assign at least one volume of their ongoing Cage piano music project to her.
		Works of Calder was also written for film, and in this performance Tan sensibly chooses to fit the sound and dialog from the original film in between her performances of 16 minutes of prepared piano music from it.
		In this late piece from 1989--for a single pianist playing between one and four pianos (Tan plays it on three)--the score indicates chords, single notes and tremolos to be played and leaves it up to the performer how to play them (as well as allowing a certain amount of preparation of the pianos).
	www.amazon.ca /Cage-Piano-Margaret-Leng-Tan/dp/B000062TC1 (603 words)

	International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Margaret Leng Tan, referred to as "a diva of avant-garde pianism" by the New Yorker, is renowned for pushing the parameters of conventional piano.
		Born in Singapore, Tan now resides in Brooklyn when she is not touring internationally.
		Tan is also the first woman to graduate with a doctorate in music from the Juilliard School.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/IPAMtan.html (140 words)

	classical music - andante - through the silence: john cage and beyond
		Margaret Leng Tan is a — make that the — toy piano specialist, and in this concert she demonstrated how well the instrument works alone and paired with other instruments.
		In Tan's hands, the relentlessly cheerful work shifted rhythmic and melodic patterns through the instrumental array with a feeling of spontaneity that overcame the sense of novelty-for-novelty's-sake.
		As she prepares for a weekend of John Cage performances at Carnegie Hall, pianist Margaret Leng Tan reflects on the legacy of her mentor and explains why we are all his spiritual children.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=18399 (1014 words)

	Margaret Leng Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tan and her diminutive instruments present a music-theater of nostalgia and exuberance at festivals around the world where she has appeared alongside a litany of today’s most hailed artists in classical music.
		Tan’s talent in his Sorceress of the New Piano: The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan (2004), a 90-minute documentary, which has been invited to several international film festivals.
		Margaret Leng Tan was the first woman to graduate with a doctorate from The Juilliard School and is a recipient of The National Endowment for the Arts’ Solo Recitalist Award.
	carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5247_ma.html?... (487 words)

	MUSIC
		Margaret Leng Tan has been called the diva of avant-garde pianism, a label she lived up to in a vigorous performance Friday at the Freer Gallery.
		Tan explained the term, demonstrating how inserting bolts, screws, rubber and even chewing gum into the instrument creates a miniature percussion section.
		But for all the fascinating sounds Tan summoned, an essential ingredient was silence, especially in "The Seasons" by her mentor, John Cage.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012901004_pf.html (1125 words)

	SFist: SFIAAFF: Sorceress of the New Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Margaret Leng Tan, called "the diva of avant-garde pianism" by the New Yorker, has been exploring the limits of the sounds that can be created by the piano for the last 20-30 years.
		Tan started out with the standard classical repertoire in her studies at Juilliard, but by the time she began working on her doctoral dissertation there, she was becoming more and more intrigued by the possibilities of the piano beyond the keyboard and more as a percussive instrument in its own right.
		Tan said that she thought maybe performance art, since her work was increasingly relying on the artifice of stage presence.
	www.sfist.com /archives/2005/03/14/sfiaaff_sorceress_of_the_new_piano-print.php (714 words)

	Past Faust Harrison Piano Events
		Internationally celebrated artist Margaret Leng Tan is renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that defy the piano's conventional boundaries.
		Margaret Leng Tan's work with extended piano techniques led her to the toy piano, which she has championed as a bona fide musical instrument.
		Margaret Leng Tan's program features John Cage's 1944 magnum opus, Four Walls, and the American premiere of selections from the Stundenbuch (Book of Hours) by the German composer Hans Otte in her own arrangement for piano, string piano, and toy piano.
	www.faustharrisonpianos.com /piano-events-past.asp (5000 words)

	P-ART WEB OF ARTISTS: Margaret Leng Tan
		I admire Margaret Leng Tan's passion in expanding the boundaries of the piano beyond the pioneering work of Cowell, Cage and Crumb.
		Her choreographic approach to the piano, reminiscent of chinese "tai-chi", is the outcome of highly co-ordinated movement between the keyboard and the piano's interior.
		In keeping with the philosophy of her long-time mentor, John Cage, Margaret Leng Tan's performances combine an Eastern spiritual concentration, the Zen art of "non-doing", with her western classical training.
	users.skynet.be /P-ART/P-ARTWEB/9TAN/LENGTAN.htm (760 words)

