Asphalt Orchestra brings its latest radical performance Asphalt Orchestra Plays the Pixies: Surfer Rosa (honoring the groundbreaking album’s 25th anniversary) to the Pixies’ tour itself!
Asphalt Orchestra brings its latest radical performance Asphalt Orchestra Plays the Pixies: Surfer Rosa (honoring the groundbreaking album’s 25th anniversary) to the Pixies’ tour itself!
The Bang on a Can All-Stars bring their dynamic genre-crossing style to Carnegie Hall’s Family Concert in a program complementing David Lang’s season-long curation as the holder of the 2013–2014 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall.
Bang on a Can partners with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for a Bang on a Can Institute at the National Centre for the Contemporary Arts, a five-day residency-intensive featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to St. Petersburg for the first time in ten years for a joint concert with the acclaimed PRO ARTE eNsemble.
PRO ARTE eNsemble
David Lang: Sweet Air
Michael Gordon: AC/DC
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Julia Wolfe: Lick
Lukas Ligeti: Glamour Girl
Brian Eno: Music for Airports 1/1
Steve Martland: Horses of Instruction
Bang on a Can teams up with the Ecstatic Music Festival to present the 2014 Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund (PCF) concert, one of the most anticipated and reliable launching pads for emerging composers in New York and beyond, hosted again this year by John Schaefer/WNYC New Sounds and streamed as a live audio webcast by Q2 Music!
This year, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will give the world premieres of works by three PCF-commissioned composers: Alvin Lucier, Richard Reed Parry, and Daniel Wohl, in addition to a performance of Julia Wolfe’s driving classic from 1994 Lick, and David Lang’s haunting death speaks featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guest Shara Worden.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Asia for a six-concert tour & residency.
David Lang: Cheating, Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon: For Madeline
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Fay Kueen Wang: Weltinseln
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Lok Yin Tang: Distorted Indulgence
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Asia for a six-concert tour & residency.
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon: For Madeline
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Field Recordings
Julia Wolfe:Reeling
Florent Ghys: An Open Cage
Bryce Dessner: Gloucester 27
Anna Clyne: A Wonderful Day
Todd Reynolds: Seven Sundays
Steve Reich: The Cave of Machpelah – excerpt from The Cave
Michael Gordon: gene takes a drink
David Lang: unused swan
Tyondai Braxton: Casino Trem
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Asia for a six-concert tour & residency.
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon: For Madeline
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Field Recordings
Julia Wolfe: Reeling
Florent Ghys: An Open Cage
Christian Marclay: Fade to Slide
Todd Reynolds: Seven Sundays
Steve Reich: The Cave of Machpelah (excerpt from The Cave)
Michael Gordon: gene takes a drink
Inhyun Kim: New Work
David Lang: unused swan
Tyondai Braxton: Casino Trem
Nick Zammuto: Real Beauty Turns
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Asia for a six-concert tour & residency.
David Lang: Sunray
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary (with Luna Cholong Kang, flute)
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Louis Andriessen: Life with films by Marijke Van Warmerdam
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union (with Luna Cholong Kang, flute)
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Asia for a six-concert tour & residency.
David Lang: Sunray
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary (with Luna Cholong Kang, flute)
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union (with Luna Cholong Kang, flute)
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Asia for a six-concert tour & residency.
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon: For Madeline
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Field Recordings
Julia Wolfe:Reeling
Florent Ghys: An Open Cage
Christian Marclay: Fade to slide
Todd Reynolds: Seven Sundays
Steve Reich: The Cave of Machpelah (excerpt from The Cave)
Michael Gordon: gene takes a drink
Inhyun Kim: New Work
David Lang: unused swan
Tyondai Braxton: Casino Trem
Nick Zammuto: Real Beauty Turns
The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to The Atlas for Andriessen 75, a week-long festival celebrating the music of longtime mentor, friend, and collaborator Louis Andriessen.
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Steve Martland: Horses of Instruction
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Louis Andriessen: Life
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform new and recently commissioned works from their impressive collaborations with leading Japanese composers plus celebrated core selections from their innovative American and Asian repertoire.
