Margaret Leng Tan performs John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes- Rescheduled by Hurricane Sandy December 16, 2012

Pianist Margaret Leng Tan returns for a performance of one of John Cage’s most important works, Sonatas and Interludes. Rhythmic and driving, Sonatas and Interludes is a collection of twenty pieces - sixteen sonatas and four more freely structured interludes - composed for prepared piano, a Cagean innovation that uses screws, bolts, pieces of rubber and plastic, to reimagine the piano as an orchestra of percussive sounds. Inspired by Indian philosophy and music, the aim of the pieces is to express the eight permanent emotions of the rasa Indian tradition.
This performance was originally scheduled for October, but it was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. Join long time Cage collaborator Margaret Leng Tan for this much anticipated performance of Cage's Sonatas and Interludes.