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.
The Bang on a Can Marathon of Song features 15 performances streamed from musicians’ homes around the country and across the world. For this Marathon, all performances will include some type of vocalization – singing, speaking, murmuring, or other use of the voice.
“Humming, speaking, crooning, shouting, praying, tuneful, harmonized or noisy, we have spun songs since the beginning of our existence. These adventurous composers are redefining what it means to make song, and these powerful performers bring it to life with a myriad of colors and sensibilities.”– Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe
PROGRAM
Michael Abels: Anguish from Falling Sky (world premiere) for Vicky Chow
Joan La Barbara: ad astra… for cellist who sings (world premiere) for Iva Casian-Lakos
Anton Batagov: Chaconne in A minor (world premiere)
Rudresh Mahanthappa: How Was Your Year? (world premiere) for Ken Thomson
Timo Andres: House Calls (world premiere) for David Byrd-Marrow
Leyla McCalla: Meditation #1 (world premiere) for Arlen Hlusko
John Hollenbeck: Persuasion (world premiere) for David Cossin
Carman Moore: STALLION (world premiere) for Robert Black
Kelly Moran: new work (world premiere)
Michael Fiday: Song for Eric (world premiere) for Jeff Anderle
Jonathan Bailey Holland: Subaquatic Meditation (world premiere) for Mark Stewart
Michael Daugherty: Six Riffs after Ovid for solo oboe (world premiere) for Titus Underwood
Soo Yeon Lyuh: See You on the Other Side (world premiere)
New Commissions! On April 18, Bang on a Can presents its 2nd entire marathon of PREMIERES! 15 brand new works by 15 pioneering composers. Tune in to hear 4 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, mind-blowing music.
PROGRAM
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Why Did They Kill Sandra Bland? performed by Arlen Hlusko
Arnold Dreyblatt: Magnetom (2019)
Mazz Swift
Rohan Chander: △ or THE TRAGEDY OF HIKKOMORI LOVELESS from FINAL//FANTASY performed by Vicky Chow
Kristina Wolfe: Listening to the Wind performed by Molly Barth
Miya Masaoka: One String Thing Ding
Aeryn Santillan: disconnect. performed by Ken Thomson
Adam Cuthbert: Aquarian Solstice
Ken Thomson: Birds and Ambulances performed by Robert Black
Tomeka Reid: Lamenting G.F., A.A., B.T., T.M. performed by Vicky Chow
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint performed by Claire Chase
Christina Wheeler: Missing/Still
Molly Joyce: Purity performed by David Cossin
Tyshawn Sorey
Jeffrey Brooks: Santuario performed by Mark Stewart
Moor Mother
Bill Frisell
Bang on a Can partners with Berliner Festspiele to bring you a LIVE ONLINE MARATHON as part of the MaerzMuzik Festival of Time Issues. The concert features a bunch of über-cool artists and pieces we’ve programmed over the past year for further consumption. In previous times we’d have packed up and hauled it all to Deutschland, but now we all can enjoy the Festival for Time Issues in, well, real time, all around the world.
PROGRAM
Jakhongir Shukur: Potter’s Wheel performed by Robert Black
Jennifer Walshe: Happiness Starts Right Now
Maria Huld Markan Sigusdottir: Pending performed by Chi-Chi Nwanoku OBE
Gabriel Kahane: Hollywood & Vine performed by Arlen Hlusko
Gregory Spears: A Distant Ridge of Earth performed by David Byrd-Marrow
Kristina Wolfe: new work performed by Molly Barth
Amir Elsaffar: Thaw for bass clarinet solo, performed by Ken Thomson
Bora Yoon: Postcards from the Pacific
Matthew Shipp: Spaceman’s Blues
Joel Thompson: Supplication and Compensation performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo
Rohan Chander: △ or THE TRAGEDY OF HIKKOMORI LOVELESS from FINAL//FANTASY performed by Vicky Chow
David Cossin: A. C. T.
