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Errollyn Wallen & Margaret Leng TanMargaret Leng Tan performs Errollyn Wallen's Louis' Loops at Other Minds 5, 1999 (March 25, 1999)

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Margaret Leng Tan performs the world premiere of Errollyn Wallen's Louis' Loops (1999) written for Margaret Leng Tan especially for Other Minds Music Festival 5 in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos

According to Wallen:
This piece is dedicated to my young grandson, Louis Wallen. I was inspired by watching him at play, as well as by seeing Margaret Leng Tan perform in New York last autumn and by the happy afternoon we spent in her Brooklyn home discussing the forthcoming piece over toy pianos and pecan pie.

Listening to Margaret play, I was aware of the similarity in the action of the toy piano to the harpsichord and I decided to revisit one of my long-neglected loves - the French Clavecin School - and, in this particular instance, Louis Couperin (1626-1661). I wanted to write a piece for Margaret that combined playfulness with virtuosity. Absorbed into Louis' Loops are snippets of three dance pieces of Couperin's - Courante, Sarabande en Canon, and Canaries. Considering the title I wonder if I was also thinking subconsciously of the brilliant mathematician's mind of Louis' father and my cousin, Lincoln Wallen. Anyhow, this is for you, Louis - across three centuries.
- Errollyn Wallen


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Artist/Composer: Errollyn Wallen & Margaret Leng Tan
Date: 1999-03-25 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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