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Bang on a Can All-Stars: Brian Eno: Music for Airports (Live)
by John Kelman
When the innovative classical ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars released its version of Ambient music forefather Brian Eno's seminal Music for Airports (Virgin/Astralwerks, 1978) on POINT Music in 1998, it demonstrated how a composition seemingly far removed from the classical sphere could be absorbed into the legitimate canon. And although the studio version is already ten years old, the suite has remained an active part of the group's repertoire, performed as recently as last year at the Bang on ...
read moreBang on a Can: Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
by John Kelman
As much as the Kronos Quartet paved the way for modern chamber musicians to broaden their horizons by recording genre-busting albums including Pieces of Africa , Bang on a Can has extended that road by, amongst other things, interpreting ambient works like Brian Eno's Music for Airports. Both groups, one a more conventional chamber quartet, the other a rather odd ensemble that includes guitar, bass, percussion, clarinet, keyboards and cello, have breathed new life into a stale form by expanding ...
read moreBang on a Can: Phillip Glass: 5ths
by John Kelman
When the minimalist movement emerged in the mid-'60s, it was, for some, a refreshing alternative to the atonal arrhythmic music dominating contemporary classical music. With the emergence of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass came a form that relied on comprehensibility and an almost hypnotic engagement, one that seemed custom-fitted for the experimental, but retrospectively musically conservative culture of the day.
Sure, it was a time for musical experimentation as rock & roll and folk music merged ...
read moreBang on a Can All-Stars Announce Ken Thomson as New Clarinetist
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Jensen Artists
Bang on a Can, New York’s innovative and energetic champion of new music, officially announced the new clarinetist for its “All-Star” lineup. The Bang on a Can All-Stars have become a singular vehicle for visionary composition over the course of the last 20 years, and with the addition of Ken Thomson will continue to set the standard for exciting and virtuosic performances. Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe welcomed Ken Thomson with this statement: “We are thrilled to welcome ...
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June 17: Bang on a Can Marathon Opens River To River Festival
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Jensen Artists
On Sunday, June 17, from noon until midnight, Bang on a Can continues celebrating its 25th year with the annual Bang on a Can Marathon, FREE for the public at World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street, NYC), presented by River To River® Festival, Arts Brookfield, and Bang on a Can. The Marathon has been the opening event of River To River Festival for seven years, kicking off the month-long celebration of free music, dance, film, and arts events ...
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Bang on a Can Celebrates 25 Years with Triple Bill Concert at Lincoln Center
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Jensen Artists
Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra, and MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert (on Mother’s Day in 1987 in a SoHo art gallery) to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range ...
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Bang on a Can Big Birthday Giveaway: Download new double album FREE for first 25 days of 2012
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Jensen Artists
Bang on a Can celebrates turning 25 with a very special gift: Download the new album for free during the first 25 days of January in exchange for a Bang on a Can memory or photo at bangonacan25.org. Premiere Recordings of Music by LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (with film), DAVID LONGSTRETH (from the Dirty Projectors), CONLON NANCARROW, KATE MOORE, MICHAEL GORDON, DAVID LANG, JULIA WOLFE, and EVAN ZIPORYN New York, NYThe Bang on a Can All-Stars have recorded their first studio album ...
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Cruel Sister: Music for String Orchestra by Bang-on-a-Can's Julia Wolfe
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
For all my exposure to the marvelous Downtown New York institution Bang-on- a Can, I have not had the pleasure of hearing much of the music of co-founder-composer Julia Wolfe. There is no good reason for this. It simply is an omission on my part. The situation has been rectified by listening to her new release of compositions for the string orchestra Ensemble Resonanz, Cruel Sister (Cantaloupe 21069). The album contains two longish works: Cruel Sister" (2004), based on the ...
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June 27: Bang on a Can Marathon - 12 Hours of Free Music - Full Schedule Now Available
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Jensen Artists
BANG ON A CAN MARATHON At River To River Festival 2010 Co-presented by Arts World Financial Center
**UPDATE: SCHEDULE AND COMPLETE LIST OF PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS INCLUDED BELOW**
Sunday, June 27, 2010 Noon - Midnight 12 Hours of FREE Live Music!
World Financial Center Winter Garden 220 Vesey Street, NYC
the country's most provocative and consistently entertaining new-music event"- The Village Voice
Featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Mira ...
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Bang on a Can Marathon Festival
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Michael Ricci
Music Review Bang on a Can Marathon Festival's 21st Birthday Celebration Blurs Boundaries, Dusk Till Dawn The singer and violinist Owen Pallett with the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Musical calendar watchers love the seeming portent of anniversaries that end in a zero or a five. But in America, turning 21 is meaningful, too. It's an age that comes with a certain implied license to go a bit crazy, to take risks, maybe even to lose ...
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Don Byron with the Bang on a Can Allstars
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All About Jazz
Cantaloupe Music, the NYC-based art/indie label, announces the release of a promotional mp3 download from their latest release, Bang on a Can/Don Byron: A Ballad for Many.
Bang on a Can--part rock band, part chamber ensemble, has been pushing the boundaries of experiemental classical, world, and jazz music for 15 years. Their latest project--after years of live collaboration--is a full-length disc of clarinetist/composer Don Byron's compositions, the followup to Byron's Grammy-nominated Ivey-Divey. This disc A Ballad for Many showcases the ...
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