Eve Beglarian: A Solemn Shyness performed by Lara Downes
Ingrid Laubrock: Inkblots
Molly Herron: Canon No. 4 performed by Maya Stone
Alvin Lucier: Weirs for electric guitar and resonant objects performed by Mark Stewart
New Year! New Hope! New Commissions! On February 21, Bang on a Can presents an entire marathon of PREMIERES! 16 brand new works by 16 pioneering composers. Tune in to hear 4 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, mind-blowing music. Alvin Lucier! Jennifer Walshe! Matthew Shipp! Ingrid Laubrock! Gabriel Kahane! and many many more.
PROGRAM
Alexander Arkincheev, OneBeat Russia – Irkutsk, Russia
Amir El Saffar, OneBeat 2012 – NYC, USA
Dumama & Kechou feat. Hunterchee, OneBeat 2018 – Berlin, Germany | Cape Town, South Africa | NYC, USA
Jinda Kanjo, OneBeat Istanbul – Kobani, Syria
TIGAtrio, OneBeat 2015 – Ng Chor Guan, Jay Afrisando, Daniel de Mendoza – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Minneapolis, USA | Bogotá, Colombia
Kyungso Park, OneBeat 2012 – Seoul, South Korea
Dahlak Brathwaite, OneBeat 2014 – Sacramento, USA
Meng Xi, Jess Tsang, Amy Garapic, OneBeat 2019 – Beijing, China | NYC, USA
Shruti Bhave, OneBeat 2019 – Mumbai, India
LADAMA, OneBeat 2014 & 2015 – Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola, Sara Lucas & Pat Swoboda – Recife, Brazil | Bogotá, Colombia | Barquisimeto, Venezuela | NYC, USA
Asantewa, OneBeat 2016 – Accra, Ghana
Samah Boulmona, OneBeat 2018 – Beirut, Lebanon
Anna RG, OneBeat 2016 – Queens, NY, USA
Peni Candra Rini, OneBeat 2014 – Jakarta, Indonesia
Mustelide, OneBeat 2017 – Minsk, Belarus
Aurora Nealand, OneBeat 2013 – New Orleans, USA
Johanna Amaya Conejo, OneBeat 2017 – Bogotá, Colombia
Biodun Kuti, OneBeat 2013 – Mark Stewart, OneBeat Collaborating Artist – Philadelphia, USA | North Adams, USA
Bang on a Can is excited to present the OneBeat Marathon – Live Online – on Sunday, November 15, 2020 from 12-4pm ET, curated by Found Sound Nation, its social engagement wing. Over four hours the OneBeat Marathon will feature live-streamed multimedia performances by musicians from 14 countries stretching over five continents to transport audiences to a paradigm-bending sonic universe.
PROGRAM
George Crumb: A Little Midnight Music (selections) performed by Susan Grace
Annie Gosfield: Curveballs and Asteroids (world premiere) performed by Ken Thomson
Christina Wheeler: A Coda for the Totality of Blackness Trilogy (world premiere)
Alvin Singleton: Argoru II performed by Seth Parker Woods
Jeffrey Brooks: Santuario (world premiere) performed by Mark Stewart
Mazz Swift
Greg Saunier: John Paul George and Ringo Pry Open the Gates of Hell (world premiere) performed by David Cossin
Gemma Peacocke: Fear of Flying (world premiere) performed by Nathalie Joachim
David Longstreth: (video unavailable)
John Fitz Rogers: Come Closer performed by Michael Harley
William Parker: Hum Spirituals (world premiere)
Leaha Maria Villarreal: The Warmth of Other Suns performed by Andie Tanning
Tyshawn Sorey
Tania León: Paisanos Semos! and Bailarín performed by Jiji
Anna Webber
Christopher Cerrone: Liminal Highway (first 2 mvmts) performed by Tim Munro
Valgier Sigurdsson: Brevis (world premiere) performed by Vicky Chow
Nels Cline & Yuka C. Honda
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Why Did They Kill Sandra Bland? (world premiere) performed by Arlen Hlusko
Du Yun
Krists Auznieks: Arise (world premiere) performed by Robert Black
Bill Frisell
On October 18, from 3-9pm EDT Bang on a Can re-ignites with 6 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, boundary-smashing music. We kick off at 3pm with a special birthday tribute to master composer George Crumb (91 years young!), and close off with a solo sonic adventure featuring guitarist-composer Bill Frisell. Don’t miss 9 world premieres commissioned especially for the day, a rare solo appearance by David Longstreth (of Dirty Projectors) plus music and performances by Hauschka, Nathalie Joachim, Tania León, William Parker, Nels Cline and Yuka C. Honda, Du Yun, and many more greats.
