Tours

John Luther Adams: Inuksuit

Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 1:00pm

Named for the iconic human-shaped stone monuments erected by indigenous peoples of the Arctic to mark important locations, Inuksuit is intended to create a harmonious marriage of music and geography that allows the audience to create their own experience as they move within the vast performance area. As listeners’ walk, the balance between various musicians located within the space changes, mixed with the natural sounds of the environment – a primary aspect of the concept JLA calls “sonic geography.” The recording of the work won the 2015 GRAMMY Award for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition,” and filmmaker Len Kamerling’s feature-length film Strange and Sacred Noise includes footage of the piece performed on the tundra in Alaska. Percussionist and composer Doug Perkins directs this event held in a public location to be named soon.

FREE EVENT 

Location TBA
San Francisco, CA
Touring in support of: 

JLA's Inuksuit at Land’s End Sutro Baths

Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 1:00pm

Photo by Pete Woodhead

Named for the iconic human-shaped stone monuments erected by indigenous peoples of the Arctic to mark important locations, Inuksuit is intended to create a harmonious marriage of music and geography that allows the audience to create their own experience as they move within the vast performance area. As listeners’ walk, the balance between various musicians located within the space changes, mixed with the natural sounds of the environment – a primary aspect of the concept JLA calls “sonic geography.” Percussionist and composer Doug Perkins directs this event.

FREE EVENT

Land’s End Sutro Baths
1004 Point Lobos Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94121
Touring in support of: 

New@Noon: Lang & Coleman

Friday, July 28, 2017 - 12:00pm

Join us in this last New@Noon of the summer with works by David Lang and Imani Winds flutist and composer Valerie Coleman. These beautiful works will both inspire and move you

Lincoln Recital Hall-PSU
1620 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97201

JACK Quartet: Music of JLA

Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 7:30pm

Photo by Pete Woodhead

On this first night of the John Luther Adams Festival, JACK Quartet performs music from the album The Wind in High Places, including the pastoral 2011 title piece as well as the 2015 quartets Canticles of the Sky and untouched, and Dream of the Canyon Wren (2013), a work composed specifically for the JACK Quartet.

SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Mozart to Lang: Instrumental Opera

Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 7:30pm

Chamber Music Northwest gives a nod to the Opera with instrumental operatic works including Mozart’s overture to Cosí fan Tutte and three pieces by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang including his Academy Award nominated Simple Song #3.

Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202

Nick Photinos at MASS MoCA

Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 4:30pm

Cellist Nick Photinos will be joined by bassist/composer Florent Ghys in presenting works of Florent’s and others from Petits Artéfacts, Nick’s upcoming debut album release on New Amsterdam this fall. Fun fact — Nick has won four Grammys!

MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247

Vicky Chow at MASS MoCA

Monday, July 24, 2017 - 4:30pm

Canadian pianist and Bang on a Can All-Star Vicky Chow will perform a program of commissioned works including music by Canadian composer Fjola Evans (summer festival alum), Icelandic composer David Brynjar Franzson, and David Lang. The recital will also include the high energy Sonatra by Michael Gordon.

MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247

Karl Larson at MASS MoCA

Saturday, July 22, 2017 - 4:30pm

Karl Larson plays Robert Honstein’s Grand Tour for solo piano.

Free with gallery admission

MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247

Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay at MASS MoCA

Friday, July 21, 2017 - 4:30pm

The keyboard duo of Ray/Kallay (Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay) will play two works for microtonal keyboards by Dylan Mattingly and Rand Steiger. Vicki will also play three short works for solo piano: spring and greene by David Lang, On Debrosses Steet by Michael Gordon, and East Broadway by Julia Wolfe.

MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247

Ashley Bathgate at MASS MoCA

Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 4:30pm

Ashley Bathgate performs new works for solo cello by Martin Bresnick, Emily Cooley, Pamela Madsen, Jascha Narveson, Alex Weiser, and the world premiere of It Is Not A City by Randall Woolf, with the poetry of Tongo Eisen-Martin.

Free with gallery admission

MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247

Eric Jacobs (Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble) performs Lang's 'Press Release'

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 7:30pm

Eric Jacobs — a master of all things clarinet. The multi-talented Jacobs not only plays with a sensitivity and connection rarely experienced, but he sings! The concert includes two world premieres written for him by Andrew Tholl ("takes all the breath out of me") and Gabriella Smith ("Apocalyptic Wavelengths") and established works - Nico Muhly’s “It Goes Without Saying” and even David Lang's infamous "Press Release". Come and experience the artistry of PNME’s newest addition to the lime green dream team! 

