Posted on: Thursday, June 30, 2005
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Symphony-worthy performance by professional toy pianist
Advertiser Staff
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Cinema Paradise WEDDING DAY WEIGHT
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FINAL WORD
" — Rick Schroder, who now plays a surgeon on Lifetime's "Strong Medicine," telling People magazine that the new gig can sometimes be a little too realistic for his liking.
What would make the tony folks at the New Yorker call Margaret Leng Tan "the diva of avant-garde pianism"? Well, performing Beethoven, John Cage and the Beatles on a toy piano as expertly and seriously as a symphony pianist, for one. Strumming the strings of a grand piano like a harp? Yup, Tan does that, too. And after tonight's Cinema Paradise screening of "Sorceress of the New Piano" — a documentary tracking her unique music career — Tan will show off exactly how a professional toy pianist tackles, say, Philip Glass and Tan Dun, live. The film starts at 8:30 p.m., entry is $10. At Next Door, 43 N. Hotel St. Info: www.cinemaparadise.org.
A documentary tracking Margaret Leng Tan's career shows tonight at Next Door.
My hands will be inside a bloody prosthetic stomach, and it all looks so real that I'm staring like I'm in shock. Then I remember, 'The camera's rolling — I've got to do something.' "
