The All-Stars unite with Steve Reich, Steve Schick, and California’s red fish blue fish in this all-Reich program:
Clapping Music
Piano Phase/Video Phase
2×5 (West Coast premiere)
Music for 18 Musicians
The All-Stars continue their California collaboration with Steve Reich, Steve Schick, and California’s red fish blue fish in this all-Reich program:
Clapping Music
Electric Counterpoint
Music for 18 Musicians
On January 20, Asphalt Orchestra celebrates the opening of the New American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a premiere performance event choreographed specifically for the Charles Engelhard Court by Mark DeChiazza and Susan Marshall, featuring music by Frank Zappa, Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and the Laneville-Johnson Union Brass Band.
Asphalt also presents a world premiere arrangement of Daniel Read’s Cavalry and William Hauser’s Sons of Sorrow (arr. Ben Holmes)—hymns from the Shape Note singing tradition, inspired by field recordings from the 1940s-60s.
Performances are at 4pm, 6pm, and 8pm in the Charles Engelhard Court.
The All-Stars give an In-store performance at Apple Soho featuring music from their latest album Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
The Bang on a Can All-Stars continue their season-long residency at MIT featuring the Boston premieres of 2×5, New York Counterpoint, and Clapping Music and a special preview performance of Field Recordings with special guest Nick Zammuto (of The Books).
Music for Airports 1/1, Brian Eno
Horses of Instruction, Steve Martland
Instructional Video, Matt Damon, Breakfast at J&M, David Longstreth (Nederlandse première)
2×5, Steve Reich (Nederlandse première)
The All-Stars give the world premiere performance of Field Recordings, a new evening-length project featuring music by Tyondai Braxton, Mira Calix, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Christian Marclay, Julia Wolfe, Nick Zammuto and Evan Ziporyn.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Workers Union and team up with the London Sinfonietta performing Hout – both by Louis Andriessen.
More information here.
Life, Louis Andriessen with film by Marijke Van Warmerdam
2×5, Steve Reich
Believing, Julia Wolfe
Ridgeway, Kate Moore
Convex/Concave/Concord, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Horses of Instruction, Steve Martland
Russia Tour, Moscow, Kazan, Chelyabinsk and Voronez
The Bang on a Can All-Stars tour Russia performing new works and Bang on a Can classics:
Conlon Nancarrow: Four Studies
David Longstreth: Instructional Video, Matt Damon, Breakfast at J&M
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Evan Ziporyn: Music from Shadowbang
Don Byron: Basquiat, Show Him Some Lub
Thurston Moore: Stroking Piece
Asphalt Orchestra brings its indoor stage show to Connecticut.
Music for Airports, Brian Eno
Mira Calix: meeting you seemed easy
Florent Ghys: An Open Cage
Christian Marclay: Fade to Slide
Nick Zammuto: Real Beauty Turns
On April 28, Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years with an extraordinary triple-bill at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars US Premiere of Field Recordings, the Asphalt Orchestra World Premiere collaboration with drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, and MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika.
Using film, found sound, and archival audio and video, Field Recordings features nine hot-off-the-press commissioned works for the the unstoppable Bang on a Can All-Stars by: Tyondai Braxton, Mira Calix (performing live), Florent Ghys, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Christian Marclay (performing live), Julia Wolfe, Nick Zammuto, (performing live), and Evan Ziporyn (performing live).
Also featured in this birthday bash performance is in-house virtuoso street band Asphalt Orchestra with unbelievable Japanese drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (mastermind behind the legendary noise/prog band Ruins). Asphalt has arranged two of his pieces and will be collaborating on a World Premiere composition (with Yoshida himself performing live!).
The festivities will begin with the mighty Gamelan Galak Tika performing its signature piece – Evan Ziporyn’s Tire Fire for gamelan and retuned electric guitars.
We’re throwing a party!
This May marks the 25th birthday of Bang on a Can. We’d be thrilled if you would join us for our Big Bang Benefit Dinner & Concert on Tuesday, May 1st at City Winery, as we toast a quarter century of mind-blowing music with cocktails, dinner and an intimate concert by our world-famous Bang on a Can All-Stars. It will also be an opportunity to toast our dear friend and Board president Adam Wolfensohn, whom we’re honoring with our annual Bang on a Can Visionary Award.
Get your tickets here.
Asphalt Orchestra heads north to Vermont with works for the band by Tatsuya Yoshida, David Byrne, St. Vincent, and much more.
Noguchi Museum and Bang on a Can partner to present Music in the Garden featuring Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band on June 10.
The Hartt Bass Band is: Robert Black, Marshall Greenberg, Emilio Guarino, Douglass Lemke, Olivia Rose Muzzy, Sean Rubin, Evan Runyon, Dan Turkos.
This concert is FREE with museum admission!
Bang on a Can returns to the Festival of Arts and Ideas with street band Asphalt Orchestra. On the bill is an eclectic mix of hot-off-the-press works and band classics.
* World Premiere
** US Premiere
The Bang on a Can All-Stars take an all-Reich program on tour throughout France and the UK!
July 3: Nantes, France: Cité des congrès
July 4: Paris, France: Cité de la musique
Clapping Music
Cello Counterpoint
Piano Phase/Video Phase
Nagoya Guitars
New York Counterpoint
2×5
July 6: London, England: Bloc Festival
Clapping Music
Piano Phase/ Video Phase
New York Counterpoint
Cello Counterpoint
Electric Counterpoint
2×5
Noguchi Museum and Bang on a Can Partner to present Music in the Garden featuring Ethel on July 8.
Present Beauty:
Mark Stewart: To Whom It May Concern
Terry Riley: Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Philip Glass: Suite from The Hours
Julia Wolfe: Early That Summer
David Lang: Wed
Huang Ruo: String Quartet No. 2: The Flag Project
This concert is FREE with museum admission!
The festival includes daily recitals in the museum galleries at 1:30pm (M-F) & 4:30pm (M-Sat) (free with museum admission) featuring festival faculty and fellows, our signature Marathon concert festival blow-out, and much more!
Recital highlights of the 2012 Festival included:
July 11: David Cossin, percussion, plays music of Gyan Riley
July 12: Vicky Ray, piano, plays music of John Cage, Bruce Reiprich, Sean Heim, and Somei Satoh
July 12: Michael Gordon’s Timber performed by Mantra Percussion
July 13: Ashley Bathgate, cello, plays music of John Zorn, Bill Ryan, Yoav Shemesh, Gregg August, and Philip Glass
July 14: Vicky Chow, piano, plays John Cage Sonatas and Interludes
July 16: Todd Reynolds, violin, and friends
July 17: Music for Two Pianos
July 18: Ken Thomson, clarinet, and friends
July 18: Latin music concert
July 19: David Lang’s Child
July 20: Gregg August, bass; Nick Photinos, cello
July 21: The music of Philip Glass
July 21: Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Field Recordings
July 23:WORLD PREMIERES by our festival composers: Samuel Crawford, Daniel Dehaan, Fjola Evans, Molly Fishman, Yotam Haber, Loren Loiacono, Mike Perdue, and John Supko.
July 24: Music of Julia Wolfe
July 25: More new music by the festival composers
July 25: Annual community concert at Windsor Lake
July 26: Percussion quartet plays John Cage, Earle Brown and more
July 27: Cello extravaganza — trios, quartets and octets play music of John Zorn, Arvo Part, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham, Matt Frey, and Steve Reich.
July 27: Found Sound Nation at Downstreet Arts on Main Street
JULY 28 Marathon featuring special guest Steve Reich:
4pm
George Crumb – Ancient Voices of Children
Steve Reich – Cello Counterpoint
Dan Becker – S.T.I.C
Lou Harrison – Violin Concerto
David Crowell – Waiting in the Rain for Snow
6pm
Ken Thomson – Incoming
Hans Abrahamsen – Schnee, Canon 2B
Giacinto Scelsi – Okanagon
Pauline Oliveros – Sonic Meditation
David Lang – sunray
Missy Mazzoli – Shy Girl Shouting Music
8pm
Jeffrey Brooks – After the Treewatcher
Steve Reich – Eight Lines
Julia Wolfe – Lick
Michael Gordon – Four Kings Fight Five
Steve Reich – Clapping Music
Steve Reich – 2×5
Asphalt kicks off the HOPFest with a brand new fanfare commission!
