Contemporary Classics begins a two week series of music of the New York collective known as Bang on a Can. 07/03/2018
The Bang on a Can Marathon 2014 at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place on June 22, 2014. The performers were: 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 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 Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger
Contemporary Classics begins a two week series of music of the New York collective known as Bang on a Can. This is in celebration of their 30th Anniversary of their marathon concerts and of their more recent Summer Festival at MassMOCA in North Adams MA. This week we start with early works by Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon & David Lang.
