{"id":505,"date":"2009-05-12T07:41:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/?page_id=505"},"modified":"2010-07-29T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:07:36","slug":"uncaged-toy-piano-cd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/bio\/uncaged-toy-piano-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"UnCaged Toy Piano CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review from the <a href=\"http:\/\/newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6263\">New Music Box<\/a> (February 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Review from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=43:204877~T1\">All Music Guide<\/a> (March 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Review from <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_7533\/is_201007\/ai_n54364044\/?tag=content;col1\">Fanfare<\/a> (July 2010)<\/p>\n<p>UnCaged Toy Piano is a unique avant-garde\/classical album featuring hand-picked new works written specifically for the toy piano. All of these pieces have inhabited a big part of my musical life for the last seven years.\u00c2\u00a0 The toy piano became a serious concert instrument starting from John Cage&#8217;s seminal work,&#8221;Suite for Toy Piano&#8221; written in 1948. East Broadway and Mirabella were written for the great new music pianist, Margaret Leng Tan. I discovered Exposiciones and Kalimba at the Extensible Toy Piano Project in 2005 and have been touring with these pieces since then.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-416\" title=\"cdcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdcover-270x253.png\" alt=\"cdcover\" width=\"270\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdcover-270x253.png 270w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdcover-540x506.png 540w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdcover.png 1818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>track listing: 1. <strong>Mirabella a tarantella<\/strong> for toy piano by Stephen Montague<br \/>\n2. <strong>Exposiciones<\/strong> for toy piano and CD by Andrian Pertout<br \/>\n3. <strong>Kalimba<\/strong> for toy piano and CD by Karlheinz Essl<br \/>\n4-8. <strong>Suite for Toy Piano<\/strong> by John Cage<br \/>\n9. <strong>East Broadway<\/strong> for toy piano and toy boombox by Julia Wolfe<br \/>\n10. <strong>Memoirist part 1 &#8220;The Tale&#8221;<\/strong> for toy piano, frying pan, music box by Phyllis Chen<br \/>\n11. <strong>Memoirist part 3 &#8220;The Dream&#8221;<\/strong> for toy piano and bowls<\/p>\n<p>[media id=16 width=270 height=20]<\/p>\n<p>This debut album was recorded at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn on three different toy pianos. Many people have asked me what happened to Part 2 of &#8220;The Memoirist.&#8221; This section is mostly a film soundtrack. To view\/listen to this track, please visit the &#8220;Look&#8221; page and click on &#8220;Memoirist Part II.&#8221; I cannot express how amazing it has been for me to discover the full range and expression of the toy piano.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has been buying my CD! After selling my CD on amazon,itunes and CDbaby, I&#8217;ve decided to get rid of the middle man and sell them independently from my own home. If you would like to purchase a copy, please email me at p<strong>hyllis@iceorg.org<\/strong> and I will send you a copy! Please subject the email as <strong>CD order. <\/strong>My CD is being sold for $12 (free shipping).<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/search2.downtownmusicgallery.com\/lookup.cgi?item=2009_04_30_18_12_37\" target=\"_blank\">preview\/description<\/a> of the CD written by Bruce Lee Gallanter from the Downtown Music Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review from the New Music Box (February 2010) Review from the All Music Guide (March 2010) Review from Fanfare (July 2010) UnCaged Toy Piano is a unique avant-garde\/classical album featuring hand-picked new works written specifically for the toy piano. All of these pieces have inhabited a big part of my musical life for the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}