Asphalt Orchestra performing a full-length set at Target® Free Thursdays, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Broadway between 62nd and 63rd!

• David Lang: Sunray
• Michael Gordon: For Madeline
• Evan Ziporyn: Music from Shadowbang
• Glenn Kotche/Steve Reich: Clapping Music Variations
• Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood (arr. by David Cossin For Drums)
• Glenn Kotche: Mobile
• Glenn Kotche: Snap

2010 Commissions: Oscar Bettison, Nik Baertsch, Christine Southworth, David Longstreth

• David Lang: sunray
• Michael Nyman: Manhatta with film by Paul Strand
• Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary
• Louis Andriessen: Life (new work) with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam
• Michael Gordon: For Madeline
• Thurston Moore: Stroking Piece #1

• David Lang: sunray
• Michael Gordon: For Madeline
• Louis Andriessen: Life (New Work) with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam
• Don Byron: Selections from ‘A Ballad for Many’

• David Lang: sunray
• Michael Gordon: For Madeline
• Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary
• Kate Moore: Ridgeway
• Louis Andriessen: Life (new work) with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam

The Bang on a Can All-Stars play Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival, sharing a bill with the Dirty Projectors! Other artists performing at the 2010 Big Ears festival include the xx, Joanna Newsom, Vampire Weekend and Terry Riley!

• Martyn Padding: Fix/Us
• Works by Cornelis DeBondt
• Tom Aldrich: Virgo
• Angus Barnacle: Inner Voices
• Peter Kerkelov: HORO
• Hollas Longton: A Few More Years

• David Lang: sunray
• Michael Gordon: For Madeline
• Julia Wolfe: Believing
• Kate Moore: Ridgeway
• Louis Andriessen: Life (new work) with film by Marijke Van Warmerdam

Program:

• Michael Nyman: Manhatta (arr. Andy Keenan) with film by Paul Strand
• Julia Wolfe: Believing
• Louis Andriessen: Life with film by Marijke Van Warmerdam, Wind, Couple on Bench, Blinds, Window
• –INTERMISSION—
• B. Eno/R. Wyatt/R. Davies: Music for Airports (1/1) (arr Michael Gordon)
• Brian Eno:Music for Airports (1/2) (arr. David Lang)
• Brian Eno: Music for Airports (2/1) (arr. Julia Wolfe)
• Brian Eno: Music for Airports (2/2) (arr. Evan Ziporyn)

DUE TO THE GIANT CLOUD OF VOLCANIC ASH ENCIRCLING WESTERN EUROPE, THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELED

U.S. Premiere of new work Life by Louis Andriessen with film by Marijke Van Warmerdam!

Bang on a Can All-Stars at the Athelas New Music Festival 2010

Program:

• Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint
• David Lang – Sunray
• Michael Gordon – For Madeline
• Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen – Convex-Concave-Concord
• Julia Wolfe – Believing

• B. Eno / R. Wyatt / R. Davies – Music for Airports (1/1) (arr Michael Gordon)
• Brian Eno – Music for Airports (1/2) (arr David Lang)
• Brian Eno – Music for Airports (2/1) (arr Julia Wolfe)
• Brian Eno – Music for Airports (2/2) (arr Evan Ziporyn)

Bang on a Can and the Noguchi Museum co-host Music in the Garden, an innovative series held on the second Sunday of every month from June to September in the Museum’s celebrated outdoor sculpture garden.

Free with Museum admission: $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID. Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org

12:00pm

• John Hollenbeck – Perseverance
  • John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
• Dorothee Hahne – Danse Macabre
  • Quartet New Generation
• Paul Moravec – Mortal Flesh
  • Quartet New Generation
• Moritz Eggert – Flea Walls
  • Quartet New Generation
• Kambar Kalendarov & Kutman Sultanbekov performing traditional songs from Kyrgyzstan
• Florent Ghys – Simplement
  • Florent Ghys
• Moritz Eggert – Hammerklavier III: One Man Band
  • Moritz Eggert