Mamoru Fujieda: Gamelan Cherry
Akiko Ushijima: Distorted Melody
Somei Satoh: Shu (Spells), Movement 4
Tan Dun: Concerto for Six
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Martland: Horses of Instruction with special guest, Eduardo Leandro
The Bang on a Can All-Stars join forces with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia for the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields.
Join us for the Second Annual “Banglewood Benefit” this April 30 at JACK, a performance space in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. This year, we’re doing an informal concert followed by a wild and wooly dance party. We’ll be treated to a smorgasbord of great musical bits from alums Ruby Fulton, Adam Cuthbert, Mark Stewart, Concert Black, New Thread Quartet to Nouveau Classical Project and more. And then DJ Jacob Cooper will “tear the roof off the sucka.”
Asphalt Orchestra returns to Massachusetts, performing outdoors at Wellesley College.
Asphalt Orchestra performs a special family concert at Queens College’s Colden Auditorium at Kupferberg Center for the Arts.
On May 27 we host our annual Bang on a Can Benefit at City Winery! This year we honor Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street conducted by Julian Wachner join forces for the NY Premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields, part of the NY Phil Biennial, a Musical Playground of the Here and Now.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum partner for the fourth summer in presenting Music in the Garden, an innovative performance series held in the Museum’s celebrated sculpture garden.
New York-based electric guitar quartet Dither kicks off this summer’s series on June 8, performing:
David Lang – warmth
John Zorn – Curling
Gyan Riley – The Tar of Gyu
Joshua Lopes – Head Down, Eyes Averted
Bang on a Can and The Jewish Museum join in presenting Asphalt Orchestra on June 10, the inaugural concert of a season-long partnership from June, 2014 – May, 2015.
Asphalt Orchestra’s performance is part of the Museum Mile Festival on Fifth Avenue between 82nd Street and 105th Street.
On June 21th Asphalt Orchestra joins Make Music New York for And Death Shall Have No Dominion. Conceived and composed by Pete M. Wyer, the piece is a participatory singing event for a synchronized headphone choir in honor of Dylan Thomas’s famous poem. The band begins at various locations in Lower Manhattan at 11am, converging on Rockefeller Park at 11:45am.
Bang on a Can returns to the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world! The 2014 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature 8 hours of rare performances by some of the most innovative musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s most pioneering young artists.
Co-presented by River to River Festival, Arts Brookfield, and Bang on a Can.
Lead support is provided by ASCAP, in celebration of its 100 years of protecting, supporting and fostering the work of composers worldwide.
Set times are approximate.
2pm
Great Noise Ensemble
Armando Bayolo: Caprichos
Carlos Carrillo: De la brevedad de la vida
Adrianna Mateo, violin
Molly Joyce: Lean Back and Release
Great Noise Ensemble
Marc Mellits: Machine V from 5 Machines
Bearthoven
Brooks Frederickson: Undertoad
Anonymous 4
David Lang: love fail (selections)
Dawn of Midi
Amino Belyamani and Aakaash Israni: Excerpt from Dysnomia
4pm
Roomful of Teeth
Judd Greenstein: AEIOU
Caroline Shaw: Allemande and Sarabande from Partita for 8 Voices
Contemporaneous
Andrew Norman: Try
Meredith Monk & Theo Bleckmann
Meredith Monk: Facing North
Jherek Bischoff & Contemporaneous
Jherek Bischoff: Works TBA
6pm
Meredith Monk, Theo Bleckmann, & friends
Meredith Monk: Panda Chant II from The Games
Jace Clayton, electronics; David Friend, Emily Manzo, piano; Arooj Aftab, voice
Julius Eastman and Jace Clayton: Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner
Bang on a Can All-Stars
JG Thirlwell: Anabiosis
Paula Matthusen: ontology of an echo
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary
8pm
So Percussion
Bryce Dessner: Music for Wood and Strings
Bang on a Can All-Stars & friends
Louis Andriessen: Hoketus
Mantra Percussion
Michael Gordon: Timber
PLUS Bang on a Can’s social engagement wing Found Sound Nation hosts its Street Studio – a mobile recording studio equipped for passersby and Marathon musicians alike to spontaneously create and record original music!
