Twinkle Dammit! (2020)
70 min
In 1971, Margaret Leng Tan was the first woman to earn a Doctorate degree from the Juilliard School. Since then, her five-decade career has made the musician a figurehead of avant-garde music, owing predominantly to her incorporation of the toy piano in her performances. We meet Leng Tan at the age of 71 as she embarks on an iconic collaboration with George Crumb, one of the last remaining avant-garde composers of his era. "Twinkle Dammit!" gives access to the rarely-seen creative process between two musical geniuses, peeling back the public-facing surface of the world's greatest toy-piano-virtuoso to explore the private obsessions that have lead to a life committed to the avant-garde.
- Release date
- September 17, 2020
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Cast
- John Cage as Toy Instrumentalist
- Phyllis Chen as Toy Instrumentalist
- Ann Crumb as Toy Instrumentalist
- Elizabeth Crumb as Toy Instrumentalist
- George Crumb as Self
- Peter Crumb as Toy Instrumentalist
- Nancy Loo as Toy Instrumentalist
- Eiko Otake as Toy Instrumentalist
- Katherine Skovira as Drew University Music Student
- Margaret Leng Tan as Self
Crew
- Chuang Xu · Director
- Ziyu Tang · Producer
- Chuang Xu · Producer
- George Crumb · Composer
- Margaret Leng Tan · Composer
- Ziyu Tang · Cinematographer
- Chuang Xu · Cinematographer
- Chuang Xu · Editor