She Herself Alone: The Art Of The Toy Piano 2

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Album Summary

Performers

• Margaret Tan (Toy Piano)
• Margaret Tan (Prepared Piano)
• Margaret Tan (Piano)

Composers

• Erik Griswold
• Jerome Kitzke (1955 - )
• Toby Twining (1958 - )
• Ross Bolleter (1946 - )
• John Cage (1912 - 1992)
• George Crumb (1929 - )
• Laura Liben (1943 - )

Notes & Reviews:

In addition to being a renowned new music pianist, Margaret Leng Tan is the foremost specialist at the toy piano. She has concertized worldwide with her miniature instruments, bestowing them with serious music status in repertoire both written for her and arrangements. For this disc of attractive and challenging music, Ms. Tan performs Cage's classic "Suite for Toy Piano" plus her arrangement of Cage's seminal "Dream" for toy & grand piano (a work that foreshadowed new age music); and her arrangement for voice and toy instruments of a recent song by George Crumb.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010).

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Works Details

Cage, John : Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano

• Performer: Margaret Tan (Toy Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 6 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1948

Griswold, Erik : Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine, for toy piano, prepared piano, music box & percussion

• Performers: Margaret Tan (Toy Piano); Margaret Tan (Prepared Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 14 min. 37 sec.
• Written: 2004

Twining, Toby : An American in Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango), for toy piano & piano

• Performers: Margaret Tan (Piano); Margaret Tan (Toy Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 5 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2001

Crumb, George : Put My Little Shoes Away, for voice, toy piano & toy percussion quartet

• Performers: Margaret Tan (Toy Piano); Margaret Tan (Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 3 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 2008

Kitzke, Jerome : The Animist Child, for toy piano and voice

• Performers: Margaret Tan (Toy Piano); Margaret Tan (Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 7 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1994

Cage, John : Dream

• Performers: Margaret Tan (Toy Piano); Margaret Tan (Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 7 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1948

Bolleter, Ross : Hymn to Ruin, for ruined toy piano & ruined piano

• Notes: WARPS Studios, Perth, Western Australia (01/07/2010-01/09/2010); Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010); WARPS Studios, Perth, Western Australia (02/09/2010); Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (02/09/2010)
• Running Time: 7 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2010

Liben, Laura : She Herself Alone, for toy piano & toy psaltery

• Performer: Margaret Tan (Toy Piano)
• Notes: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (01/07/2010-01/09/2010)
• Running Time: 6 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1996-2002