Fall 2022 Concert Series: 22nd Annual Toy Piano Festival

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22nd Annual Toy Piano Festival

Scott Paulson, Festival Director

Featuring Sue Palmer, Kay Etheridge, Christian Hertzog, Nadiyah Albee, Kenneth Herman, Barbara Scheidker, and Satomi Saito 

In partnership with UC San Diego Library

 

American composer John Cage‘s birthday is fast approaching and that means that the Annual Toy Piano Festival will make a special stop at the Neil Morgan Auditorium. An impressive roster of accomplished local musicians and composers will premiere new works for toy piano.  The fest has become a family favorite, and all ages are welcome. In addition to exciting modern fare, some famous musical clock tunes from centuries past will give a timely nod to composers of earlier eras.

 

Cage was the first composer to write a "serious" piece for toy piano. Cage guest lectured at UC San Diego when Scott Paulson was a UCSD undergraduate.  "John Cage’s approach to music made quite an impression on me as a young student. Cage’s toy piano sonata is just one of the many surprising, long-lasting feats of magic from this great American composer. Somehow, I‘m still hosting an Annual Toy Piano Festival in tribute to him!"

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