2:00 PM

• Graham Fitkin – Mesh
  •  Face the Music
•  Tristan Perich – new work
  •  Tristan Perich
• Steve Coleman  – Lunar Eclipse
  •  Steve Coleman, Jonathan Finlayson, David Millares
• Seung-Ah Oh – DaDeRimGil
  • Slagwerk Den Haag
•  Marco Momi – Ludica
  •  Slagwerk Den Haag

4:00 PM

• Iannis Xenakis – Tetras
  • JACK Quartet
• Evan Ziporyn – Tire Fire
  • Gamelan Galak Tika
• Michiel Mensingh – Oh, I am sorry, did I break your concentration?
  • Quartet New Generation with Moritz Eggert
• Mary Ellen Childs- Black Box
  • Quartet New Generation with Moritz Eggert
• Fred Frith – Snakes and Ladders
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars

6:00 PM

• Fausto Romitelli – Professor Bad Trip
  • Talea Ensemble
• Buke and Gass in performance
• Moritz Eggert – Hammerklavier V: Study in Fall; Hammerklavier XX: One Man Band 2
  • Moritz Eggert
• Mayke Nas & Wouter Snoei – I Delayed People’s Flights By Walking Slowly In Narrow Hallways
  • Slagwerk Den Haag

8:00 PM

• Vernon Reid – Ghost Narratives
  • Vernon Reid, Mazz Swift, Leon Gruenbaum
• Kate Moore- Ridgeway
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Mira Calix in performance
• Mira Calix – spring falls back
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars with Mira Calix
• Tim Brady – Switch (Seconds/Liquid/Leaps/Singularity/Melismatic); Strumming (Hommage a John Lennon) with video by Martin Messier
  • Tim Brady

10:00 PM

• Asanbai Karimov – Chyibyldyn Kyzynyn Koshogu; traditional song Tagyldyr Too; Nurlanbek Nyshanov- Ala Too Jazy
  • Kambar Kalendarov & Kutman Sultanbekov
• Florent Ghys – 4
  • Florent Ghys
• Burkina Electric in performance
• Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang – Shelter with libretto by Deborah Artman and film proections by Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder
  • Signal Ensemble conducted by Brad Lubman

Bang on a Can’s iconoclastic marching band Asphalt Orchestra makes its UK Debut! For more information, visit http://www.asphaltorchestra.com

Bang on a Can and the Noguchi Museum co-host Music in the Garden, an innovative series held on the second Sunday of every month from June to September in the Museum’s celebrated outdoor sculpture garden.

Free with Museum admission: $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID. Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org

North Adams explodes with music as the fellows & faculty of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival use every available space on the MASS MoCA campus & throughout the community to create and perform music. The festival features two recitals a day (Mon-Fri at 1:30pm and 4:30pm and Sat at 4:30pm), free with gallery admission. We are also celebrating George Crumb on a special weekend devoted to his combination of drama, darkness, & mysticism, and will throw our annual music bash, the Summer Marathon, a six-hour blow-out festival finale.

Buy a Festival pass for $60 which gets you into all concerts, recitals, & other events.

Wednesday July 14
4:30 Solo work and Be-In by Evan Ziporyn

Thursday July 15
4:30 Vicki Ray, piano. Music by Chinary Ung, Vicki Ray, Rand Steiger, David Rosenbloom

Friday July 16
4:30 Todd Reynolds: World premieres of music from his new CD featuring Bang on a Can faculty composers. Also a performance with the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR)

Saturday July 17
11:30am Family performance – “Kids Can Too”: Learn about and make music at this festive session with the faculty and fellows of Bang on a Can. Nose harps, kazoos, drinking straws and more have been used to fashion instruments in previous years. Sells out fast, reserve in advance.

