Tours

Mivos Quartet - Unorthodox - the music of Steve Reich

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 7:30pm

Bang on a Can continues our series at the Jewish Museum with the Mivos Quartet performing the string quartets of Steve Reich. Reich is one of New York’s and the world’s most influential composers and his quartets are arguably the most important cycle of quartets since Béla Bartók. This concert includes his Holocaust-related masterpiece Different Trains, and the intensely contrapuntal Triple Quartet, plus a rare all-live four-violin performance of Reich’s seminal Violin Phase.

The performance corresponds to the Museum’s exhibition Unorthodox

Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York, NY 10128

Winnipeg Symphony plays David Lang

Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 7:30pm

The Winnipeg Symphony gives Canadian premieres of works by David Lang, including 'mountain', 'man made', 'darker', and 'the national anthems'.

Canada

'the national anthems' performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street (New York premiere)

Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 5:00pm

Julian Wachner, Director of Music and the Arts at Trinity Wall Street, presents a Twelfth Night Festival of concerts, services and lectures featuring Early Music written for Christmastide, performed by some of the most acclaimed artists in the field. Featuring David Lang's "the national anthems."

Trinity Wall Street
Broadway and Wall Street
New York, NY

Choir of Trinity Wall Street presents David Lang's 'the little match girl passion' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 7:00pm

A new holiday tradition: experience the "tender and mysterious atmosphere" (New York Times) of David Lang's Pulitzer Prize–winning choral parable, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the powerful eponymous story by Hans Christian Andersen. Conductor Julian Wachner leads the Grammy–nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street in a performance that also includes Benjamin Britten's popular A Ceremony of Carols, a euphoric welcome for "this little Babe" of Christmas.

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York City, NY

New World Symphony: Become Ocean

Saturday, December 5, 2015 - 7:30pm
New World Symphony

New World Symphony gives the Miami premiere of John Luther Adams' Become Ocean

Jeffrey Milarsky—NWS alumnus and esteemed conductor of contemporary music—returns to NWS for a night of modern blockbusters. John Luther Adams has had a rippling success with Become Ocean. As winner of both the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and a 2015 Grammy Award, the work has been hailed “the loveliest apocalypse in musical history.” Though not inspired by Miami’s waters, it speaks timely of rising sea levels as “we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.” Charles Wuorinen, the youngest composer at the time to win a Pulitzer Prize, dazzles with his piece for orchestra and electronics, while Milton Babbitt’s All Set fuses easy jazz with strict serialism.

 

 

New World Center
500 17th St
Miami, FL 33139
Touring in support of: 

New York premiere of Steel Hammer staged by SITI Company with the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 7:30pm to Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 3:00pm

In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.

Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11217

So Percussion in Winnipeg

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 12:45pm

Acclaimed percussion quartet So Percussion perform three major works for unconventional instruments including Steve Reich’s 20th century masterwork Drumming Part 1, David Lang’s The So-Called Laws of Nature, for which So Percussion built their own instruments, and Bryce Dessner of The National’s Music for Wood and Strings.

Centennial Concert Hall
555 Main Street
Winnipeg, MB R3B 1C3 Canada

Grand Band performs Ode to La Burja, Hanon, Czerny, Van Cliburn and little gold stars...(or, To Everyone Who Made My Life Miserable, Thank You)

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 7:30pm to Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 7:30pm

The Grand Band performs Michael Gordon's piano sextet 'Ode to La Burja, Hanon, Czerny, Van Cliburn and little gold stars...(or, To Everyone Who Made My Life Miserable, Thank You)' at the University of Sheffield (UK Premiere) and the Capstone Theatre.

 

 

University of Sheffield Firth Hall
Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
United Kingdom

STEEL HAMMER – JULIA WOLFE, SITI COMPANY AND BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS

Friday, November 20, 2015 - 7:30pm to Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 7:30pm

In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.

OZ Arts
6172 Cockrill Bend Circle
Nashville, TN 37209

Steel Hammer staged by SITI Company with the Bang on a Can All-Stars at Virgina Tech

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 7:30pm

In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.

 

Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, Street and Davis Performance Hall
Center for the Arts, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Third Practice performs David Lang's 'the little match girl passion' at Dumbarton Oaks

Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 7:00pm to Monday, November 16, 2015 - 8:00pm

Exploring the close connections between traditional classical and contemporary music, the professional vocal ensemble Third Practice bridges the gap between past and present in a performance of the motet Komm, Jesu, Kommby J. S. Bach, the exquisite Musikalische Exequien by Heinrich Schütz, and the little match girl passion by David Lang, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.

Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, DC, MD

Los Angeles, CA—Become Ocean

Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 2:00pm to Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 2:00pm

Los Angeles Philharmonic perform's John Luther Adams's Grammy Award-winning orchestral piece Become Ocean with guest conductor Ludovic Morlot.

Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA

Baltimore, MD—Become River

Friday, November 13, 2015 - 7:00pm

John Luther Adams’s Become River will be presented as part of a new Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert series that brings together the classical world and the rock scene on one stage–in this case pairing Adams with the folk-influenced indie duo Wye Oak.

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Trance performed by Ictus and choreographer/danced by Maud le Pladec

Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 8:00pm to Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 8:00pm

In CONCRETE, the research focuses on the relation between music, movement and light. Based on “Trance”, the inaugural piece by the composer Michael Gordon, CONCRETE is a collaboration between choreographer Maud Le Pladec and scenographer Sylvie Mélis who will create the light design for the project. At the crossroads of choreography, "light show", contemporary music concert and installation, CONCRETE questions the status of the “fictional” world created by a work of art and its relation to the real world.

TNB (Festival Mettre en Scène) - Rennes - France

Epiphany: The Cycle of Life

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 7:30pm to Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 7:30pm

In an exuberant ode to life filled with live music, Epiphany sends its audience roaming through labyrinthine tunnels of video, light, and reflection to celebrate the ecstasies of existence. Around a monolithic installation, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City—joined by soulful Zimbabwean singer Netsayi—and a string quartet perform music by Paola Prestini, Netsayi,  and Sarah Kirkland Snider,  backing surreal eight-channel video by Ali Hossaini. As 3D imagery pulsates with epic chronologies, Aztec, Zoroastrian, and Tibetan texts whirl in ritualistic constellations, merging with musical epiphanies that reveal the epic connectedness of all things.

Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217

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