Before the 2014 Bang on a Can Marathon begins, remember the amazing power, impact and importance of music compositions of all types as well as their talented composers. Take 4 minutes to watch “Why We Create Music,” a short film commissioned by ASCAP for it’s 100th birthday, featuring Bang on a Can Co-Founder David Lang alongside Bill Withers, Lady Antebellum, Ne-Yo, Stargate, Aloe Blacc, Dan Wilson, Carter Burwell, Amy Grant, Bear McCreary, Josh Kear, Claudia Brant, and Savan Kotecha. Each wrote and recorded a contribution to the score during the film-making process.
Bang on a Can and The Jewish Museum continue their season-long partnership in presenting Other Primary Structures featuring performances by Bang on a Can All-Stars Vicky Chow and David Cossin with Dither Quartet’s Taylor Levine and James Moore. This concert of music by Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, David Lang, and John Zorn is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Other Primary Structures.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum partner for the fourth summer in presenting Music in the Garden, an innovative performance series held in the Museum’s celebrated sculpture garden
On July 13, Music in the Garden will present Bang on Ja-pan, a concert specially curated by Bang on Can including music by Japanese composer Michio Kitazume, Dai Fujikura, Kazuo Fukushima, and Toru Takemitsu performed by flutists Kelli Kathman and Jessica Schmitz, singer Daisy Press, and percussionist Carson Moody.
Free with museum admission.
From July 14 – August 3, 2014 we head to the Berkshire mountains of MA for a three-week utopian residency for innovative composers and performers of contemporary music at one of the foremost US contemporary art museums, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), featuring Bang on a Can Plays Art from July 26 – August 2.
Asphalt Orchestra performs at the Kickstarter Film Festival in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum partner for the fourth summer in presenting Music in the Garden, an innovative performance series held in the Museum’s celebrated sculpture garden on Sunday afternoons at 3pm. All concerts are free with Museum admission.
On August 10, the celebrated New York string ensemble JACK Quartet will perform works from composer Ken Thomson‘s new CD from Cantaloupe Music, THAW.
Free with museum admission.
Asphalt Orchestra journeys to Georgia’s Emory University to perform selections from Asphalt Plays Pixies: Surfer Rosa, soon to be released on Cantaloupe Music this season, alongside classic band works.
Asphalt Orchestra heads to Oklahoma State University performing selections from Asphalt Plays Pixies: Surfer Rosa, soon to be released on Cantaloupe Music this season, alongside classic band works.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum partner for the fourth summer in presenting Music in the Garden, an innovative performance series held in the Museum’s celebrated sculpture garden.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Caleb Burhans will close out the Music in the Garden series on September 14 performing selections from his 2013 album, Evensong and more. Evensong is Burhans’ debut album as a lead composer and recording artist.
Free with museum admission.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars kick off the 2014/15 season returning for the fourth consecutive year to Krakow’s Sacrum Profanum Festival.
The concert features the All-Stars with Lee Ranaldo (performing his work How Deep Are Rivers written for the band via the People’s Commissioning Fund); the All-Stars with Polish new jazz DJ Skalpel (playing Philip Glass‘ early work Two Pages), and PCF-commissioned Field Recordings works by Richard Reed Parry, Alvin Lucier, Daniel Wohl, and Dan Deacon.
OneBeat goes West: Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation brings 25 musicians from 16 countries around the world to the U.S. for one month to collaboratively compose, produce, and perform original music and develop strategies for social engagement through music.
The program begins with a two-week residency from October 8-21 at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA, and continues with a two-week tour featuring performances, youth workshops, and public music-making events in Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars bring Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer to New York featuring special guest vocalists Katie Geissinger, Emily Eagan, and Molly Quinn.
Inspired by Wolfe’s love for the music and lore of Appalachia, Steel Hammer is based on over 200 versions of the John Henry ballad, exploring the subject of human vs. machine in the quintessential American legend.
