Discover a breathtaking book of medieval sacred music nearly lost to time. Recorded by a single scribe, but composed by many, the 15th-century Old Hall choir book was lost for nearly 400 years and is now a treasured source of English music from the era. It finds new life with the singers of Trio Mediæval, who are beautifully accompanied by Catalina Vicens on the hand-blown organetto. New works by Vicens and celebrated composers Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen and David Lang complement this rich, historic repertoire.

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 is held in conjunction with the exhibition Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston (on view through March 30, 2025).

Ticket includes museum admission

Presented by Death of Classical:
“We at Death of Classical have never repeated a program before, but last December’s performances of David Lang’s heartbreaking, Pulitzer-winning little match girl passion by Ekemeles were so soul-blastingly beautiful and transfixingly transcendent, that we decided we’re going to do it every year from now on.”

December 4, 5, and 6
Two shows daily at 7p and 8:30p

National Philharmonic Hall

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.

In 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City caught fire. 146 clothing workers died in the blaze – most of them immigrant women and children who perished in dangerous, inhuman working conditions. Their story is told in Fire in my mouth, a large-scale oratorio for orchestra and female voices by composer and Bang On a Can member Julia Wolfe.

Since retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Alex Zhang Hungtai has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, free jazz, and his new role as a composer of soundtracks for film. His latest musical output predominantly works with saxophone, synthesizers, percussion, and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality. Solo output aside, he is also a member of an experimental trio with Portuguese musicians David Maranha and Gabriel Ferrandini, based in Lisbon. Zhang currently lives in Los Angeles and is also working as an actor in independent films.

Mei Semones 

Mei Semones’s sweetly evocative blend of jazz, bossa nova, and math-y indie rock is not only a way for her to find solace in her favorite genres, but is an intuitive means of catharsis. “Blending everything that I like together and trying to make something new—that’s what feels most natural to me,” says the 23-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. On her newest EP and Bayonet Records debut Kabutomushi, Semones’s diverse sonic palette adds depth to her experiences of the complexities of love. Through the EP’s five songs, she chronicles infatuation, devotion, vulnerability, and saying goodbye in some of her closest relationships, complete with sweeping strings, virtuosic guitar-playing and heartfelt lyrics sung in both English and Japanese. teamwass.com/music/artists/mei-semones

Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present LOUD Weekend  – a fully loaded, 3-day, eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental and electronic music.

Tickets are on sale now!

LOUD Weekend kicks off Thursday, August 1 at 7:30pm with Duet Behavior, featuring legendary composer-vocalist Meredith Monk and percussionist John Hollenbeck — an intimate evening of Monk’s music combining her pioneering vocal magic with Hollenbeck’s inventive and masterful percussion. Highlights of the weekend include MEMORY GAME featuring Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble with the electric Bang on a Can All-Stars, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser’s variation of Terry Riley’s minimalist manifesto In C, Queens College Gamelan Yowana Sari performing a new work by Michael Gordon, Tristan Perich’s Dual Synthesis for 1-bit electronics and harpsichord, GEORGE (Anna Webber, Aurora Nealand, Chiquita Magic, John Hollenbeck), HxH (Chris Williams and Lester St. Louis), Lainie Fefferman’s one-woman band White Fire, visiting guest composers Huang Ruo, Marcos Balter, Mathew Rosenblum, Annika Socolofsky, Jeffery Brooks, and much more.

Bang on a Can, our special guest faculty John Schaefer and Terrance McKnight, and 6 writers in the early stages of their careers will gather at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA) to explore the role of criticism and journalism in today’s dynamic contemporary music scene.

The aim of the workshop is to help writers generate a vocabulary, syntax, and context that is most useful for readers/ listeners and to make modern music and criticism more accessible, welcoming, and exciting to all audiences.

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a 3-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. The program includes public performances in the galleries and in the North Adams community (schedule to be announced), and also LOUD Weekend, Aug 1-3.

