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António Pinho VargasMargaret Leng Tan performs António Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys at Other Minds 5, 1999 (March 25, 1999)

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Margaret Leng Tan performs the U.S. premiere of António Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys (1979), arranged by the composer for her in 1999, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos

According to Tan:
Dinky Toys and General Complex are originally works for piano. António Pinho Vargas sent them to me with the following instructions: "You can do what you want (change register, organize, improvise, etc.) to play them on your toy piano."

I have especially taken liberties with register displacements to maximize timbral variety and, in General Complex, simply to accomodate the material within the toy piano's three octave compass.

Dinky Toys lives up to its name as a charmingly whimsical evocation of childhood. The blues ambiance of General Complex reflects António Pinho Vargas' experience as a jazz pianist, while his "serious" composer side surfaces in the atonal half of the piece. The wistful codetta strikes me as virtually tailor-made for the toy piano!
- Margaret Leng Tan


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Artist/Composer: António Pinho Vargas
Date: 1999-03-25
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: Other Minds
Keywords: Music; Unconventional Instruments; Toy Piano; Other Minds Festival

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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