4:30 Performances by Ashley Bathgate cello, and Vicky Chow, piano

Monday July 19
4:30 Nick Photinos, cello, with Todd Reynolds violin and Vicki Ray, piano. Music by George Crumb, Shaun Naidoo, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mischa Zupko

Tuesday July 20
4:30 Traditional music from Uzbekistan

Wednesday July 21
4:30 The Music of Martin Bresnick performed by festival ensembles

Thursday July 22
4:30 Music by Gregg August and Ken Thomson

Friday July 23
4:30 “Day of Viagara” A collaboration between Christine Southworth, Ken Thomson, and Evan Ziporyn. Music for Bagpipes, saxophones, and more

Saturday July 24 – International Crumb Day
3:00pm Closer to George Crumb: An informal, up close look at Crumb’s music-with film, projection, discussion, demonstration and performance, led by stage director and designer Jim Findlay and composer David Lang.

4:30pm Festival ensemble performs George Crumb: “Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)”

8:00pm The Music of George Crumb: Enter the mystical world of Crumb’s music with staging by New York director Jim Findlay. Findlay uses lighting and video to seamlessly connect the stylized ritual theater of Vox Balaenae, the intense anti-war masterpiece Black Angels, the eerie lyricism of Madrigals and the mysterious and meditative Lux Aeterna for masked musicians. In the MASS MoCA Hunter Center. Tickets here

Monday July 26

4:30 World premieres of music written by the festival composers, performed by festival ensembles. Music by: Sophie Cash-Goldwasser, Jeremy Howard Beck, Amanda Feery, Maria Vladimirovna Grigoryeva, Adam Haws, Robert Honstein, Ravi Kittappa, Svetlana Maras.

Tuesday July 27

4:30 Music by Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe performed by festival ensembles

Wednesday July 28
4:30 New music for Balinese Gamelan, written by the festival composers

Thursday July 29
4:30 Music performed by festival ensembles including music by Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Perich and Kenny Savelson.

Friday July 30
4:30 “Typical Music” by Evan Ziporyn, for violin, cello, piano

Saturday July 31 – Bang on a Can Marathon
4:00 – 10:00 pm The ninth consecutive Summer Marathon showcases an eclectic super-mix of new and unusual music. Six non-stop hours feature explosive performances of just-written music alongside classic experimental masterpieces:

4:00pm:
Tan Dun, Snow in June
Chris Cerrone, Requiem for K.V.
Tom Johnson, Narayana’s Cows
Traditional music from Uzbekistan, TBA
Annie Gosfield, Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery

6.00pm:
Arvo Pärt, Fratres I
Ted Hearne, Katrina Ballads (excerpts)
Oscar Bettison, Breaking and Entering
David Lang, Forced March
Christine Southworth, ZAP! (mvt 3 and 4)
Evan Ziporyn, Music from ShadowBang

8.00pm:
Julia Wolfe, Fuel (with film by Bill Morrison)
Nik Baersch, Moduls 32, 35, 33 (arr Evan Ziporyn)
Michael Gordon, Yo Shakespeare
Traditional music from Uzbekistan, TBA
Steve Reich, Double Sextet

In the MASS MoCA Hunter Center.

Bang on a Can’s iconoclastic marching band Asphalt Orchestra makes its triumphant return to Lincoln Center Out of Doors! On the bill are world premieres by Yoko Ono, David Byrne, and Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), as well as the premiere collaboration between Asphalt and Paul Taylor dance company Taylor 2 on August 5th.

For more information, visit http://www.asphaltorchestra.com

Bang on a Can and the Noguchi Museum co-host Music in the Garden, an innovative series held on the second Sunday of every month from June to September in the Museum’s celebrated outdoor sculpture garden.

Free with Museum admission: $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID. Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org

Asphalt Orchestra performs at The Invisible Dog as part of the Crossing the Line Festival

The FIRST EVER Bang on a Can Marathon in Philadelphia
Co-presented by: Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and World Café Live

2pm

• Steve Reich – Drumming Part 1
  • So Percussion
• Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe – Shelter
  • SIGNAL conducted by Brad Lubman
  • film by Bill Morrison
  • libretto by Deborah Artman
  • projections by Laurie Olinder
• STEW & Heidi Rodewald –CarltonThe Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers
  • Asphalt Orchestra

