July 13July 28, 2005

Bang on a Can Summer Festival 2005

MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA map

Two concerts per day in the museum galleries — everyday except Sunday.

All recitals are free with museum admission and held in the MASS MoCA gallery spaces unless otherwise indicated. Please check signage on the day for the exact location – we will be using various spaces throughout the gallery.

See below for event details.

July 14 –MARK STEWART, guitar

  • Plumbing Music
  • Music for Found Things
  • Microsoniphones
  • Trummings

(all music by Mark Stewart)

July 15 -STEPHEN DRURY, piano

July 16 -PATTI MONSON, flute

  • Eve Beglarian – Until it Blazes (2001) for flute and electronics
  • Robert Rowe – Flutter (2002) for flute and electronics
  • Elizabeth Brown – Antartica* (2005) for alto flute and electronics
  • Charles Nichols – Strata 2 (2001) for flute and electronics
  • David Lang – Vent(1990) for flute and piano
    • with Stephen Drury, piano

* world premiere

July 19 -TODD REYNOLDS, violin

July 21 –DAVID COSSIN, percussion and GREGG AUGUST, bass

July 22 –EVAN ZIPORYN, clarinets

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Bang on a Can Summer Festival Marathon

Hunter Center
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA map

ticketed event – contact the MassMoCA box office for more information

  • Iannis Xenakis – Okho
  • Evan Ziporyn – More Songs about Telephones and Dogs
  • Fahriddin Sodikov – Barno Yigit (Handsome Fellow)
  • Annie Gosfield – Wild Pitch
  • Steve Mackey – Feels so Baaad
  • Giacinto Scelsi – Pranam II
  • Elena Kats-Chernin – ProMotion
  • Marc Mellits – 5 Machines
  • David Lang – Sweet Air
  • Louis Andriessen – Zilver
  • George Crumb – Apparition
  • Michael Gordon – Weather One
  • Trad. Uzbek and Appalachian – Country and Eastern
  • Mark Stewart – Speedyfeety
  • Steve Reich – Drumming Part 3
  • James Tenney – Critical Band
  • Trad. Uzbeki – Yel Pazalande
  • Steve Reich – Music for Mallet Inst., Voices, Organ
  • Julia Wolfe – Early that Summer
  • Steve Reich – Eight Lines

Friday, September 9, 2005

Bang on a Can All-Stars with Iva Bittova

Klara Festival, Brussels Airport
Brussels, Belgium map
  • Brian Eno – Music for Airports
  • Julia Wolfe – Believing
  • Thurston Moore – Stroking Piece #1
  • Louis Andriessen – Workers Union
  • Iva Bittova – Elida

This performance of Bang on a Can is supported by USArtists International, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts with support from JPMorgan Chase and managed by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.