Kamran Sadeghi

Kamran Sadeghi creates at the intersections of music, interdisciplinary art, and curation, utilizing multi-channel composition, moving image, and architecture alongside customized software, modular synthesis, transducers, and field recordings. Born in Iran and raised in the United States, Sadeghi emerged from Seattle’s live experimental music scene in 2005, sharing stages with Tim Hecker, William Basinski, and Vladislav Delay. While touring with the contemporary dance company Zoe Juniper in 2009, Sadeghi relocated to New York City with one foot in Europe, working for Morton Subotnick and the multi-channel Sound Art gallery Diapason, while also performing at venues such as Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia (Phil Niblock’s loft), and The Stone. His credits include collaborations with Patti Smith, Sasha Waltz, Jean-Luc Godard, and Zimoun, released on labels such as Vinyl Factory, Sacred Bones, Superpang, Apollo Records, LINE, and Sternberg Press. Sadeghi’s performances, soundtracks, and installations have been featured at venues and events worldwide, including Kraftwerk Berlin, the Louvre Museum, HKW, CTM Festival, Funkhaus Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Berghain, and the Berlin Biennale. kamransadeghi.com

David Grubbs and Wendy Eisenberg

Guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs go head-to-head in a rare meeting of these two mercurial and influential musicians.

Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, tenor banjo, computer, synthesizer, and voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Bill Orcutt, Caroline Davis, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Allison Miller.

David Grubbs has released fifteen solo albums and was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait. He has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Susan Howe, Will Oldham, the Red Krayola, and many others.

PROGRAM

Julia WOLFE: Her Story
FAURÉ: Requiem

ARTISTS

François López-Ferrer, conductor
Lorelei Ensemble
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

PROGRAM:

Michael GORDON: Natural History
Julia WOLFE: Anthracite Fields

ARTISTS:

Teddy Abrams, conductor
Steiger Butte Singers of Chiloquin, Oregon
Bang on a Can All-Stars
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

May 18: Anthems  (link to Live Stream)
Julia WOLFE: All that breathes (May Festival Commission; World Premiere)
David LANG: the national anthems
Julia WOLFE: Pretty
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Dona nobis pacem

Featuring:
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone
May Festival Chorus
May Festival Youth Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Featuring 50+ concerts , Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Public Records, BRIC, and The Space at Irondale.

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At the same time that artists such as Marta Minujín and her New York Pop Art contemporaries were challenging the art establishment of the 1960s, there were also composers using ideas from popular culture to take on the institutions of serious music. With “Bang on a Can All-Stars Play Philip Glass,” a program including Glass’s iconic late 1960s works Music in 5ths and Two Pages, the All-Stars play music that reflects the time and ideals of Pop Art—experimental versus classical, high versus low—the time Minujín first broke into New York and ideals that remain evident in her work today.

This event is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!

Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth for orchestra and choir will be performed in Sweden by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor), Göteborgs Symfoniska Damkör, and Damer ur Göteborgs Symfonikers Vokalensemble.

The Jewish Museum and Bang on a Can present a concert celebrating the works of Layla and Mounir Mourad, the Egyptian Jewish musical legends. Layla Mourad was one of the most important singers during the golden age of Arabic music and prolific composers for Arabic language film in the mid-1900s. Her music remains popular and influential across the Middle East to this day. Mourad, who came from a notable musical family, sang and starred in some of the most classic and celebrated films in Egyptian history. Her brother, Mounir Mourad was also a renowned actor and composer whose music, featured in this program, incorporated a modern, jazzy sound along with a conservative Arabic rhythm. This concert honors their lives, legacies and their family’s important contribution to Egyptian music along with their continued impact on the music scene in Cairo. This event is presented in conjunction with the current Jewish Museum exhibition Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars join Kronos Quartet in their Five Decade Celebration!!

Kronos Quartet welcomes a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of guest artists and ensembles to celebrate its 50th anniversary. This special concert includes a short film by award-winning documentarian Sam Green; the New York premieres of Carnegie Hall co-commissioned works by Michael Gordon and Gabriella Smith; and an extraordinary new “Sunrise Jam” version of Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector for 50 musicians. With Special Guests Laurie Anderson, Jake Blount, Brian Carpenter, Tanya Tagaq, Wu Man, Aizuri Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Sō Percussion.

Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present For Living Lovers, a duo with guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Stomu Takeishi.

Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi are both longtime veterans of New York City’s creative music scene. Over the course of their long collaboration, the duo have developed a unique dialogue and timbral language for guitar and bass. For Living Lovers’s music poses questions—physical, philosophical, and sonic—all while inviting the listener to participate in an intimate conversation.

Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME
Performed by Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble and the Bang on a Can All-Stars

MEMORY GAME is both a look back at a pivotal point in Meredith Monk’s storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music—under the guidance of an indefatigable master—can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways.

Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present a double bill by cellist Issei Herr and drummer/producer Matt Evans at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.

LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is a fully loaded, three-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental and unusual music taking place throughout the museum’s vast galleries and its stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues.

LOUD Weekend kicks off  with Love in Exile – featuring Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily plus Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena. Highlights of the weekend include multiple concerts by the singular legendary Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Klang (from Holland), Theo Bleckmann, Jeff Zeigler; visiting composers Andy Akiho, Nicole Lizée, Pete Harden, David Sanford, Joan Tower, performers and composers from the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, and much more.

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Leading up to a LOUD Weekend finale, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the incredible MASS MoCA galleries. Gallery concerts are free with museum admission, performed on some weekdays at 1:30pm and 4:30pm.

• Friday, July 14 – Ghanaian Drumming (festival participants)
• Monday, July 17 – Mark Stewart with the Gunnar Schonbeck instruments
• Wednesday, July 19 – Vicky Chow
• Friday, July 21 – Todd Reynolds
• Monday, July 24 – Gregg August plus festival ensembles
• Wednesday, July 26 – Short New Works by the festival composers

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a 3-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. Thirty early career composers and performers will gather to create, rehearse, and perform new music in the gallery and performing arts spaces, as well as in the North Adams community. The residency culminates in a 3-day festival: LOUD Weekend!

Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up for Percussion Quartet at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.

Drummer and composer Tomas Fujiwara’s “Dream Up,” is a suite for percussion quartet, featuring vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe, percussionist Tim Keiper, and Fujiwara on drums.

Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present tombstar at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.

tombstar is a new ensemble comprising improvisers, composer-performers, and interdisciplinary artists from Brooklyn and Detroit who explore the collective subconscious through improvisation, composition, and joyful experimentation.

The Dingonek Street Band will perform three FREE sets (at 6 pm, 7 pm, and 8 pm) outside the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue as part of the Museum Mile Festival.

Dingonek Street Band is a Brooklyn-based brass band dedicated to human culture and sonic adventure. Built on the celebratory energy and raw spontaneity of the second-line brass band tradition, Dingonek has created a funky, high-energy party music all its own by absorbing and reworking elements of Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz, punk rock, free jazz, and Balkan brass music.

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble in Julia Wolfe’s Her Story, a new work that captures the passion and perseverance of women who have led the fight for representation and gender equality. A 40-minute theatrical experience, the piece is the latest in a series of compositions by Wolfe that highlights monumental and turbulent moments in American history.

Sara Serpa’s distinctive new trio presents a contemporary approach in writing for the voice, challenging traditional roles and highlighting pristine textures in jazz and improvisational music. Never losing track of the common bond that brings these musicians together, Serpa features two extremely innovative improvisers, Erik Friedlander and Ingrid Laubrock, who have a precise sound and particular musical personalities. Collectively, they create a detailed and exposed portrait of her musical world, featuring wordless compositions and texts by Virginia Woolf, Luce Irigaray and Ruy Bello in concert echoing the movement of people and art across borders central to the museum’s current exhibition The Sassoons.

Long Play Festival is Bang on a Can’s Supercharged Musical Ride through Right Now

 50+ concerts throughout Brooklyn, New York

Long Play showcases a dense network of innovative music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at Pioneer Works, Roulette, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Public Records, Littlefield, BRIC, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more.

This event is part of the Long Play Festival

Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME, as its title implies, is both a look back at a pivotal point in her storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music, under the guidance of an indefatigable master, can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways.