4pm

• Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra
• Uri Caine
  • Uri Caine, Ralph Alessi, Jim Black
• Evan Ziporyn – Shadowbang
• Thurston Moore – Stroking Piece #1
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen – Epic Text & StatementsVillarosa Sarialdi
  • The Crossing

6pm

• Meshuggah – Electric RedHyperballad
  • Asphalt Orchestra
• Paul Lansky – Threads
  • So Percussion
• Normal Love – I Heard You Can See Baltimore from up there*, Electrolytes in the Brine*
  • Normal Love
• Kamran Ince – Gloria (Everywhere)
  • The Crossing

8pm

• Louis Andriessen – Workers Union
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Frank Zappa – Zomby WoofPulse March
• Goran Bregovic – Champagne
  • Asphalt Orchestra
• Sun Ra Arkestra
• Annie Gosfield – Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
  • Todd Reynolds

10pm

• Jamaaldeen Tacuma/G. Calvin Weston
  • Keepers of the Chaos
• Matmos
• Matmos & So Percussion – Treasure State (selections)
  • Matmos & So Percussion
• Kyaw Kyaw Naing – Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing (selections)
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars & Kyaw Kyaw Naing

*World Premiere

Bang on a Can and the Noguchi Museum co-host Music in the Garden, an innovative series held on the second Sunday of every month from June to September in the Museum’s celebrated outdoor sculpture garden.

Free with Museum admission: $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID. Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org

The Grammy-winning string quartet gives the world premiere of Michael Gordon’s Clouded Yellow.

The Guggenheim’s Works and Process Season Opening Benefit features David Lang’s large ensemble work Forced March and the percussion quartet The So-Called Laws of Nature set to new choreography by Jessica Lang and Pontus Lidberg. World premiere performances by Morphoses will be interspersed with discussion between the three collaborators.

The music of Julia Wolfe comes to Le Poisson Rouge, performed by Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band, Matthew Welch, and JACK Quartet:

Stronghold, for 8 double basses (performed by Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band)
LAD, for 9 bagpipes (performed solo with accompanying pre-recorded bagpipes by Matthew Welch)
Dig Deep, for string quartet (performed by the JACK Quartet.

David Lang makes his debut with the New York City Ballet with the newly-commissioned score, plainspoken set to a new ballet by NYCB Principal Dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied at the NYC Ballet’s Gala.

Evan Ziporyn’s new culturally and musically ground-breaking opera makes its east coast debut.

Bang on a Can All-Stars & Gamelan Salukat
Music by Evan Ziporyn
Libretto by Paul Schick (based on the memoir of Colin McPhee)
Directed by Jay Scheib

Kronos Quartet premieres a new work by Michael Gordon (title TBD) with the Young People’s Chorus of New York.

The Grammy-winning string quartet gives the New York premiere of Michael Gordon’s Clouded Yellow.

Evan Ziporyn’s new culturally and musically ground-breaking opera makes its NY debut.

Bang on a Can All-Stars & Gamelan Salukat
Music by Evan Ziporyn
Libretto by Paul Schick (based on the memoir of Colin McPhee)
Directed by Jay Scheib

Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Fred Frith: Snakes and Ladders
Louis Andriessen: Life, with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam
David Lang: sunray
Brian Eno: Music for Airports 2/2
Michael Nyman: Manhatta, with film by Paul Strand (arr. Andy Keenan)

Bang on a Can Plays Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood
NY Counterpoint
2×5 (US PREMIERE)
Electric Counterpoint
Double Sextet

Bang on a Can Plays Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood
NY Counterpoint
2×5
Electric Counterpoint
Double Sextet
 

Asphalt Orchestra performs at the first ever TED Women conference in Washington, DC. Works by Stew & Heidi Rodewald, Goran Bregovic, Bjork, Frank Zappa and more.

Conlon Nancarrow: Piano Studies (arr. Evan Ziporyn)
Fred Frith: Snakes and Ladders
Kate Moore: Ridgeway
James Sellars: Don’t Stop
David Longstreth: Instructional Video, Matt Damon, Breakfast at J&M
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union