ABOUT MARGARET LENG TAN photo:Michael Dames SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO Documentary by EVANS CHAN FREE screening: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza New York 10023 Saturday, May 31 at 2 pm Includes live toy piano performance at 2 pm and post-screening Q & A For info call: (212) 642 0142 or visit nypl.org/lpaprograms MOURNING with Eiko & Koma XV Annual International Conteporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival Tues, July 1, 7.30pm Silesian Dance Theater Bytom, Poland www.stt.art.pl MOURNING with Eiko & Koma Open Look Dance Festival Friday, July 4, 8pm Baltijsky Dom Theatre St.Petersburg, Russia www.kannondance.ru TAN DUN NACHTS at KLAVIER FESTIVAL RUHR CONCERTO FOR PIZZICATO PIANO AND 10 INSTRUMENTS with members of the Essen Philharmonie, Tan Dun, conductor THE STEEL QIN: New Asian Piano Music Saturday, July 12, 8pm Essen Philharmonie, RWE pavilion Essen, Germany www.klavierfestival.de MOURNING with Eiko & Koma SUMMER STAGES DANCE at Concord Academy Thursday, July 17, 8pm Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy 166 Main Street, Concord, MA www.summerstagesdance.org NEW ALBION at BARDSUMMERSCAPE '08 John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano Erik Griswold: Chooks, Bicycle Lee Hooker Ge Gan-ru: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! Sat, August 2, 3.30 pm (family matinee) Bard College Summerscape in the Spiegeltent Annandale-on-Husdon, New York www.fishercenter.bard.edu MOURNING with Eiko & Koma HELENA PRESENTS Mon, August 25, 8pm Myrna Loy Center Helena, MT www.myrnaloycenter.com MOURNING with Eiko & Koma Thurs, August 28, 8pm Williams Center at Lafayette College Easton, PA www.lafayette.edu NEW and RECENT RECORDINGS/DVDs: SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO (2004, 92 mins) by EVANS CHAN With French, German and Spanish subtitles The long-awaited DVD release on Mode Records this April! Includes DVD extra: THE MAVERICK PIANO (2007, 50 mins) by EVANS CHAN Watch the trailer at: www.moderecords.com (212) 979 1027 SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO is also available in Japan on Uplink Japanese title: ART OF THE TOY PIANO: THE WORLD OF MARGARET LENG TAN (with Japanese subtitles) www.uplink.co.jp WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! melodrama for voice and toy orchestra by GE GAN-RU on his "LOST STYLE" CD, New Albion Records (NA134) release date: June 12, 2007 www.newalbion.com JOHN CAGE: WORKS FOR PIANO 7 Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano plus world premiere recording of his recently re-discovered score-painting, Chess Pieces Also Chess Serenade by Vittorio Rieti mode 158 CD/DVD Gramophone Magazine "Desert Island Choice" (Feb 07) An All Music Guide Best of 2006 selection www.moderecords.com Re-issue of SONIC ENCOUNTERS (originally released in 1989) CAGE: Primitive, In the Name of the Holocaust HOVHANESS: Orbit, Jhala CRUMB: Five Pieces for Piano SOMEI SATOH: Cosmic Womb GE GAN-RU: Ancient Music mode 15 CD www.moderecords.com Click Here for Recordings

Available from Mode Records George Crumb Makrokosmos I & II Toy Piano Profile MOURNING A collaboration with Eiko&Koma

"SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO: THE ARTISTRY OF MARGARET LENG TAN" ---The 90-minute documentary film by Evans Chan. Read about Margaret Leng Tan's performance for the 50th anniversary of John Cage's 4'33" at the historic Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York. Enjoy her essay "THE SILENT REVOLUTION": Some Personal Reflections on John Cage.

Audio-visual from Minnesota Public Radio's AMERICAN MAVERICKS Series

Toying With Cage: Margaret Leng Tan Brings a Virtuoso's Touch to the Keyboards of the Avant-Garde (Read the Interview) Read Margaret Leng Tan's discussion on John Cage and his score-painting "CHESS PIECES" with All Music Guide's Uncle Dave Lewis

"A PERFORMER DRAWN TO THE WILD SIDE", a New York Times profile Margaret Leng Tan performs John Cage's "IN THE NAME OF THE HOLOCAUST" Playing toy piano and toy instruments

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