Summer Festival
2008 Performance Calendar
July 10, 2008
01:30pm - Bang on a Can Summer Festival - MASS MoCA
Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present their 7th consecutive year of musical collaboration with a rich daily schedule of exciting performances. There will be 2 recitals daily in the museum galleries (except Sundays), free with museum admission.
Thurs July 10
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Evan Ziporyn, composer and clarinets
Fri July 11
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Vicki Ray, pianist, performs works by Shaun Naidoo, Peter Ablinger, Oliver Messaien and more
Sat July 12
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by Brad Lubman, Pauline Oliveros, and Evan Ziporyn
Mon July 14
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Todd Reynolds, violin
Tues July 15
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: composer/performer Ken Thomson, clarinets and friends
Weds July 16
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Gregg August, bass
Thurs July 17
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: TBA
8:00 pm Members of Bang on a Can featured on the “Third Thursday” festival in downtown Pittsfield, MA. Free.
Friday July 18
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: world premieres of 4 works written and performed by festival fellows.
7:00 pm Members of Bang on a Can perform a free concert at Gallery 51 in downtown North Adams
Sat, July 19
11:00am “Kids can Too” family performance
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Balinese Gamelan led by Christine Southworth
8:00 pm Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guest Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Also featuring a world premiere by Todd Reynolds. (Click here to purchase tickets
Mon July 21
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: world premieres of 4 works written and performed by festival fellows.
Tues July 22
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: festival improvisation ensembles perform
Weds July 23
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: TBA
7:00 pm Members of Bang on a Can perform a free concert at Windsor Lake in North Adams
Thurs July 24
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Festival ensemble performs works by Phil Kline, Lou Harrison and more.
Fri July 25
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: festival composers improvise.
Sat July 26
4:00 pm – 10:00 pm Bang on a Can Marathon with Special guest Terry Riley
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SCHEDULE (Set times are approximate, program subject to change):
| Time | Composer | Work |
| 4pm | Judd Greenstein | Get Up/Get Down |
| Lois V Vierk | Timberline | |
| Terry Riley | Woelfli Portraits | |
| Sean Francis Conway | Didgeridoo and Percussion Trio | |
| Christopher Adler | Ecstatic Volutions in the Neon Haze | |
| 6pm | Morton Feldman | The O'Hara Songs |
| Ken Thomson | Seasonal Disorder | |
| Iannis Xenakis | N'Shima | |
| Terry Riley | Olson III | |
| 8pm | Traditional (arr Wayan Loceng) | Sekar Ginotan (Balinese gamelan gender wayang) |
| Evan Ziporyn | Cu (Ba Li) Bre (Balinese gamelan gender wayang) | |
| Donald Crockett | Whistling in the Dark | |
| Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang | Shelter with texts by Deborah Artman, films by Bill Morrison, and Projections by Laurie Olinder of Ridge Theater | |
| Terry Riley | Improvisation | |
| Frank Zappa | The Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat and G-Spot Tornado |
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