Conductor Marin Alsop leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in three pivotal works by 21st-century women composers including Her Story, a CSO co-commission by Julia Wolfe that captures the passion and perseverance of women who have led the fight for representation and gender equality. A 40-minute theatrical experience for orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble, the piece is the latest in a series of compositions by Wolfe that highlights monumental and turbulent moments in American history.
Live music and dance on film! CAN DANCE is the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ newest show is a seamless integration of cutting-edge music, revolutionary dance, and film. Nine extraordinary choreographers have been commissioned to create dance/films to music written for and performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Live music and dance on film! CAN DANCE is the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ newest show is a seamless integration of cutting-edge music, revolutionary dance, and film. Nine extraordinary choreographers have been commissioned to create dance/films to music written for and performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform their “Classics” in Medellin, Colombia
Program:
David Lang: Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
George Lewis: float, sting
Meredith Monk: Spaceship from The Games
Philip Glass: Closing from Glassworks
Free with registration
The All-Stars perform a reading of new works by Colombian composers Andrés Felipe Poveda, Juan Manuel Jaramillo, Jesús Buendia Puyo, as well as give a lecture/demonstration including works by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. This is a free event.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform their “Classics” in Bogota, Colombia
Program:
David Lang: Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe: Believing
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
George Lewis: float, sting
Meredith Monk: Spaceship from The Games
Philip Glass: Closing from Glassworks
Bang on a Can All-Stars perform ROAD TRIP, by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
Conference: “Bang on a Can: in search of other music”
The founding composers of Bang on a Can will talk about how their music connects with other communities, other instruments and other stories.
1:00p “David Lang: Other Communities” David Lang talks about how his compositions and large-scale public works invite diverse communities and voices “untrained” into the world of musical creation.
2:30p “Michael Gordon: Other Instruments” Michael Gordon talks about timbre and the search for new instruments made with common materials.
4:00p “Julia Wolfe: Other Stories” Julia Wolfe talks about the weaving of storytelling, legends and the history of work in her oratorios Steel Hammer and Anthracite Fields.
Seats are limited. Prior registration must be made at the following link: https://forms.gle/RiwT8UKKNziPzgFu6
Bang on a Can brings the Marathon concert to Colombia!
The Marathon in Bogotá will feature the Bang on a Can All-Stars alongside an incredibly diverse and amazing lineup of Colombian composers and performers. The concert features many different ensembles and soloists from different musical and cultural backgrounds including classical, jazz, and traditional Colombian and American traditions.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars a high octane set of works by contemporary composers to Eau Claire Wisconsin.
Program:
David Lang – Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon – I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe – Believing
George Lewis – float sting
Meredith Monk – Spaceship
Philip Glass – Closing
Thurston Moore – Stroking Piece #1
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The Bang on a Can All-Stars, along with Bang on a Can’s artistic directors and founders, Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, celebrate the work of bassist Robert Black, a founding member of the All-Stars, who is retiring from his Hartt faculty position after 29 years.
Program:
David Lang – Cheating Lying Stealing
Michael Gordon – I Buried Paul
Julia Wolfe – Believing
George Lewis – Float, Sting
Meredith Monk – Spaceship
Philip Glass – Closing
Thurston Moore – Stroking Piece #1
Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble in Julia Wolfe’s Her Story, a new work that captures the passion and perseverance of women who have led the fight for representation and gender equality. A 40-minute theatrical experience, the piece is the latest in a series of compositions by Wolfe that highlights monumental and turbulent moments in American history.
Long Play Festival is Bang on a Can’s Supercharged Musical Ride through Right Now
50+ concerts throughout Brooklyn, New York
Long Play showcases a dense network of innovative music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at Pioneer Works, Roulette, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Public Records, Littlefield, BRIC, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more.
This event is part of the Long Play Festival
Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME, as its title implies, is both a look back at a pivotal point in her storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music, under the guidance of an indefatigable master, can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways.
Meredith teams up for a live performance in NYC with her renowned Vocal Ensemble (featuring Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin) and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Sara Serpa’s distinctive new trio presents a contemporary approach in writing for the voice, challenging traditional roles and highlighting pristine textures in jazz and improvisational music. Never losing track of the common bond that brings these musicians together, Serpa features two extremely innovative improvisers, Erik Friedlander and Ingrid Laubrock, who have a precise sound and particular musical personalities. Collectively, they create a detailed and exposed portrait of her musical world, featuring wordless compositions and texts by Virginia Woolf, Luce Irigaray and Ruy Bello in concert echoing the movement of people and art across borders central to the museum’s current exhibition The Sassoons.
Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble in Julia Wolfe’s Her Story, a new work that captures the passion and perseverance of women who have led the fight for representation and gender equality. A 40-minute theatrical experience, the piece is the latest in a series of compositions by Wolfe that highlights monumental and turbulent moments in American history.
The Dingonek Street Band will perform three FREE sets (at 6 pm, 7 pm, and 8 pm) outside the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue as part of the Museum Mile Festival.
Dingonek Street Band is a Brooklyn-based brass band dedicated to human culture and sonic adventure. Built on the celebratory energy and raw spontaneity of the second-line brass band tradition, Dingonek has created a funky, high-energy party music all its own by absorbing and reworking elements of Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz, punk rock, free jazz, and Balkan brass music.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present tombstar at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.
tombstar is a new ensemble comprising improvisers, composer-performers, and interdisciplinary artists from Brooklyn and Detroit who explore the collective subconscious through improvisation, composition, and joyful experimentation.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up for Percussion Quartet at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.
Drummer and composer Tomas Fujiwara’s “Dream Up,” is a suite for percussion quartet, featuring vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe, percussionist Tim Keiper, and Fujiwara on drums.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a 3-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. Thirty early career composers and performers will gather to create, rehearse, and perform new music in the gallery and performing arts spaces, as well as in the North Adams community. The residency culminates in a 3-day festival: LOUD Weekend!
Leading up to a LOUD Weekend finale, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the incredible MASS MoCA galleries. Gallery concerts are free with museum admission, performed on some weekdays at 1:30pm and 4:30pm.
- Friday, July 14 – Ghanaian Drumming (festival participants)
- Monday, July 17 – Mark Stewart with the Gunnar Schonbeck instruments
- Wednesday, July 19 – Vicky Chow
- Friday, July 21 – Todd Reynolds
- Monday, July 24 – Gregg August plus festival ensembles
- Wednesday, July 26 – Short New Works by the festival composers
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is a fully loaded, three-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental and unusual music taking place throughout the museum’s vast galleries and its stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues.
LOUD Weekend kicks off with Love in Exile – featuring Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily plus Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena. Highlights of the weekend include multiple concerts by the singular legendary Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Klang (from Holland), Theo Bleckmann, Jeff Zeigler; visiting composers Andy Akiho, Nicole Lizée, Pete Harden, David Sanford, Joan Tower, performers and composers from the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, and much more.
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Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present a double bill by cellist Issei Herr and drummer/producer Matt Evans at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.
Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME
Performed by Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble and the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEMORY GAME is both a look back at a pivotal point in Meredith Monk’s storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music—under the guidance of an indefatigable master—can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present For Living Lovers, a duo with guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Stomu Takeishi.
Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi are both longtime veterans of New York City’s creative music scene. Over the course of their long collaboration, the duo have developed a unique dialogue and timbral language for guitar and bass. For Living Lovers’s music poses questions—physical, philosophical, and sonic—all while inviting the listener to participate in an intimate conversation.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars join Kronos Quartet in their Five Decade Celebration!!
Kronos Quartet welcomes a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of guest artists and ensembles to celebrate its 50th anniversary. This special concert includes a short film by award-winning documentarian Sam Green; the New York premieres of Carnegie Hall co-commissioned works by Michael Gordon and Gabriella Smith; and an extraordinary new “Sunrise Jam” version of Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector for 50 musicians. With Special Guests Laurie Anderson, Jake Blount, Brian Carpenter, Tanya Tagaq, Wu Man, Aizuri Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Sō Percussion.
The Jewish Museum and Bang on a Can present a concert celebrating the works of Layla and Mounir Mourad, the Egyptian Jewish musical legends. Layla Mourad was one of the most important singers during the golden age of Arabic music and prolific composers for Arabic language film in the mid-1900s. Her music remains popular and influential across the Middle East to this day. Mourad, who came from a notable musical family, sang and starred in some of the most classic and celebrated films in Egyptian history. Her brother, Mounir Mourad was also a renowned actor and composer whose music, featured in this program, incorporated a modern, jazzy sound along with a conservative Arabic rhythm. This concert honors their lives, legacies and their family’s important contribution to Egyptian music along with their continued impact on the music scene in Cairo. This event is presented in conjunction with the current Jewish Museum exhibition Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé.