Meredith teams up for a live performance in NYC with her renowned Vocal Ensemble (featuring Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin) and  the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble in Julia Wolfe’s Her Story, a new work that captures the passion and perseverance of women who have led the fight for representation and gender equality. A 40-minute theatrical experience, the piece is the latest in a series of compositions by Wolfe that highlights monumental and turbulent moments in American history.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars, along with Bang on a Can’s artistic directors and founders, Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, celebrate the work of bassist Robert Black, a founding member of the All-Stars, who is retiring from his Hartt faculty position after 29 years.

Program:
David Lang – Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon – I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe – Believing
George Lewis – Float, Sting
Meredith Monk – Spaceship
Philip Glass – Closing
Thurston Moore – Stroking Piece #1

The Bang on a Can All-Stars a high octane set of works by contemporary composers to Eau Claire Wisconsin.

Program:
David Lang – Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon – I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe – Believing
George Lewis – float sting
Meredith Monk – Spaceship
Philip Glass – Closing
Thurston Moore – Stroking Piece #1

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Bang on a Can brings the Marathon concert to Colombia!

The Marathon in Bogotá will feature the Bang on a Can All-Stars alongside an incredibly diverse and amazing lineup of Colombian composers and performers. The concert features many different ensembles and soloists from different musical and cultural backgrounds including classical, jazz, and traditional Colombian and American traditions.

Conference: “Bang on a Can: in search of other music”

The founding composers of Bang on a Can will talk about how their music connects with other communities, other instruments and other stories.

1:00p  “David Lang: Other Communities” David Lang talks about how his compositions and large-scale public works invite diverse communities and voices “untrained” into the world of musical creation.

2:30p “Michael Gordon: Other Instruments” Michael Gordon talks about timbre and the search for new instruments made with common materials.

4:00p “Julia Wolfe: Other Stories” Julia Wolfe talks about the weaving of storytelling, legends and the history of work in her oratorios Steel Hammer and Anthracite Fields.

Seats are limited. Prior registration must be made at the following link: https://forms.gle/RiwT8UKKNziPzgFu6

Bang on a Can All-Stars perform ROAD TRIP, by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform their “Classics” in Bogota, Colombia

Program:
David Lang: Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
George Lewis: float, sting
Meredith Monk: Spaceship from The Games
Philip Glass: Closing from Glassworks

The All-Stars perform a reading of new works by Colombian composers Andrés Felipe Poveda, Juan Manuel Jaramillo, Jesús Buendia Puyo, as well as give a lecture/demonstration including works by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. This is a free event.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform their “Classics” in Medellin, Colombia

Program:
David Lang: Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
George Lewis: float, sting
Meredith Monk: Spaceship from The Games
Philip Glass: Closing from Glassworks

Free with registration

Live music and dance on film! CAN DANCE is the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ newest show is a seamless integration of cutting-edge music, revolutionary dance, and film. Nine extraordinary choreographers have been commissioned to create dance/films to music written for and performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Live music and dance on film! CAN DANCE is the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ newest show is a seamless integration of cutting-edge music, revolutionary dance, and film. Nine extraordinary choreographers have been commissioned to create dance/films to music written for and performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Conductor Marin Alsop leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in three pivotal works by 21st-century women composers including Her Story, a CSO co-commission by Julia Wolfe that captures the passion and perseverance of women who have led the fight for representation and gender equality. A 40-minute theatrical experience for orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble, the piece is the latest in a series of compositions by Wolfe that highlights monumental and turbulent moments in American history.

Morton Feldman’s For John Cage

Towards the end of his life, Feldman wrote several “tribute” pieces to people who had been important to him among them, For John Cage (1982), and it has become one of Feldman’s most well-known pieces. For John Cage will be performed by Karl Larson on piano and Erica Dicker, violin in conjunction with the exhibition New York: 1962-1964.

