Margaret Leng Tan's guest appearances

Margaret Leng Tan

National Gallery of Art | Music

Verso

Making a Scene

Celeste Headlee

Carrie Mae Weems

Hieronymus Bosch

David Wojnarowicz

Jeremy Monteiro

Kerry James Marshall

Marc Chagall

Dom Flemons

Emily Wells

John Cage

Christian McBride

George Bellows

Jonathan Coopersmith

Vijay Iyer

Zakir Hussain

OwlTail

Program: The Three Cs: Cage, Cowell, Crumb—Pioneers of the Avant-Garde Piano In this program you will hear the Singaporean pianist Margaret Leng Tan perform The Perilous Night (John Cage), The Tides of Manaunaun (Henry Cowell), Aeolian Harp (Henry Cowell), The Banshee (Henry Cowell), Advertisement (Henry Cowell), and Metamorphoses, Book I (George Crumb). Acclaimed by the New Yorker as a diva in the art of playing the piano, Tan herself is a major force in the American avant-garde who embraces theater, choreography, and performance in her work. This concert was held at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, May 7, 2017.

Huang Ruo

Cage “loved the way I prepared the piano”, Margaret Leng Tan, one of the foremost interpreters of his music, tells us in this episode of Making A Scene. In preparing the piano, she was influenced by the diverse music of her multicultural upbringing in Singapore. But for this Juilliard-trained pianist, it was also her encounter with Cage’s Asian-influenced artistic outlook that sparked a new engagement with her own cultural roots.That’s just one way the subject of diverse cultural influences comes up in this spirited conversation between Tan and  composer Huang Ruo, moderated by Esplanade programmer Lynn Yang. For China-born Huang, who is also a Juilliard graduate and based in New York like Tan, musical genres from different cultures are just one dimension of sound that inform his expansive creative process.

Cage “loved the way I prepared the piano”, Margaret Leng Tan, one of the foremost interpreters of his music, tells us in this episode of Making A Scene. In preparing the piano, she was influenced by the diverse music of her multicultural upbringing in Singapore. But for this Juilliard-trained pianist, it was also her encounter with Cage’s Asian-influenced artistic outlook that sparked a new engagement with her own cultural roots.<br><br>That’s just one way the subject of diverse cultural influences comes up in this spirited conversation between Tan and  composer Huang Ruo, moderated by Esplanade programmer Lynn Yang. For China-born Huang, who is also a Juilliard graduate and based in New York like Tan, musical genres from different cultures are just one dimension of sound that inform his expansive creative process.

Making A Scene: Making music with Margaret Leng Tan and Huang Ruo

George Crumb

With the premiere of his first major piano work in more than 40 years, Metamorphosis, Grammy and Pulitzer prize-winning composer George Crumb and world-renowned pianist Margaret Leng Tan are set to debut the new performance at the Barnes on November 8. The performance marries the musical compositions of Crumb with the visual works of the Barnes collection, which Crumb used for inspiration and interaction in Metamorphosis. Tune in for a conversation with Crumb and Tan, as well as Katherine Skovira and Robert Whalen of the Barnes, to hear about the exciting new performance!

Verso: Conversation With George Crumb And Margaret Leng Tan – A Philadelphia Premiere