Program: “Strange Places”
Michael Gordon – Paint It Black (1988/91)
John Luther Adams – Three High Places (2017)
First Fridays with Robert Black is a monthly series of virtual mini-concerts featuring brand-spanking new, recently new, and kind of new music for solo double bass – streaming from his home studio in Hartford, Connecticut, at noon (EST). Whether you’re having your morning coffee in Los Angeles, or lunch in New York, or that first glass of wine in Paris, or a late supper in Tashkent, tune in for some cool and compelling music.
On December 10-12, 2021 at radialsystem Berlin, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will give their first performances abroad since the pandemic. Celebrated German dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests present their latest work, In C, for the first time with live music, performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars. In C is a brand new dynamic dance work based on Terry Riley’s revolutionary and open composition by the same name.
The December 12 performance will be live-streamed on live.bangonacan.org
Program: “New Faces”
Kate Bodor: Fantasizing About Quitting My Day Job (2021)
Eliot Burke: blue and black marks awhwart the weald (2021)
Hannah Selin: tributaries I (2021)
Nyokabi Kariūki: One, Your Name (2020)
First Fridays with Robert Black is a monthly series of virtual mini-concerts featuring brand-spanking new, recently new, and kind of new music for solo double bass – streaming from his home studio in Hartford, Connecticut, at noon (EST). Whether you’re having your morning coffee in Los Angeles, or lunch in New York, or that first glass of wine in Paris, or a late supper in Tashkent, tune in for some cool and compelling music.
Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund concert returns with a high-octane concert of world premieres and an expanded nine-piece Bang on a Can All-Stars lineup! The 2022 PCF concert is part of the Ecstatic Music Festival and will be hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer.
Tickets are $25 or $15 for students.
Program: “Multi-Bass”
Angélica Negrón: La Isla Mágica
Julia Wolfe: Stronghold
First Fridays with Robert Black is a monthly series of virtual mini-concerts featuring brand-spanking new, recently new, and kind of new music for solo double bass – streaming from his home studio in Hartford, Connecticut, at noon (EST). Whether you’re having your morning coffee in Los Angeles, or lunch in New York, or that first glass of wine in Paris, or a late supper in Tashkent, tune in for some cool and compelling music.
Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer is a moving retelling of “John Henry,” a classic American ballad of man versus machine. Based on hearsay, recollection, and tall tales, the piece features exquisite vocal writing complemented by Appalachian folk instruments, such as wooden bones, mountain dulcimer, banjo, clapping, and clogging.
Program: “Music and Poetry”
Philip Glass: The Not Doings of an Insomniac (2018)
First Fridays with Robert Black is a monthly series of virtual mini-concerts featuring brand-spanking new, recently new, and kind of new music for solo double bass – streaming from his home studio in Hartford, Connecticut, at noon (EST). Whether you’re having your morning coffee in Los Angeles, or lunch in New York, or that first glass of wine in Paris, or a late supper in Tashkent, tune in for some cool and compelling music.
The Southern Exposure New Music Series is devoted to exploring the rich variety of contemporary classical and world music written in the past 30 years and masterworks of the 20th century.
Program info to come!
Big Ears Festival is back in 2022! It’s all happening March 24-27 in Knoxville, TN. Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform “Memory Games” with Meredith Monk and also Terry Riley’s “Autodreamographical Tales.” The full line up is outstanding, and we can’t wait to see you there!
Bang on a Can All-Stars and Meredith Monk perform MEMORY GAME at the Southbank Centre in London!
More info coming soon.
April 7 – Bang on a Can All-Stars and Ensemble Klang
April 8 – Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME
More info
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
Bang on a Can All-Stars perform at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI
more info coming soon
The 2018 Carnegie Hall performance of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Anthracite Fields was one of the season’s most unforgettable events. Inspired by the lives of Pennsylvania coal miners, Wolfe uses oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, and children’s stories in moving musical tableaux that depicts their plight. Hear this “major profound work” (Los Angeles Times) for the first time or be moved by it once again.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA is a 3-week residency and utopia for adventurous performers and composers
Applications for the 2022 festival are online now!
More info and applications
A fully loaded, 3-day, eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental and electronic music!
LOUD Weekend program information coming in Spring 2022!