City Theatre, Mainstage
1300 Bingham Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Mark Stewart at MASS MoCA

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 4:30pm

Mark Stewart performs the music of Pauline Oliveros and all folks in attendance join in on the wonderful musical instruments of Gunnar Schonbeck. The 9-foot banjo returns. Come and join in: no experience required.

Free with gallery admission

MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247

Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA - Public Performances

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 to Saturday, August 5, 2017

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a musical utopia for innovative musicians in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts. The residency portion of the project is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music and runs from July 17-Aug 6.  The cornerstone of the residency are the public performances which run from July 19- Aug 5. The performances include daily recitals by faculty and fellows of the residency in the MASS MoCA galleries (free with museum admission), additional free performances in the community, and a festival finale blow-out concert - a 6 hour performance in the Hunter Center on Aug 5! More information coming soon.

MASS MoCA
1040 Mass MoCA Way
North Adams, MA 01247

Sō Percussion Summer Institute (SōSI)

Sunday, July 16, 2017 to Sunday, July 30, 2017

Photo by Evan Monroe Chapman 2016

Events:

Sunday July 16, 7:30pm
Sō Percussion Opening Concert
McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Music Center

Tuesday July 18, 7pm
bitKlavier Concert presented by Legacy Arts International
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

Thursday July 20, 7:30pm
SōSI at Small World Coffee
14 Witherspoon St.

Saturday July 22, 7:30pm
Princeton Composer Concert
Matthews Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts – 185 Nassau St.

Monday July 24, 7pm
SōSI Outdoors at the Princeton Public Library
Albert Hinds Plaza – 55 Witherspoon St.

Wednesday July 26, 1pm
SōSI at the Princeton Record Exchange
20 South Tulane St.

Friday July 28, 7:30pm
Sō Percussion Open Composer Readings
Matthews Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts – 185 Nassau St.

Saturday July 29, 7:30pm
Summer Institute Closing Concert
Matthews Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts – 185 Nassau St.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Princeton
NJ

Cloud River Mountain - All-Stars and Gong Linna

Friday, July 14, 2017 to Saturday, July 15, 2017

Enter the world of the gods, spirits, and shamans of ancient Chinese myths and poetry in this evening-length work co-composed by Lao Luo and Bang on a Can Co-Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

Your guide is the extraordinary Chinese vocalist Gong Linna, whose dynamic voice travels across vast terrains of sonic colors. Her adventurous artistic range that embraces Chinese folk, pop, and avant-garde art music has drawn comparisons to Björk. Singing in both Mandarin and English, she joins the ever-intrepid Bang on a Can All-Stars for a thrilling cross-cultural voyage through dramatic musical landscapes, from groove-driven melodies and lyrical meditations to punk back beats and stratospheric vocalizations.

 

Lincoln Center Festival, Gerald W. Lynch Theater
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

'the little match girl passion' performed by Dutch Chamber Choir with live dance

Thursday, July 6, 2017 - 8:15pm

Photo by Peter Serling

Program:

William Byrd - Mass to 4: Kyrie, Gloria 
Arvo Pärt - Most Holy Mother of God 
William Byrd - Mass to 4: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus dei 
David Lang - Little Match Girl Passion

Dutch Chamber Choir 
Peter Dijkstra conductor 
Neel Verdoorn choreography 
Ralitza Malehounova,  Roisin Verheul dance

Muziekgebouw - Grote Zaal
Piet Heinkade 1
Amsterdam, 1019 BR Netherlands

Michael Gordon's 'Anonymous Man' performed by The Crossing (world premiere)

Saturday, July 1, 2017 - 8:00pm

Photo by Peter Serling

Anonymous Man is a concert-length work from Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon. The text is drawn from real life—Gordon's experiences living in a changing neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, meeting his future wife (the composer Julia Wolfe), raising a family, and especially encounters with two homeless men who lived across the street. The piece reaches a surprising epiphany—after the bombing of the neighboring World Trade Center, and a few years later when one of the homeless men dies and Gordon watches the outpouring of sympathy from the community—that evokes Lincoln's funeral train going through the streets of Manhattan, including Desbrosses. The interplay of personalities is beautifully rendered in music, springing from Michael’s conversations with the homeless men—serious, funny, mysterious, poetic, and mundane.

Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
8855 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19118

softLOUD at East Neuk Festival - Lang's 'killer' and Wolfe's 'LAD'

Friday, June 30, 2017 - 7:30pm

softLoud (guitarist Sean Shibe) performs at East Neuk Festival.

Program:

James Oswald - Divertimentis
Excerpts from Scottish lute manuscripts including the Rowallan, Wemyss, Straloch, Skene and Balcarres
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Farewell to Stromness
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint
Julia Wolfe - LAD
David Lang - Killer

Dreel Hall
High St W
Anstruther, KY10 3DG United Kingdom

JLA at Greencastle Summer Music Festival

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 7:30pm

Photo by Pete Woodhead

Pianist Taka Kigawa performs a program that includes JLA’s NunataksAmong Red Mountains, and Tukiliit as part of the Greencastle Summer Music Festival held in Greencastle, IN.

FREE EVENT

Gobin United Methodist Church
307 Simpson
Greencastle, IN 46135

Gordon's 'Timber' and 'Dry' performed at Neif-Norf Summer Festival

Sunday, June 25, 2017 - 2:00pm

Photo by Peter Serling

MINIMALISM DAY FIVE:

Marathon Concert, FEATURING MUSIC BY: Marc Mellits, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Gisby, Michael Gordon, Janice Giteck, Louis Andriessen, Molly Joyce, Philip Glass, Michael Pisaro, Mary Jane Leach (Guest Composer), Steve Reich (featuring Russell Hartenberger), Christopher Adler (nnSF Composition Director), and Brooks Frederickson (Call for Scores Winner)

Minimalism Marathon Tickets: $35

Mill & Mine
227 W Depot Ave
Knoxville, TN 37917

Whitman, Melville and Dickinson — Passions of Bloom by Martin Bresnick

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 7:30pm

Whitman, Melville and Dickinson — Passions of Bloom, a large-scale work for soloists, chorus and orchestra commissioned this year from Martin Bresnick by the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas.

This musical journey of passion, insight and revelation celebrates the writings of legendary poets Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman alongside the texts and reflections of Harold Bloom, master teacher and secular evangelist of American Literature at Yale University.  Modeled on J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion, the Yale Choral Artists will perform under the direction of Jeffrey Douma.

Martin Bresnick – composer
Jeffery Douma – conductor, Yale Choral Artists

FREE EVENT 

Music Shed
20 LITCHFIELD ROAD
NORFOLK, CT 06058

Whitman, Melville, Dickinson - Passions of Bloom by Martin Bresnick

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 8:00pm

Martin Bresnick's world premiere oratorio—a large-scale work for soloists, chorus, and orchestra—takes the thoughts of Harold Bloom, master teacher and secular evangelist of American Literature at Yale University, on a musical journey of passion, insight, and personal revelation. Performed by Yale Choral Artists under the direction of Jeffrey Douma, this world premiere is modeled on Bach’s St. John Passion oratorio, but centers on the lives of legendary poets Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.

Made possible by the Fund for the Future.

Sprague Hall
470 College Street
New Haven, CT 06510

Bang on a Can on the Summer Nostos Festival in Athens, Greece

Sunday, June 18, 2017 to Monday, June 19, 2017

Photo by Peter Serling

The Bang on a Can All-Stars travel to Athens Greece for two shows!

June 18 - 8:30pm - Music for Airports

June 19 - 9:00pm - Anthracite Fields with the Fons Musicalis choir.

Both shows are FREE!

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Cente
Leof. Andrea Siggrou 364
Kallithea, 176 74 Greece
Touring in support of: 

Sō Percussion Annual Benefit and After-Party!

Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 7:00pm

credit: Evan Monroe Chapman 2016

Performances by Sō, Theo Bleckmann, and Wolfgang

After party at 10pm featuring Round Peg Square Hole

RSVP to so@sopercussion.com

Tickets to main benefit $300 each

Tickets to after party $25 each (already included for main benefit attendees) - beginning at 10pm, doors open for a special performance by Square Peg Round Hole!

