Margaret Leng Tan concert at Moscow State conservatoire
Re:Formers Fest 2019
MINIATURE meets MONUMENTAL
performed by
MARGARET LENG TAN
piano, toy piano, toy instruments and toys
PROGRAMME
TIDES OF MANAUNAUN (1917) Henry Cowell
ADVERTISEMENT (1914/1959) (1897-1965)
piano
CAROUSEL (2010) Phyllis Chen
*COBWEBBED CAROUSEL (2010) (b.1978)
toy piano and music box
video by Rob Dietz
FÜR ENOLA(2011) James Joslin
toy piano, jack-in-the-box and spinning top (b.1987)
*from Old MacDonald’s Yellow Submarine (2004) Erik Griswold
CHOOKS!, BICYCLE LEE HOOKER (b.1969)
toy piano, woodblocks, bicycle bell, bicycle horn, train whistle
*STAR-SPANGLED ETUDE no.3 (1996) Raphael Mostel
(“Furling Banner”) (b.1948)
toy piano, toy siren, police whistle, toy gun
INTERMISSION
A ninetieth birthday tribute
*METAMORPHOSES (Book I) (2015-17) GEORGE CRUMB
Ten Fantasy-Pieces (after celebrated paintings) (b.1929)
for amplified piano
toy piano, auxiliary percussion, voice
1. BLACK PRINCE (1927) - Paul Klee
2. THE GOLDFISH (1925) - Paul Klee
3. WHEATFIELD WITH CROWS (1890) - Vincent van Gogh
4. THE FIDDLER (1912-13) - Marc Chagall
5. NOCTURNE: BLUE AND GOLD - Southampton Water (1871)
James McNeill Whistler
6. PERILOUS NIGHT (1990) - Jasper Johns
7. CLOWNS AT NIGHT (1957) - Marc Chagall
8. CONTES BARBARES (1902) - Paul Gauguin
9. THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY (1931) - Salvador Dalí
10.THE BLUE RIDER (1903) - Vasily Kandinsky
*written for Margaret Leng Tan
Ms. Tan plays the Steinway piano and the Schoenhut toy piano
Image of chickens with toy piano mountain by Phyllis Chen
5 окт 2024