	Margaret Leng Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I have long enjoyed Margaret Leng Tanâs superb playing of my piano music, which for me reached a high point in her recently completed Mode DVD recording of my Makrokosmos, Volumes I and II.
		Margaret has certainly earned her place as one of the very finest pianists specializing in new music.
		Margaret Leng Tan's insightful and riveting performance, fusing sound, choreography, and theater, distills the magical essence of Crumb's timbral universe.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5247_pf.html (2439 words)

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		The brilliance of John Cage’s compositions was highlighted in Margaret Leng Tan’s performance in Crowell Concert Hall.
		Tan is hailed by The New York Times as “the world’s premiere string piano virtuoso.” The first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Music from Julliard, she is renowned for pushing the piano’s conventional boundaries.
		As was clear from Tan’s performance on the toy piano, theater is one of the principal aspects of John Cage’s music.
	www.wesleyan.edu /argus/archives/oct182002/dateyear/a6.html (735 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Art of the Toy Piano / Margaret Leng Tan at Epinions.com
		Margaret Leng Tan is perhaps the only living connoisseur of playing the toy piano as more than a preschool stepping stone.
		Tan searched far and wide for her own toy piano on which to perform other works.
		But while I am impressed greatly with Tan's technical musicianship, the combination of some cold and distant choices for music plus the sheer avant-garde nature of the instrument make this a difficult listen.
	www.epinions.com /content_137029193348 (1070 words)

	northwest asian american film festival
		Tan said, ''George Crumb, along with John Cage and Henry Cowell, forms a triumvirate -- the three C's, the three intrepid American pioneers of 20th-century avant-garde pianism.
		Tan, who now has 16 toy pianos and three Steinways in her Brooklyn apartment.
		Margaret Leng Tan will perform George Crumb's ''Makrokosmos,'' Books I and II, in a 75th-birthday salute to the composer tomorrow night at 7:30 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800.
	www.nwaaff.org /blogs/nyt-tan.html (1802 words)

	Margaret Leng Tan - Sonic Encounters
		The second recording from Margaret Leng-Tan, the "diva of the avant-garde", featuring works by three composers whom she specializes in: John Cage (USA), Somei Satoh (Japan) and Ge Gan-ru (China/USA).
		But, this is a great introduction to the exotic sounds of the avant-garde piano, and Margaret Leng Tan's scrupulous artistry reveals the extent to which she takes this music seriously.
		Tan plays all the works with grace, sympathy and power.
	www.moderecords.com /catalog/015tan.html (321 words)

	New Albion Artists: Margaret Leng Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Music from Juilliard, Margaret Leng Tan has since evolved a radically individual performance style fusing sound, choreography and drama.
		Hailed as "the world's premiere string piano virtuoso" and "the diva of avant-garde pianism" (New York Times), she is known for her performances of Asian and American music that defy the conventional boundaries of the instrument.
		Tan made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1991.
	www.newalbion.com /artists/tanml (218 words)

	Amazon.com: The Art of the Toy Piano: Music: Margaret Leng Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For her first full-length exploration of the toy piano's slightly out-of-tune and whimsically off-kilter, percussive sound, Margaret Leng Tan covers a wide variety of material, cobbling together a surprisingly coherent, entertaining effort.
		But Tan not only has the sensitivity and control to mix these works without mashing them but also celebrates the odd, clunky musicality of the instrument.
		Margaret Leng Tan has been playing her version of what a piano "Could" or "Should" sound like for years.
	www.amazon.com /Toy-Piano-Margaret-Leng-Tan/dp/B0000040VC (887 words)