(le) Poisson Rouge
158 BLEECKER STREET
New York, NY 10012

Ars Nova Copenhagen performs at Klang Festival

Monday, June 5, 2017 - 8:00pm

Program:

Jean Mouton (1459-1522):
Ave Maria Virgo Serena

Anon. 14. årh.:
Dole Super Te - Absolon Fili mi

Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474):
Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesia

Gregoriansk sang:
(i) Herodes Iratus; (ii) Vox in Rama

Jean Mouton:
Ave Sanctissima Maria

David Lang (b.1957):
where you go

Andrew Hamilton (b.1977):
Everything is Ridiculous

Howard Skempton (b.1947):
More Sweet than my Refrain

Steve Reich (b.1936):
Clapping Music (arr. Paul Hillier)

Terry Riley (b.1935):
Madrigal

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1932-2016):
Tre Stadier (Three Stages)
I. In the Streets
II. In the Woods
III. Streets, Woods, - Like as the Waves

 

KoncertKirken
Blågårds Plads 6 A
2200 København N Denmark

'the national anthems' performed by Vox Humana

Friday, June 2, 2017 - 3:45pm

Photo by Peter Serling

Vox Humana presents choral repertoire spanning over 500 years. Works by Dvorák, Ešenvalds, Gesualdo, Pärt, Rheinberger, and from the composer of “the little match girl passion”, the British Columbia premiere of David Lang’s “the national anthems” accompanied by the Emily Carr String Quartet. The concert will also feature “Bush Chord”, a newly commissioned work by Victoria composer Tobin Stokes, as well as “Woefully Arrayed” by John McCabe, and written for Stile Antico.

Alix Goolden Performance Hall
907 Pandora Ave
Victoria, BC V8V 3N4 Canada
Touring in support of: 

Bang on a Can All-Stars - Field Recordings in Toronto

Saturday, May 27, 2017 - 8:00pm

The All-Stars will perform a specially devised program “Bang on a Canada" that features selections from Field Recordings, most of which will be Canadian premieres. Works by Canadian composers Richard Reed Parry and René Lussier will be anchored by a world premiere from John Oswald, commissioned by The Royal Conservatory/Koerner Hall. 

Program:

Eliot Britton: Cuneiform and Glide (1st movement) -Vicky Chow, solo piano
Julia Wolfe: Reeling
Michael Gordon: Gene Takes a Drink with film by Bill Morrison
Christian Marclay: Fade to Slide with film by Christian Marclay 
David Lang: unused swan
John Oswald: new work
-intermission-
Allison Cameron: 3rds, 4ths & 5ths 
Richard Reed Parry: The Brief and Neverending Blur 
Caroline Shaw: Really Craft When You
René Lussier: Nocturne
Steve Reich: The Cave of Machpelah
Anna Clyne: A Wonderful Day

 

Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
273 Bloor St. West
Toronto, ON M5S 1W2 Canada
Touring in support of: 

Zurich Ballet premieres Michael Gordon's CORPUS

Saturday, May 27, 2017 - 7:00pm

Photo by Peter Serling

The Corpus ballet evening focuses on the encounter between ballet Zurich and our "Orchestra La Scintilla," which is performed on historical instruments. The successful choreographers Douglas Lee and Filipe Portugal embark on a musical journey, taking baroque as their inspiration for the creation of world premieres.

The English choreographer Douglas Lee enthusiastically inspired the Zurich audience with his work A-Life andAria . To the music of Antonio Vivaldi and the contemporary American composer Michael Gordon, he now follows the footsteps of the famous painting The Lady with the fan of Diego Velásquez.

 

Zürich Opera House
Falkenstrasse 1
Zurich, 8008 Switzerland

Amid the Noise at National Sawdust

Friday, May 26, 2017 - 7:00pm

Evan Monroe Chapman 2016

Amid the Noise is a set of short pieces exploring many forms of noise framed by drones and consistent yet subtly changing harmonies.  They were conceived as small soundtracks for everyday moments in everyday life.  It was written and recorded in 2006, but has been growing and changing ever since.

In this latest incarnation, Amid the Noise will be performed by a massive ensemble including a core of more than a dozen percussionists as well as electronics, voices, strings and more. It will be woven together into an evening length performance moving from solos and duos to large ensemble pieces and everything in between all experienced along with the original videos by Jenise Treuting.

National Sawdust
80 NORTH 6TH ST
Brooklyn, NY 11249
Touring in support of: 

Bang on a Can at MoMA: Robert Rauschenberg – Among Friends

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

BANG ON A CAN: Robert Rauschenberg – Among Friends

Throughout Robert Rauschenberg’s six-decade career, he moved freely between the worlds of visual art and avant-garde music. Beginning in the early 1950s, Rauschenberg worked closely with the composers and performers associated with the New York School, including such pioneering experimental figures as Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff. This rich dialogue shaped Rauschenberg’s approach to art making as well as that of his musical collaborators. In conjunction with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, David Lang and Bang on a Can present a pair of concerts featuring commentary exploring these artistic exchanges and their legacy for contemporary music.

