Peter Serling
Stephanie Berger
Applications for the 2025 Summer Festival at MASS MoCA are online now!
Applications for the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival are online now!
Dec 12th: Bang on a Can All-Stars play Julia Wolfe at National Sawdust
LIVE AT NATIONAL SAWDUST // DOORS AT 6:30PM // SHOW AT 7:30PM December 12, 2024 7:30 pm
Program – music by Julia Wolfe
Lick (10′)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (9′)
Reeling (6′)
Flower Power (preview) (30′)
The electric Bang on a Can All-Stars play an intimate concert of music by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe – a set of new, recent, and ‘classic’ works featuring Wolfe’s signature combination of driving rock energy and minimalist serenity. Join Bang on a Can and National Sawdust for this end-of-year holiday hang as the All-Stars offer a sneak-preview of Wolfe’s Flower Power and more. Limited seating!
Dec 5th, Jewish Museum: Dither Quartet plays Julius Eastman and Morton Feldman
Thursday, December 5, 2024
7:30 – 9 pm EST
Scheuer Auditorium
The William Petschek Family Music Program
How can the idea of a ‘cartoon’ translate into musical form? A sketch, an outline, a simplification that gives that sense that not all the details are filled in–these are all formal ideas that suggest how music might model cartoon-nature. Two composers who experimented their entire lives with leaving out important details are Julius Eastman (1940–1990) and Morton Feldman (1926–1987). Their works, Gay Guerilla by Eastman and Piece for Four Pianos by Feldman, both leave important details to the players to decide, and in this evening of world premiere arrangements, the players deciding are Brooklyn-based guitar ensemble Dither Quartet.
This concert, co-presented with Bang on a Can is held in conjunction with the exhibition Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston (November 8, 2024 – March 30, 2025).
Tickets: $22 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum members
Doors open at 7 pm; Includes Museum Admission
David Lang wins NYPhil Kravis Prize!
Congrats to David Lang for his recent win of the NY Philharmonic’s Kravis Prize! And also, we are so happy for the co-winner, Missy Mazzoli, who attended our inaugural summer music festival in 2002!
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