PROGRAM
Wu Man
Nicole Mitchell: A Much Deserved Ass Whooping (world premiere) performed by Ken Thomson
Dobrinka Tabakova: Simple Prayer for Complex Times (world premiere) performed by Vicky Chow
Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for Violin performed by Olivia de Prato
Teddy Abrams: Can’t Stop the Revolution (world premiere)
Fjóla Evans: Eggshell (world premiere) performed by Kendall Williams
Shara Nova: Hidden in Plain Sight (world premiere)
Brad Lubman: can you make a prayer (world premiere) performed by Lauren Radnofsky
Leyla McCalla
Jacob Cooper: Expiation (edit) performed by Jodie Landau
Kaki King
Scott Wollschleger: Tiny Oblivion performed by Karl Larson
Rajna Swaminathan: Consilience (world premiere)
Nick Dunston: Fainting is Down, Whooshing Is Up (world premiere) performed by Robert Black
Phil Kline: the best words performed by Theo Bleckmann w/ Todd Reynolds & Dan Tepfer
Marcos Balter: …and also a fountain performed by Rebekah Heller
Oliver Lake
Annea Lockwood: RCSC performed by Sarah Cahill
Paola Prestini: From the Bones to the Fossils performed by Jeffrey Zeigler
Craig Taborn
Annika Socolofsky: Bolder (world premiere) performed by Arlen Hlusko
Samson Young: Super Dark Energy (world premiere) performed by David Cossin
György Ligeti: The Devil’s Staircase performed by Jeremy Denk
Bang on a Can’s 3rd online Marathon features 6 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, boundary-smashing music. We kick off at 3pm with the singular and extraordinary Wu Man, one of the world’s foremost Pipa players and close off with György Ligeti’s diabolical etude The Devil’s Staircase, performed by piano superstar Jeremy Denk. Don’t miss a rare solo performance by jazz legend Oliver Lake, and 11 world premieres commissioned especially for the day! The Marathon will be hosted by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
PROGRAM
Rhiannon Giddens
Helena Tulve: Without love atoms would stop spinning (world premiere) performed by Arlen Hlusko
Aeryn Santillan: disconnect. (world premiere) performed by Ken Thomson
Alvin Curran: Shofar Rags XXL
Ted Hearne: Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job (excerpt)
ŽibuoklėI Martinaitytė: Abyssal Zone (world premiere) performed by Robert Black
Nik Bärtsch: (Video Unavailable)
Iva Bittová
Roscoe Mitchell
Paula Matthusen: of an implacable subtraction performed by Dana Jessen
Tomeka Reid: Lamenting G.F., A.A., B.T., T.M. (world premiere) performed by Vicky Chow
Susanna Hancock: Everything In Bloom (world premiere) performed by Nick Photinos
Don Byron
Ailie Robertson: The Bells are All Silent (world premiere) performed by Gregg August
Tim Brady: At Sergio’s Request (world premiere)
Judd Greenstein: In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves performed by Nadia Sirota
Pamela Z
Alex Weiser: Music from and all the days were purple performed by Eliza Bagg
Kendall Williams: Bass and Things (world premiere) performed by David Cossin
Carla Kihlstedt: New Work (world premiere)
Frederic Rzewski: Which Side Are You On? performed by Conrad Tao
Leila Adu: Black-Crowned Night-Heron (world premiere) performed by Mark Stewart
Terry Riley
The Marathon will include 25 live performances with musicians connecting from around the USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Scotland, Italy, and Ireland, plus eleven world premieres of newly commissioned works!