Noguchi Museum and Bang on a Can Partner to present Music in the Garden featuring Andy Akiho.
The Music of Andy Akiho:
Crown Heights
Murasaki
Daidai Iro
Momo Iro
Omnipresent
Stop Speaking
Hadairo
the rAy’s end
Mia & evE
Karakurenai
Aka
Andy Akiho – Steel Pans
Domenic Salerni – Violin
Ian Rosenbaum – Marimba & Percussion
Sam Adams – Bass
Kenneth Salters – Drums
This concert is FREE with museum admission!
September 1, 2pm-10pm: INTERsection Marathon
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
David Lang: sunray
Julia Wolfe: Lick
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
Michael Gordon: Industry
FREE admission.
September 2, 7pm: Ambient2
Brian Eno: Music for Airports
Brian Eno: Discreet Music
Noguchi Museum and Bang on a Can Partner to present Music in the Garden featuring Gyan Riley.
The Music of Gyan Riley:
Prelude from Stream of Gratitude
Etudes 1, 3, 4
Irican
Folk Song
Eyes of Orion
Melismantra
Yubalation
Progression of the Ancestors
Gyan Riley, guitar
Timba Harris, violin/viola
April Centrone, percussion
This concert is FREE with museum admission!
Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to PA with surprise flash sets popping up along the way.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform the music of Marcin Stanczyk:
Afterimages
Laterna
Nibiru
Mosaique
Geysir (with DJ Envee) *world premiere collaboration
Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to California in its West Coast debut!
Asphalt Orchestra continues its West Coast debut, morphing into an outdoor flash force, springing jazz, prog-rock, and world music on the mobile masses of Downtown Los Angeles.
Presented by ArtsBrookfield, the band will perform 3 FREE sets:
12:00pm @ Bank of America Plaza
333 South Hope Street
12:25pm @ Figueroa at Wilshire
601 South Figueroa Street
12:45pm @ FIGat7th
735 South Figueroa Street
Asphalt Orchestra takes Unpack the Elephant to Maine.
David Lang: Sunray
Michael Gordon: For Madeline
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion
Thurston Moore: Stroking Piece #1
The Bang on a Can All-Stars bring music from Big Beautiful Dark and Scary to the GAIDA Festival.
David Lang: Sunray
Michael Gordon: For Madeline
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Brian Eno: 1/1
Louis Andreissen: Workers Union
John Cage Centenary Celebration
November 2, 7pm
John Cage and His American Descendants
John Cage: Indeterminacy/Variations 2
Florent Ghys: An Open Cage (Australian Premiere)
David Lang: sunray (Australian Premiere)
Michael Gordon: For Madeleine (Sydney Premiere)
Julia Wolfe: Big, Beautiful, Dark and Scary (Australian Premiere)
November 3, 3pm
The Music of John Cage & Brian Eno
John Cage: Improvisations (excerpt)
John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (excerpt)
Brian Eno: Music for Airports (Sydney Premiere)
November 3, 7pm
Permission Granted with Ensemble Offspring
John Cage: 4’33’’
Kate Moore: Ridgeway (Australian Premiere)
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
Terry Riley: In C
November 5, 7:30pm
Field Recordings (Australian Premiere)
November 7, 7:30pm
David Lang: sunray (Melbourne Premiere)
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (Melbourne Premiere)
Brian Eno: Music for Airports (Melbourne Premiere)
On December 8, the All-Stars will make their final NYC appearance of 2012 at the Japan Society in Rimpa Reimagined, a killer multimedia program unveiling world premieres by red-hot composer/jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and celebrated Japanese post-minimalist composer Mamoru Fujieda. The All-Stars will also revive Somei Satoh’s Shu (Spells) performed to a Rimpa-art-inspired visual landscape specially created for this concert by cutting-edge motionographer Nobuyuki Hanabusa.
The All-Stars’ concert is presented in conjunction with Japan Society’s exhibition Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) showcasing one of the masters of the traditional Japanese painting movement, Rimpa.
