Bang on a Can Marathon

@ NYU Skirball Center
Sunday, May 13, 2018, 12-10pm
10 hours of FREE Live Music!

Bang on a Can returns to downtown Manhattan with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world! The 2018 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature 10 hours of rare performances by some of the most innovative musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s most pioneering young artists.

Here’s the schedule! (set times are approximate)

12pm

• Galina Ustvolskaya’s Symphony #No. 2, performed by NYU Contemporary EnsembleRobert Osborne, voice, David Friend, piano, Johathan Haas, music director
• Stephin Merritt (of Magnetic Fields), with Sam Davol
• Michael Gordon’s Sonatra, performed by Vicky Chow, piano
• Dylan Mattingly’s Stranger Love, Act I: JUBILEE (excerpt), performed by Contemporaneous

2pm

• Gabriella Smith’s Panitao, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Brendon Randall-Myers’ changes, stops, and swells (for b)* performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Fjóla Evans’s Eroding* performed by Contemporaneous
• Alex Weiser’s and all the days were purple (excerpts), performed by Purple Ensemble
• Val Jeanty & Ravish Momin: new works from the EP “Which Way is Home?” performed by Turning Jewels Into Water: Val Jeanty (turntables, electronics) & Ravish Momin (electronic drums)

4pm

• Jeffrey Brooks’s After the Treewatcher, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars & Contemporaneous, David Bloom conductor
• Jeffrey Brooks’s Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother* performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars & Contemporaneous
• Tom Chiu’s RETROCON,* performed by FLUX Quartet
• Mazz Swift & Therese Workman’s Revolution:House, performed by Mazz Swift: violin, voice, synth & Therese Workman: voice, synth
• Jeffrey Brooks’s The Passion,* performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars & Contemporaneous, David Bloom conductor

6pm

• Nicole Lizée’s White Label Experiment**, performed by Sō Percussion
• Aleksandra Vrebalov’s Logbook, Part II, performed by ETHEL
• Jessie Montgomery’s Voodoo Dolls, performed by ETHEL
• Julia Wolfe’s Blue Dress for String Quartet, performed by ETHEL
• Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars & Eric Berryman, voice

8pm

• Xenia Rubinos & Marco Buccelli perform Songs from Magic Trix and Black Terry Cat
• David Lang’s the day, performed by Maya Beiser, cello & Kate Valk, voice
• Terry Riley’s Autodreamographical Tales & Science Fiction, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars & Terry Riley, voice

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