Bang on a Can Marathon

May 12May 13, 1991

La Mama
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2:00 PM

  • John Cage – Three Dances for Four Kotos **
    • Kazue Sawai Koto Ensemble
  • Allison Cameron – Two Bits **
    • Dan Kennedy, conductor
  • Elliott Carter – Riconoscenza
    • Gregory Fullkerson, violin
  • Robert Ashley – Outcome Inevitable ***
    • Relache
  • Paul Reller – Carcass *
    • Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
  • Toshio Hosokawa – Melodia
    • Guy Klucevsek, accordion
  • Stephen Montague – At the White Edge Of Phrygia
    • Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
  • Leroy Jenkins – solo violin
    • Leroy Jenkins, violin

5:00 PM

  • Edgar Varese – Integrales
    • Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
  • Ann Warde – A Glimpse *
    • Ann Warde, piano
  • Kaija Saariaho – Lichtbogen *
    • Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
  • Armando Rodriguez – Linear ***
    • Relache
  • Alan Lighty – Birds of Prey *
    • Artek
  • Diderik Wagenaar – Tam Tam **
    • Icebreaker
  • John Godfrey – Euthanasia And Garden Implements **
    • Icebreaker

8:00 PM

  • Rodney Sharman – In Deepening Light **
  • Mary Wright – Lizard Belly Moon *
    • Mark Stewart, Bill Anderson, John Tamburello, guitar; Robert Black, bass
  • Jose Evangelista – O Bali
    • Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
  • Steven Mackey – It’s Good to be Back ***
    • Steven Mackey, electric guitar
  • Julia Wolfe – Four Marys ***
    • Cassatt Quartet
  • Somei Satoh – New Work ***
    • Relache
  • Michael Maguire – Discipline, Obedience, And Submission ***
    • Relache
  • Scott Lindroth – Duo for Violins
    • Kate Light, Ruth Ehrlich, violins
  • Michael Daugherty – Flamingo ***
    • Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
  • Conrad Cummings – Excerpts from an Opera on Vietnam ***
    • Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

11:00 PM

  • Lois V. Vierk – Red Shift
    • A Cloud Nine Consort
  • David Lang – The Anvil Chorus ***
    • Steve Schick, percussion
  • Daniel Goode – Fiddle Studies
    • Flute, Keith Underwood; Oboe, Vicki Bodner; Clarinet, David Krakauer; Soprano Sax, Andrew Sterman
  • Frances White – Still Life with Piano *
    • James Pritchett, piano
  • Mieczyslaw Litwinski – Everything Is In You/ Like the Sun
    • Mieczyslaw Litwinski, vocals

*** World Premiere

** US Premiere

* New York Premiere