	French culture \| music \| Satie: A Mammal's Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Leng Tan and a changing combination of dance, shadow theater, mask performance, film, bunraku puppetry, and vaudeville performance forms.
		Painist Margaret Leng Tan is renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that defy the piano's conventional boundaries.
		Her recordings include The Art of the Toy Piano, Litania: Margaret Leng Tang Plays Somei Satoh; and two definitive albums of John Cage's music:The Perilous Night/Four Walls and Daughters of the Lonesome Isle.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/01satie.html (754 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com Music - Classical Interview
		Born in Singapore, Tan received a thorough grounding in the classical tradition and became the first woman to receive a doctorate in performance from Juilliard.
		But she soon became intrigued by a less conventional pursuit: the "prepared piano." Her mentor John Cage invented, in his words, this "percussion orchestra under the control of a single player," by inserting all sorts of objects among the piano's strings.
		On Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, Tan recorded Cage's works for this and other avant-garde variations on the piano, including the distinctive ringing tones of the toy piano.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /features/interview.asp?NID=315413 (1485 words)

	SILVERDOCS 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tan was the first woman to graduate from Julliard with a doctorate.
		Her performances are as much theater and percussion as traditional keyboarding, combining drumming the frame, speaking and humming, as well as various modifications to the piano itself.
		Seeing the sonic limitations of the diminutive device as more of a challenge to her skills than as an indication that the instrument is flawed, she has created a whole new career for herself.
	www.silverdocs.com /2005/films/sorce.aspx (349 words)

	S.F. International Asian American Film Festival 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hailed by The New Yorker as "the diva of avant-garde pianism," Singapore-born, New York-based artist Margaret Leng Tan is one of the most important figures in contemporary music.
		Tan's life and contributions—and her famous toy pianos— take center stage in SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO, an engrossing new documentary that invites the viewer to literally get inside the piano and discover the sublime sonic universe conjured by this musical force of nature.
		Though her musical lineage is traced back to such American pioneers as Henry Cowell, George Crumb and longtime mentor John Cage, it is Tan who breathes life into the philosophical legacy of those composers, channeling their aesthetic provocations into accessible interpretations while continually investigating the East-West cultural instersection.
	asianamericanmedia.org /festival/2005/html/programs/sorceress.html (178 words)

	San Francisco Bay Guardian \| Arts and Entertainment
		Carnegie Hall grands and cheap toy instruments are all child's play for avant-garde performer Margaret Leng Tan, subject of Sorceress of the New Piano.
		JUST A SHORT chat with avant-garde pianist and toy-piano maestro Margaret Leng Tan is enough to get a taste of her protean abilities, captured in full force in award-winning filmmaker Evans Chan's documentary Sorceress of the New Piano.
		Margaret Leng Tan performs before the screening, and a Q&A will be held after it.
	www.sfbg.com /39/23/art_film_sorceress.html (519 words)

	Roulette: Spring 2006 Events: March Schedule
		Tan is renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend the piano's conventional boundaries.
		One of the leading performers of John Cage's music, she is also the world's first professional toy pianist who has transformed a toy into a bona fide instrument with a bona fide repertoire heard in festivals around the world.
		Tan's long-awaited recording of Cage's Sonatas and Interludes and the first recording of Chess Pieces.
	www.roulette.org /events/2006_04.html (2552 words)

	BOOM! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tan Dun and George Crumb were reunited for the first time since Tan Dun's student days in Beijing.
		Tan Dun and Margaret Leng Tan were reunited for the first time since the world premiere of the Concerto for Pizzicato Piano ten years ago.
		Tan Dun, whose work The Map was featured by The Philadelphia Orchestra, receives two areas premieres at this season's inaugural concert: Circle, with Four Trios, Conductor, and Audience and Concerto for Pizzicato Piano.
	www.orchestra2001.org /concert1.html (166 words)

	WNYC - Music - New Sounds Live
		Written especially for toy piano player Margaret Leng Tan, she and the East Coast-based new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, 20-members strong, perform this reverberant and percussive piece.
		Margaret Leng Tan's commitment to repertory transcending the piano's conventional boundaries has inspired many composers to create performer-specific works for her.
		Tan is a recipient of The National Endowment for the Arts' Solo Recitalist Award and the first woman to graduate with a doctorate from The Juilliard School.
	www.wnyc.org /music/articles/23724 (456 words)

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