Margaret Leng Tan
In Conjunction with Our Children Today Margaret Leng Tan will give a concert on toy piano and toy instruments on Friday, October 18th at 7.30 pm. Don’t miss this unique performance by Park Slope resident and “queen of the toy piano” (The New York Times)!
Suggested donation is $15 at the door. For reservations please email contact@opensourcegallery.org with the subject line: Margaret Leng Tan
Photo by Michael Dames
Margaret Leng Tan has established herself as a major force within the American avant-garde as a visionary pianist whose work sidesteps perceived artificial boundaries within the usual concert experience and creates a new level of communication with listeners.
Embracing aspects of theater, choreography, performance and even “props” such as the teapot she “plays” in Alvin Lucier’s Nothing is Real, Tan has brought to the avant-garde, a measure of good old-fashioned showmanship tempered with a disciplinary rigor inherited from her mentor John Cage. This has won Tan acceptance far beyond the norm for performers of avant-garde music, as she is regularly featured at international festivals, records often for adventurous labels such as Mode and New Albion and has appeared on American public television, at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
The collaboration between Margaret Leng Tan’s toy piano performance and Miho Suzuki’s photography is meant to create a surreal and nostalgic experience that will touch the audience as they are swept away by the magic of the toy piano.
