• David Lang: Sunray
• Michael Gordon: Light is Calling
• Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
• Brian Eno: Music for Airports 1/1
• Lukas Ligeti: Glamour Girl
• Thurston Moore: Stroking Piece #1

• Michael Gordon: New Work
• Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
• David Lang: sunray
• Glenn Kotche/Steve Reich: Clapping Music Variations
• Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood (For Drums – arr. by David Cossin) -David Cossin & Glenn Kotche, drums
• Glenn Kotche: Mobile
• Glenn Kotche: Snap

• Michael Gordon: New Work
• Julia Wolfe: Lick
• David Lang: Sunray
• Glenn Kotche: TBC

• Evan Ziporyn – Music from Shadowbang
• Julia Wolfe – Big, Beautiful, Dark and Scary
• Louis Andriessen – Workers Union
• Iva Bittová – Elida

Bang on a Can All-Stars with Iva Bittova.

• Brian Eno – Music for Airports (Complete)
• Glenn Kotche/Steve Reich – Clapping Music Variations
• Steve Reich – Music for Pieces of Wood (For Drums – arr. by David Cossin)
• Glenn Kotche – Mobile
• Glenn Kotche – Snap
• Terry Riley – Autodreamographical Tales

Lok Yin Tang: New Work
Kate Moore: New Work
Fred Frith: Snakes & Ladders
Alvin Lucier: Canon
Lee Ranaldo: How Deep are Rivers

Signal performing Michael Gordon’s Trance in its entirety, conducted by Brad Lubman!

Arnold Dreyblatt: Escalator
Paul Lansky: A is for …
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union

12:00pm

• Andy Akiho – New Work
  • Steel Pan Nonette
• Michael Gordon – Trance
  • Signal Ensemble
• Solo tabla performance by Sandeep Das
• Eric km Clark – exPAT: Deprivation Music No. 4
  • Dither and Friends

2:00 PM

• Meredith Monk – String Songs
  • Todd Reynolds String Quartet
• Solo performance by Bill Frisell
• Ted Hearne – We Didn’t Know; Snowball; Blacktop
  • Your Bad Self
• Kevin Volans – White Man Sleep
  • Smith Quartet
• Jeppe Just Christensen – Ground, vol. 3
  • Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen

4:00 PM

• Phil Kline – John the Revelator (excerpts)
  • Lionheart & Ethel
• Matt McBane – Imagining Winter; In the Backyard
  • Build
• Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille perform their own works
• Gavin Bryars – The Sinking of the Titanic
  • Smith Quartet
• Bill Frisell – new work
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars & Bill Frisell

6:00 PM

• Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen – Three Stages
  • Ars Nova Copenhagen
• Howard Skempton – Rise up, my love
  • Ars Nova Copenhagen
• Jeppe Just Christensen – Braun KSM 2
  • Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
• David Lang – for love is strong
  • Ars Nova Copenhagen
•  Joe Cutler – Folk Music (Daithi’s Dumka)
  • Smith Quartet
• Anders Nordentoft – On this Planet
  • Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen

8:00 PM

• Wu Man performing 12th Century Pipa piece Night Thoughts
• Ken Thomson – Rut
  • 9-Headed Saxophone Monster
• Julia Wolfe – Thirst
  • Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen & Ars Nova Copenhagen
• Moritz Eggert – Haemmerklavier III: One Man Band
  •  Shiau-uen Ding
• Missy Mazzoli – Like a Miracle, I am coming for my things
  • Victoire 
     

10:00 PM

• Evan Ziporyn – Sulvasutra
  • Wu Man, Sandeep Das, Brooklyn Rider
• Solo performance by Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Ryuichi Sakamoto- new work
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars and Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Steve Martland – Horses of Instruction
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Performance by Tortoise 

Our annual benefit concert and party, honoring Mass MoCA Founding Director Joseph Thompson!

6:00pm Cocktails 7:00pm Dinner / concert

Featuring performances by Pipa master Wu Man, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser, the explosive percussion quartet Talujon, and video by celebrated artist Doug Aitken. Plus a very special rare live performance by Steve Reich, with All-Star David Cossin.

To purchase a ticket or table for our Benefit concert, please click here

Based on the compelling story written by Canadian musician Colin McPhee, who is internationally recognized for his role during the 1930s supporting a major rennaissance in Balinese music and its reception into the west, Bang on a Can All-Stars will play a central role in a new opera composed by Evan for a cast of 30 performers including 20 Balinese musicians and dancers, plus the singers Anne Harley (soprano), Marc Molomot (tenor), and Timur Bekbosunov (tenor). The piece will premiere in a workshop form on June 26-27, 2009 in Bali and in its fully staged form in the US at Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, September 26-27, 2009.

A modified version of Bang on a Can All-Stars including including Robert Black (elec bass), David Cossin (drums), Mark Stewart (guitar), Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Evan Ziporyn (piano), will premiere a new piece by Steve Reich on a double bill with the iconic electro-band Kraftwerk. The piece, “2×5,” is a brand new work for a “rock band” lineup of 2 electric guitars, electric bass, piano and drums.

Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present their 8th consecutive year of musical collaboration with a rich daily schedule of exciting performances. There will be 2 recitals daily in the museum galleries (except Sundays), free with museum admission, and concerts on the weekends in the Hunter Center Theater. Also visit the MASS MoCA website for more information.

Thurs July 16
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Todd Reynolds / Still Life with Microphone

Fri July 17
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by John Adams, Eric Chasalow, Daniel Wohl, Julia Wolfe, and Walter Zimmerman performed by Vicki Ray, piano

Sat July 18
11:00am “Kids can Too” family performance
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Performance of Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”
8:00 pm alt-cabaret performance: Babe the Blue Ox

Mon July 20
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by Art Jarvinen, Aaron Jay Kernis, Steve Mackey, Steve Reich, Jeff Stanek, performed by Nick Photinos, cello with Derek Johnson, electric guitar

Tues July 21
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music from Central Asia

Weds July 22
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by Louis Andriessen, Gregg August, Derek Johnson, Brad Lubman, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performed by Gregg August, David Cossin, Ken Thomson, Lauren Radnofsky and members of the festival.

Thurs July 23
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by David Lang and Michael Gordon performed by festival ensembles

Friday July 24
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by Julia Wolfe performed by festival ensembles

Sat, July 25
3:00pm Reich on Lewitt: composer Steve Reich discusses artist Sol Lewitt
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Music by Steve Reich, performed by David Cossin, percussion, Nick Photinos, cello and members of the festival
8:00 pm Bang on a Can plays Steve Reich. Music for 18 Musicians, Eight Lines, and Piano Phase/Video Phase (arr D. Cossin) (Click here to purchase tickets.)

Mon July 27
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: World premieres of new works written and performed by festival fellows.

Tues July 28
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: World premieres of new works written and performed by festival fellows.

Weds July 29
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Morton Feldman’s “Why Patterns” performed by festival ensemble
7:00 pm Members of Bang on a Can perform a free concert at Windsor Lake in North Adams

Thurs July 30
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Festival ensembles perform

Fri July 31
1:30 pm Gallery recital by festival performers
4:30 pm Gallery recital: Festival ensembles perform

Sat Aug 1
Bang on a Can Summer Marathon. Program (subject to change):

More info at www.massmoca.org

The US premiere of A House in Bali, a new opera by Evan Ziporyn with libretto by Paul Schick based on a memoir by Colin McPhee. A House in Bali traces the roots of the west’s century-long infatuation with Bali, through the true story of three westerners – composer Colin McPhee, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and artist Walter Spies – during their 1930s sojourn in Bali. This stunning, multi-media spectacle brings together the finest ensembles of east and west: a 16-piece Balinese gamelan directed by the dynamic Dewa Ketut Alit, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Balinese choreography by the enchanting Kadek Dewi Aryani, wayang shadow puppets, and high-tech projections converge, pushing all boundaries of theatrical innovation.

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The US premiere of A House in Bali, a new opera by Evan Ziporyn with libretto by Paul Schick based on a memoir by Colin McPhee. A House in Bali traces the roots of the west’s century-long infatuation with Bali, through the true story of three westerners – composer Colin McPhee, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and artist Walter Spies – during their 1930s sojourn in Bali. This stunning, multi-media spectacle brings together the finest ensembles of east and west: a 16-piece Balinese gamelan directed by the dynamic Dewa Ketut Alit, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Balinese choreography by the enchanting Kadek Dewi Aryani, wayang shadow puppets, and high-tech projections converge, pushing all boundaries of theatrical innovation.

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PROGRAM:

Tan Dun: Concerto for Six
Conlon Nancarrow: 4 Piano Studies (arr. Evan Ziporyn)
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Evan Ziporyn: Shadowbang

PROGRAM:

Tan Dun: Concerto for Six
Conlon Nancarrow: 4 Piano Studies (arr. Evan Ziporyn)
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Evan Ziporyn: Shadowbang

Bang on a Can All-Stars performing the music of Steve Reich, PLUS Theatre of Voices performing the UK Premiere of David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion! Click here for more information and tickets!

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PROGRAM:

Clapping Music
Electric Counterpoint
Sextet
Music for 18 Musicians

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PROGRAM:

Clapping Music
New York Counterpoint
Piano Phase/Video Phase
Music for Pieces of Wood
Electric Counterpoint
Sextet

PROGRAM:

Clapping Music
New York Counterpoint
Piano Phase/Video Phase
Music for Pieces of Wood
Electric Counterpoint
Sextet

The premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer, a new work co-commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick, Carnegie Hall and Bang on a Can, and performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval.

The premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer, a new work co-commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick, Carnegie Hall and Bang on a Can, and performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval.

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Target Free Thursdays presents Asphalt Orchestra

David Rubenstein Atrium @ Lincoln Center (62nd Street & Broadway/Columbus).

The premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer, a new work co-commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick, Carnegie Hall and Bang on a Can, and performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval.

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The premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer, a new work co-commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick, Carnegie Hall and Bang on a Can, and performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval.

The premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer, a new work co-commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick, Carnegie Hall and Bang on a Can, and performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval.