Summer Festival
Bang on a Can
Summer Music Festival
at MASS MoCA
July 8-27, 2008 Guest artist : Terry Riley
Residency Program for composers and performers
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. We will spend three weeks immersed in recent music that has changed the world. Available studies include Balinese music workshops, improvisation, as well as performance coaching, master classes, music business seminars and more. Composers will have their works performed. Players will perform publicly in ensembles sitting alongside their teachers. There are daily performances in the museum galleries, free and open to the public. And the residency concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles.
The faculty includes some of the most innovative musicians of our time. These are musicians who have dedicated their lives to commissioning, rehearsing, recording and performing music beyond the cutting edge. Our special guest artist for 2008 is legendary composer Terry Riley. He will join us for the last week of the festival.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival will take place July 8 through July 27, 2008 at MASS MoCA, located in North Adams, Massachusetts. MASS MoCA presents exhibitions and performances by renowned artists and cultural institutions, but it also is a place where the process of creativity is explored; rehearsals, art fabrication shops, and production studios are open to public view. Bang on a Can has found a home at MASS MoCA for the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival and is thrilled to work with them in building a bridge between the arts.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival is made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the generous support of the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, LEF Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and NIB Foundation.
Additional funds for the residency of the Bang on a Can All-Stars have been provided by Chamber Music America with support from the Helen F. Whitaker Fund and the Chamber Music America Residency Endowment Fund. Bang on a Can is a member of Chamber Music America.
Concert Pianos provided by Faust Harrison Pianos, 205 West 58th Street, New York City; www.faustharrisonpianos.com.