Stephanie Berger
All-Stars play Sakamoto in Portugal
– June 20 and 22
The All-Stars perform the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto in Portugal in June!
Ryuichi Sakamoto “was arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world.” (Peter Tasker, Nikkei Asia) Now Bang on a Can All-Stars offer their realization of the album 1996 (arranged by the All-Stars’ multi-talented clarinetist-composer Ken Thomson) — which includes an incredible selection of many of Sakamoto’s greatest hits.
June 20 – Braga, Teatro Circo
June 22 – Lisbon, Sintra Festival
Michael Gordon world premiere at Met Cloisters
– June 27-28
Sound and movement animate the glorious halls, gardens, and medieval archways of The Met Cloisters in Michael Gordon‘s The Forest of Metal Objects, a newly commissioned site-specific work. Created in collaboration with the renowned choreographer-directors Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson, this vibrant procession for sixteen percussionists and six actors features a unique sonic landscape of cymbals, gongs, vibraphones, and specially tuned sheets of aluminum. Join us to see (and hear) The Met Cloisters transformed like never before!
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is July 31-Aug 2
LOUD Weekend – where renowned special guests, Bang on a Can faculty, and young players perform throughout MoCA’s campus in a series of playful and heady collisions of jazz, classical, rock, and beyond.
Fueled by more than three decades of marathon concerts, Long Play Festival in Brooklyn and countless world tours and staged productions, Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is a fully loaded, three-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental, and unusual music.
Performers include – Bang on a Can All-Stars, So Percussion, Nathalie Joachim, Steven Schick, Wolf Eyes, DJ Maria Chavez, David Byrd-Marrow, Vicky Chow, David Cossin, Arlen Hlusko, Nick Photinos, Todd Reynolds, Maya Stone, Ken Thomson, and the summer festival performance fellows.
They’ll be playing the music of composers – Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Steve Reich, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jeffrey Brooks, Ted Hearne, Tamar Muskal, Gemma Peacocke, Jason Treuting, Trevor Weston, and the 2025 summer festival composition fellows: Che Buford, Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Rebecca Galian Castello, Stephen Jackson, Jessie Leov, Kyle Rivera, Filippa Westerberg, and Tymon Zgorzelski
Additional artists and details to be announced!
Thank you for coming to Long Play!
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