Tuesday, May 23: Part 1
(performance features longtime Rauschenberg collaborator Christian Wolff in conversation with David Lang). 

Morton Feldman: Ixion
Bryce Dessner: Letter 27 with film featuring Charles Olsen
Christian Marclay: Fade to Slide with film by Christian Marclay
Anna Clyne: A Wonderful Day
Christian Wolff: Suite (I) for prepared piano
Christian Wolff: Exercises 29 and 30

Wednesday, May 24: Part 2
John Cage: 4’33”
Jody Elff/David Lang: After David Tudor (homage to Fluorescent Sound) 
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis 

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019

Become Ocean // The Unchanging Sea performed Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra + pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama

Friday, May 19, 2017 - 8:30pm

Michael Gordon’s music ‘feels fundamental at first, then reveals a beguiling complexity and nuance on closer examination’, according to the New York Times. Gordon drew his inspiration for The Unchanging Sea, written for Tomoko Mukaiyama, from the eponymous 1910 film drama. It is followed by Become Ocean by John Luther Adams – ‘it presents a gorgeous surface, yet conveys overwhelming force’, wrote The New Yorker.

Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest
Kruisstraat 2
Rotterdam, 3012 CT Netherlands

Ars Nova Copenhagen peforms 'first drop'

Friday, May 19, 2017 - 8:00pm

Release concert for the album "first drop" on the american label Cantaloupe Music established by the people from Bang on a Can. Music by Lang, Skempton, Reich, O'Regan, Riley, Hamilton and Andriessen and a world premiere of a new pice by Ib Nørholm in momory of his friend Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

Garnisons Kirke
Sankt Annæ Pl. 4
København K, 1250 Denmark
Touring in support of: 

John Luther Adams' 'Become Ocean'

Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 1:00pm

Photo by Pete Woodhead

This spring, the Concerts at One series focuses on water justice, the subject of the 2017 Trinity Institute National Theological Conference on climate change and water crises. These Sunken Cathedral concerts feature multiple versions and interpretations of Debussy’s classic and prescient prelude La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) alongside a variety of newer compositions focusing on climate change and water, including John Luther Adam’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean.

St. Paul's Chapel
209 Broadway
New York, NY 10007

Joh Luther Adams' 'Ten Thousand Birds'

Sunday, May 14, 2017 - 3:00pm

Photo by Pete Woodhead

A special outdoor performance in Morningside Park of Ten Thousand Birds by John Luther Adams, heard in its New York premiere by the commissioning ensemble, Alarm Will Sound. The work is based on the songs of birds native to the eastern hardwood forest.

FREE ADMISSION!

Morningside Park
New York, NY

ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: ALARM WILL SOUND - ALARM SYSTEM

Saturday, May 13, 2017 - 8:30pm

“One of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene,” Alarm Will Sound brings artists from a variety of musical backgrounds together to create new work through "Alarm System." The “reliably exhilarating” (New York Times) ensemble will perform a concert of New York premieres exclusively. 

The performance will include music by Icelandic producer/composer/engineer Valgeir Sigurðsson, who has worked with artists such as Björk, Brian Eno, Feist, and Sigur Ròs; excerpts from the soundtrack to the television show Hannibal by musician and composer Brian ReitzellCommon Fate by American composer/musician Tyondai Braxton; two works by British composer and sound artist Matt Rogers (Game Show Outpatient); and Aphex Twin’s minipops 67 arranged by Chris Thompson

Alarm Will Sound has a established a reputation for going to extremes to bring to life powerful, engaging sound worlds. For this performance they will employ a host of extended techniques and a battery of additional instruments to create music that is at times hypnotic, playful, unnerving, or exuberant but always compelling. "Alarm System" is a program that brings musical artists from a variety of backgrounds together with Alarm Will Sound to create new work.

Merkin Concert Hall
129 W 67th Street
New York, NY 10036

Gordon: "Timber" performed by Elbtonal Percussion

Friday, May 12, 2017 - 9:30pm

The Hamburg drums ensemble, ElbtonalPercussion is famous for its breathtaking virtuoso drumming. With Timber by Michael Gordon they present a fascinating meditation on rhythm and sound, played on a highly unusual instrument.

