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Asphalt Orchestra performs at The Invisible Dog as part of the Crossing the Line Festival

The FIRST EVER Bang on a Can Marathon in Philadelphia
Sept. 12 - 10 HOURS of LIVE MUSIC!
2pm- Midnight
Co-presented by: Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and World Café Live

For the first time in Bang on a Can history, the incomparable super-mix of genre defying music that is the Marathon travels to Philadelphia! On Sunday, September 12, a mass of musicians, composers, and listeners from all over the world will descend on the World Café Live as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival for 10 HOURS of uninterrupted, ear-bending, border-crossing music from around the corner and around the globe.

2pm:
So Percussion performing Drumming Part 1, composed by Steve Reich
SIGNAL conducted by Brad Lubman performing Shelter, composed by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, with film by Bill Morrison, libretto by Deborah Artman, and projections by Laurie Olinder
Asphalt Orchestra performing Carlton, composed by STEW & Heidi Rodewald, and The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers, composed by Charles Mingus

4pm:
Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra - TBC, composed by Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra
Uri Caine with Ralph Alessi & Jim Black, TBC, composed by Uri Caine
Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Music from Shadowbang, composed by Evan Ziporyn, and Stroking Piece #1, composed by Thurston Moore
The Crossing performing Epic Text & Statements, composed by Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen and Villarosa Sarialdi, composed by Thomas Jennefelt

6pm:
Asphalt Orchestra performing Electric Red, composed by Meshuggah and Hyper Ballad, composed by Bjork
So Percussion performing Threads, composed by Paul Lansky
Normal Love performing I Heard You Can See Baltimore from up there*, and Electrolytes in the Brine*, composed by Normal Love
The Crossing performing Gloria (Everywhere), composed by Kamran Ince

8pm
Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Workers Union, composed by Louis Andriessen
Asphalt Orchestra performing Zomby Woof, composed by Frank Zappa, Pulse March, composed by Tyondai Braxton; and Champagne, composed by Goran Bregovic
Sun Ra Arkestra, TBC, composed by Sun Ra
Todd Reynolds performing Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites, composed by Annie Gosfield

10pm
Keepers of the Chaos, TBC, composed by Jamaaldeen Tacuma/G. Calvin Weston
Matmos, TBC, composed by Matmos
Matmos & So Percussion , performing selections from Treasure State, composed by Matmos & So Percussion
Bang on a Can All-Stars & Kyaw Kyaw Naing performing selections from Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing, composed by Kyaw Kyaw Naing

SET TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

*World Premiere

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Bang on a Can and the Noguchi Museum co-host Music in the Garden, an innovative series held on the second Sunday of every month from June to September in the Museum's celebrated outdoor sculpture garden.

Free with Museum admission: $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID. Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org

Stronghold, for 8 double basses (performed by Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band)
LAD, for 9 bagpipes (performed solo with accompanying pre-recorded bagpipes by Matthew Welch)
Dig Deep, for string quartet (performed by the JACK Quartet

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Bang on a Can All-Stars & Gamelan Salukat
Music by Evan Ziporyn
Libretto by Paul Schick (based on the memoir of Colin McPhee)
Directed by Jay Scheib

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Bang on a Can All-Stars & Gamelan Salukat
Music by Evan Ziporyn
Libretto by Paul Schick (based on the memoir of Colin McPhee)
Directed by Jay Scheib

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Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Fred Frith: Snakes and Ladders
Louis Andriessen: Life, with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam
David Lang: sunray
Brian Eno: Music for Airports 2/2
Michael Nyman: Manhatta, with film by Paul Strand (arr. Andy Keenan)

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Bang on a Can Plays Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood
NY Counterpoint
2x5 (US PREMIERE)
Electric Counterpoint
Double Sextet

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Bang on a Can Plays Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood
NY Counterpoint
2x5
Electric Counterpoint
Double Sextet

Program TBC