Twinkle Dammit

In 1971 Margaret Leng Tan was the first woman to earn a Doctorate degree from the Juilliard School Since then her fivedecade career has made the musician a figurehead of avantgarde 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 avantgarde composers of his era Twinkle Dammit gives access to the rarelyseen creative process between two musical geniuses peeling back the publicfacing surface of the worlds greatest toypianovirtuoso to explore the private obsessions that have lead to a life committed to the avantgarde