ELBPHILHARMONIE HAMBURG SMALL HALL
SaalFr
Hamburg, Germany
Touring in support of: 

Steinway Salon: Lisa Moore

Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 7:00pm

Photo by Nina Roberts

Lisa Moore performs a special program, The Pleasures of Being Lost, curated by John Luther Adams. The program features piano works by composers who have influenced and informed his work. Composers include Peter Garland, Lois V Vierk, Jim Fox, Michael Byron, David Mahler, and Adams himself.

Part of the John Luther Adams Residency

Program: The Pleasures of Being Lost

Tukiliit (2012) by John Luther Adams (b. 1953)

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (1990) by Lois V Vierk (b. 1951)

The pleasure of being lost (2011-12) by Jim Fox (b. 1953)

Bright Angel/Hermetic Bird, I and II (1997) by Peter Garland (b. 1952)

World Premiere (2017) by Michael Byron (b. 1953), commissioned by Symphony Space

Martin Bartlett at the Claremont Hotel (2011) by David Mahler (b. 1944)

Among Red Mountains (2001) by John Luther Adams

Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025

Bang on a Can Marathon 30th anniversary - Brooklyn Museum

Saturday, May 6, 2017 - 2:00pm to 10:00pm

30th Anniversary BANG ON A CAN MARATHON
8 hours of Live Music!

part of Target First Saturday at Brooklyn Museum
Admission: FREE with Museum admission

Suggested donation $16 before 5pm; free after 5pm courtesy of Target First Saturdays.

Bang on a Can comes to Brooklyn with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world! The 2017 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.

Composers: Louis Andriessen, Kim Deal, Amir El Saffar, Merril Garbus, Michael Gordon, Joan La Barbara, Carla Kihlstedt, Kaki King, Laaraji, Oliver Lake, David Lang, Meredith Monk, Caroline Shaw, Kendall Williams, Julia Wolfe, and MORE.

Performers: Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crossfire Steel Orchestra, Amir El Saffar’s Two Rivers Ensemble, Laaraji, Oliver Lake Crash Bang Trio with Bill McClellan and Reggie Nicholson, Just Ensemble, Innov Gnawa, Carla Kihlstedt, Kaki King, Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Caroline Shaw, and MORE.

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!

Stay tuned for more details!

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY

Gordon's "Natural History" performed at CLASSICS: FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN MUSIC II

Friday, April 28, 2017 to Saturday, April 29, 2017

Photo by Peter Serling

Program:

SAMUEL BARBER - Overture to The School for Scandal
SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER - Four Selections from Penelope
1. The stranger with the face of a man I loved
4. The lotus eater
9. Dead Friend
13. Baby teeth, bones, and bullets
HERBIE HANCOCK - Cantaloupe Island
LOU HARRISON - Suite for Symphonic Strings (3 movements)
I. Estampie
II. Et in Arcadio Ego
III. In Honor of Heracles
TEDDY ABRAMS - Selections from The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
MICHAEL GORDON - Natural History

Susan Narucki, soprano
Jecorey Arthur (1200)
Teddy Abrams, conductor

Kentucky Center
501 W Main St
Louisville, KY 40202

BOAC & the Jewish Museum present Vicky Chow & Tristan Perich

Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 7:30pm

Pianist and Bang on a Can All Stars member Vicky Chow performs Tristan Perich’s Surface Image for solo piano. This monumental performance-installation with 40-channel 1-bit electronics echoes the shimmering quality of Paris’ 19th century arcades and is presented in conjunction with Walter Benjamin’s renowned essay "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." 

The Jewish Museum - Scheuer Auditorium
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York, NY 10128

Steel Hammer: An Inside Look

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 7:00pm

Photo by Peter Serling

Featuring Julia Wolfe, Drew’s 2017 Mellon Artist-in-Residence and the Bang on a Can All-Stars

This lecture demonstration with Julia Wolfe and the Bang on a Can All-Stars focuses on the making of Steel Hammer, previewing the composition’s April 26 performance. The artists perform and discuss this work, which explores the American-worker ballad “John Henry” and its connections with labor history. A Q&A with the artists follows the talk.

FREE EVENT

Dorothy Young Center for the Arts – The Concert Hall
Lancaster Road
Madison, NJ 07940
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