MUZIEKGEBOUW AAN 'T IJ - Fri 9 June 8.30 PM
Margaret Leng Tan: Cowell, Cage, Crumb
Metamorphoses, Book I (2017) is George Crumb’s long-awaited new work for amplified piano. He is the Holland Festival’s composer in focus this year. Crumb wrote this composition specifically for pianist Margaret Leng Tan. He once called her ‘a sorceress of the piano’ because she is so thoroughly familiar with the unusual sound palette and playing techniques he requires. Tan caused a furore with her virtuoso performance of Crumb’s famous Makrokosmos cycle, and worked for a long time with John Cage, whose The Perilous Night is on the programme too. There are also compositions by one of the founders of the American experimental tradition, Henry Cowell, some of which are played entirely without using the piano keys.
Programme
John Cage (1912-1992)
The Perilous Night (1944)
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
The Tides of Manaunaun (1917)
Aeolian Harp (1923)
The Banshee (1925)
Advertisement (1914/1959)
interval
George Crumb (1929)
Metamorphoses, Book I (2017)
European premiere