The concert begins with a performance by Rhiannon Giddens at 3pm, live from Ireland, and concludes with a performance by Terry Riley. Additional highlights include performances by Roscoe Mitchell, Nico Muhly, Conrad Tao, Pamela Z, and many more. Guest composers and performers will join for conversations in between performances with Bang on a Can Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
PROGRAM
Meredith Monk
Cassie Wieland: Heart performed by Adam Holmes
Robert Honstein: Orison performed by Ashley Bathgate
Vijay Iyer
Anna Clyne: Rapture performed by Eileen Mack
George Lewis: Voyage
Adam Cuthbert
Shelley Washington: Black Mary performed by Ken Thomson
Martin Bresnick: Ishi’s Song performed by Lisa Moore
Ken Thomson: Birds and Ambulances (world premiere) performed by Robert Black
Nathalie Joachim: Aware
David T. Little: Hellhound performed by Maya Beiser
Miya Masaoka: Music for Ichi-ten-kin (one string koto)
Meara O’Reilly
Vinko Globokar: Touche performed by Steven Schick
Zoë Keating
Moor Mother
Philip Glass: “Knee Play 2” from Einstein on the Beach performed by Tim Fain
Mark Stewart: To Whom It May Concern: Thank You
Mary Halvorson
Molly Joyce: Purity (world premiere) performed by David Cossin
Ian Change
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint performed by Claire Chase
Dai Wei: Song for Shades of Crimson (world premiere) performed by Todd Reynolds
John Adams: China Gates performed by Vicky Chow
The Marathon features 26 LIVE performances from musicians’ homes in NYC and around the country. The concert begins with a performance by Meredith Monk at 3pm and concludes with a performance by Bang on a Can All-Star pianist Vicky Chow playing John Adams’ China Gates. Additional highlights include Steve Reich’s Vermont Counterpoint performed by flutist Claire Chase, performances by Vijay Iyer, Maya Beiser, Shara Nova, Nathalie Joachim, and many more.
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.
Its FREE!!!
Music By:
Jeffrey Brooks, Tom Chiu, Fjola Evans, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Nicole Lizee, Dylan Mattingly, Jessie Montgomery, Brendon Randall-Myers, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Gabriella Smith, Galina Ustvolskaya, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Alex Weiser, Julia Wolfe
Performances by:
Terry Riley, Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guests Eric Berryman, Todd Reynolds, and Gyan Riley, Contemporaneous, David Friend, Ethel, FLUX Quartet, Maya Beiser and Kate Valk, Mazz Swift and Therese Workman, NYU Contemporary Ensemble/Jonathan Haas, Robert Osborne, So Percussion, Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields) and Sam Davol, Turning Jewels Into Water (Val Jeanty and Ravish Momin), Vicky Chow, Xenia Rubinos, and MORE!
30th Anniversary BANG ON A CAN MARATHON
Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 2-10pm
8 hours of Live Music!
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Admission: FREE with Museum admission
Suggested donation $16 before 5pm; free after 5pm courtesy of Target First Saturdays.
Bang on a Can comes to Brooklyn with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world! The 2017 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature 8 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.
2017 BANG ON A CAN MARATHON SCHEDULE (subject to change):
2pm
3:30pm
4pm
5pm
6pm
7pm
8pm
9pm
Lead Marathon support by ASCAP.
Pianos provided by Steinway.
Bang on a Can brings our signature event – the Bang on a Can Marathon – to Rotterdam. With guests Ensemble Klang.
The program:
PART 1: 3-4PM
David Lang, Sunray
Julia Wolfe, Believing
Michael Gordon, For Madeline
Steve Martland, Horses of Instruction
– performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
PART 2: 5-6PM
Brian Eno, Music for Airports (arr Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Evan Ziporyn)
– performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Codarts
PART 3: 6-7PM
Red Sofa Tafelmuziek: dinner with musicians and public
PART 4: 7-7:30PM
Red Sofa Pre-Concert Talk with the Bang on a Can All-Stars & Others
PART 5: 8-10:30PM
Oscar Bettison, ppop
Jan-Bas Bollen Fuse
– performed by Ensemble Klang
Louis Andriessen, Life (with films by Marijke Van Warmerdam)
Martyn Padding Fix/us
– performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Peter Adriaansz Nu descendant un escalier
Tom Johnson Narayana’s Cows
– performed by Ensemble Klang
Christian Marclay, Fade to Slide with film (from Field Recordings
Anna Clyne, A Wonderful Day (from Field Recordings)
– performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Pete Harden, forgiven (world premiere)
– performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars & Ensemble Klang
The Bang on a Can Marathon in Seattle will feature six hours of live music by some of the most innovative musicians from across the country alongside some of Seattle’s most pioneering artists, in an incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world.