Artist and composer Rajna Swaminathan presents RAJAS, an ensemble of improvisers from diverse musical approaches exploring expansive, boundary-breaking music in conjunction with the exhibition New York: 1962-1964. For this performance, Rajna (mrudangam) will be joined by Ganavya (voice), Utsav Lal (piano), Darian Donovan Thomas (violin), and Miles Okazaki (guitar).

Miriam Elhajli is an interdisciplinary improviser questioning along the fringes of song, folklore, and eco-poetics, living between Brooklyn and New Orleans. She works as an archivist at the Association for Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax & is currently producing various records to be released on her independent label Numina Records dedicated to documenting revolutionary women, song and poetics.

Free with admission; advance reservations recommended. Masks are required inside the Museum.

Cutting-edge cellist Maya Beiser and “America’s most astonishing choir” (The New York Times), The Crossing, form a fearless partnership to present Travel Guide to Nicaragua, a New York premiere by Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon. The evening-length work, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, tells the story of Gordon’s family’s journey from Poland to Nicaragua, beginning with his grandfather and concluding with Gordon’s childhood in the jungle on the outskirts of Managua.

Bang on a Can and Joe Hisaishi Company co-present Music Future Vol.9!

Program:

Joe Hisaishi: 2 Dances for Large Ensemble,* performed by the Bang on a Can Festival Ensemble

Nico Muhly: Selections from Drones & Viola and Drones & Piano, performed by Nadia Sirota, viola, and Nico Muhly, piano/drones

Nico Muhly: Roots, Pulses,* performed by the Bang on a Can Festival Ensemble

Joe Hisaishi:  Viola Saga,* performed by Nadia Sirota, viola, and the Bang on a Can Festival Ensemble

*US premiere

Bang on a Can’s special discount code for half-price tickets is: MFD39879

Bang on a Can LIVE ONLINE Presents:
Armando Bayolo: Memorias Vagabundas, a World Premiere Commission of 11 Pianists, organized by Vicky Chow (Bang on a Can All-Stars)

On November 3, Bang on a Can brings you a world premiere video suite from All-Star Vicky Chow and Armando Bayolo, exploring Bayolo’s biography, evoking ancestral Spain, parental Cuba, native Puerto Rico and his life in the United States.

Featuring performances by: Vicky Chow, Geoffrey Burleson, Mikael Darmanie, Erika Dohi, Timothy Hoft, Blair McMillen, Megumi Masaki, Michael Mizrahi, Winston Choi, Vicki Ray, Ju-Ping Song

Between 27th and 29th October, the magnificent RDM Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam will be the backdrop for a spectacular performance fusing music and contemporary dance. The BIG IDEA Foundation has invited Sasha Waltz & Guests, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and a large company of emerging Rotterdam artists to perform a gigantic version of Terry Riley’s “In C”.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars are performing in Bruges!

Program:

Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary
Meredith Monk: Spaceship (arr. Michael Gordon)
Julius Eastman: Stay On It (arr. Ed Rosenberg III and Ken Thomson)
Brian Eno: Music for Airports

(photo of the All-Stars by Peter Serling)

This performance has been postponed – stay tuned for the new date coming up!

Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME, as its title implies, is both a look back at a pivotal point in her storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music, under the guidance of an indefatigable master, can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways.

Meredith teams up for a live performance in NYC with her renowned Vocal Ensemble (featuring Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin) and  the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

In the outdoor sculpture garden, Ned Rothenberg will present original and traditional solo work for shakuhachi, the end blown Japanese bamboo flute. He will also perform works on the clarinet and alto saxophone, which are informed by his travels back and forth to Japan throughout the last 35 years.

Free with admission; advance reservations recommended. Masks are required inside the Museum.

Photo of Ned by Lois Ellison

The world premiere of HER STORY, by Julia Wolfe!

Performed by Lorelei Ensemble and the Nashville Symphony

Her Story invokes the words of historical figures and the spirit of pivotal moments to pay tribute to the centuries of ongoing struggle for equal rights, representation, and access to democracy for women in America.

The immersive, visual performances will be directed by Anne Kauffman with scenic and lighting design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan, and produced by Bang on a Can.

Her Story was Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the National Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony and with the generous support of Linda and Stuart Nelson.