May 7–May 8, 1989
Bang on a Can Marathon
2:00 PM
- Meredith Monk – Double Fiesta
- Meredith Monk, voice and piano; Nurit Tilles, piano
- Arthur Jarvinen – Egyptian Two-Step
- California E.A.R. Unit
- Maki Ishii – Drifting Island **
- Kazue Sawai, koto; Steven Schick, percussion
- Lois V. Vierk – Guitars “Go Guitars”
- David Seidel, electric guitar
- Cees Van Zeeland – Paraaf ***
- Gerard Bouwhuis & Cees van Zeeland, pianos
- Evan Ziporyn – Luv Time *
- Sound Pressure with Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet
- Todd Brief – Idols *
- California E.A.R. Unit
- Bruno Degazio – The Road to Chaos **
- computer tape
5:00 PM
- World Saxophone Quartet
- Hamiet Bluiett, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, David Murray, saxophones
- Tadao Sawai – Homura **
- Kazue Sawai Koto Ensemble
- Elena Kats – In Tension *
- California E.A.R. Unit
- Michael Maguire – Seven Years ***
- Abandon, Linda Bouchard, conductor
8:00 PM
- Bunita Marcus – Adam and Eve
- California E.A.R. Unit
- David Lang – Dance/Drop *
- Sound Pressure
- Ruth Crawford Seeger – String Quartet 1931
- Cassatt String Quartet
- William Doerrfeld – Evening Chant *
- William Doerrfeld, voice and Emax
- Jeffrey Mumford – a pond within the drifting dusk *
- Abandon
- K. Atchley – The Rabbit’s Song *
- K. Atchley, voice
- Julia Wolfe – Sleeping Child ***
- California E.A.R. Unit
- David Mott – Oh! Mysterious Magnum **
- Sound Pressure
- Steve Reich – Piano Phase
- Gerard Bouwhuis & Cees van Zeeland, pianos
11:00 PM
- Ken Gaburo – Antiphony VIII (Revolution)
- Steven Schick, percussion
- David First – Plate Mass
- World Casio Quintet
- Charles Ives – Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
- Pianoduo
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Stimmung
- California E.A.R. Unit
- California E.A.R. Unit
*** World Premiere
** US Premiere
* New York Premiere