The concert kicks off with Bang on a Can’s renowned live performance of Brian Eno’s ambient classic Music for Airports and closes with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and red fish blue fish (UC San Diego) performing the Seattle premiere of Steve Reich’s masterwork Music for 18 Musicians. You will also see and hear an exceptional indie-orchestral collaboration featuring Jherek Bischoff with Scrape Ensemble and composer Jim Knapp; a new electronic offering from multi-experimental Morgan Henderson (Past Lives, Fleet Foxes, The Cave Singers); otherworldly viola/voice duo Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney; piano-percussion pair Gust Burns and Greg Campbell; the “honed and primal, chromed and primo sonic action” of Shabazz Palaces, Seattle premieres of signature works by Bang on a Can co-founders composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe; and more.
Set Times are Approximate and Subject to Change
4pm
Brian Eno’s Music for Airports – Bang on a Can All-Stars
Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney
Michael Gordon’s Light is Calling – Ashley Bathgate, cello
6pm
Wave Piece – Morgan Henderson
David Lang’s Sunray – Bang on a Can All-Stars
Michael Gordon’s Yo Shakespeare – Bang on a Can All-Stars
Julia Wolfe’s Big, Beautiful, Dark, and Scary – Bang on a Can All-Stars
Performance and Sonic Obstruction of Sounds (5a) – Gust Burns & Greg Campbell
Shabazz Palaces
8pm
New Work by Jim Knapp – Jherek Bischoff & Scrape Ensemble
New Work by Jherek Bischoff – Jherek Bischoff & Scrape Ensemble
Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians – Bang on a Can All-Stars & red fish blue fish
The Bang on a Can Marathon in Seattle is co-presented by Seattle Theatre Group and On the Boards, and co-curated by Bang on a Can and Seattle multi-instrumentalist and composer Jherek Bischoff.
Bang on a Can returns to lower Manhattan’s River to River Festival with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the globe.
Co-presented by LMCC and Pace University as part of the River To River Festival 2013.
Starting at 12 noon till 5pm, Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation will host its unique Street Studio: a mobile recording studio equipped for passersby and Marathon musicians alike to spontaneously create and record original music. The Street Studio will be stationed just in front of Pace University on Park Row & Spruce Street.
* World Premiere
** US Premiere
Please note that times are approximate and subject to change
September 1, 2pm-10pm: INTERsection Marathon
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
David Lang: sunray
Julia Wolfe: Lick
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
Michael Gordon: Industry
FREE admission.
September 2, 7pm: Ambient2
Brian Eno: Music for Airports
Brian Eno: Discreet Music
Bang on a Can brings it’s signature event, the Marathon to San Francisco. Featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Pamela Z, Carla Kihlstedt’s Necessary Monsters, Cheb I Sabbah, and more. Full program:
Noon-6pm in the Forum
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8pm in the Theater
Bang on a Can All-Stars with Kyaw Kyaw Naing and Don Byron
Program:
3pm – 5pm
Steve Reich : Piano Phase/Video Phase
David Lang : Sunray
Evan Ziporyn : ShadowBang
Todd Reynolds : Outerborough
Julia Wolfe : Big, Beautiful, Dark, and Scary
Conlon Nancarrow (arr Ziporyn) : Four Studies
8pm-10pm
Kyaw Kyaw Naing : Set of Works from Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing Michael Gordon : Strange Quiet
Don Byron : Selections from A Ballad for Many
Louis Andriessen : Workers Union
