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Bang on a Can All-Stars Announce Ken Thomson as New Clarinetist
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2013
Bang on a Can, New York's innovative and energetic champion of new music, officially announces the new clarinetist for its “All-Star” lineup today. 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. (more...)
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Bang on a Can Announces Summer Concerts
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2013
Bang on a Can celebrates summer in the city with seven free (or nearly free) performances in New York, showcasing the breadth and diversity of its continuously adventurous curatorial vision. (more...)
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Bang on a Can to Set Out on Simultaneous Tours to Europe, China and Mexico, May 2013
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2013
This May, Bang on a Can is producing three simultaneous international touring programs: in Europe featuring the renowned Bang on a Can All-Stars; in Beijing, China featuring the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra combined with a Festival Ensemble of musicians culled from its annual Summer Festival at Mass MoCA, and in Mexico featuring its renegade mobile ensemble Asphalt Orchestra. (more...)
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BANG ON A CAN Music Festival Returns to Manhattan, 6/17
by BWW News Desk - Apr 30, 2013
On Sunday, June 16, from 1pm to 10pm, Bang on a Can returns to downtown Manhattan for its annual Bang on a Can Marathon, FREE for the public at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts (3 Spruce Street), presented by River To River Festival and Bang on a Can, and co-presented by Pace University. The Marathon is part of the opening weekend of River To River Festival, kicking off the month-long celebration of free music, dance, film, and arts events. The extensive renovation of Brookfield Place temporarily impacts the presentation of large-scale events in the Winter Garden, where the Marathon has been held for several years. This year the Marathon will embrace the intimate Pace setting to present a few dramatically quiet and tender musical offerings before returning to the Winter Garden's wide-open spaces in 2014. (more...)
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BANG ON A CAN MARATHON Comes to NYC, 6/16
by BWW News Desk - Apr 30, 2013
On Sunday, June 16, from 1pm to 10pm, Bang on a Can returns to downtown Manhattan for its annual Bang on a Can Marathon, FREE for the public at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts (3 Spruce Street), presented by River To River Festival and Bang on a Can, and co-presented by Pace University. The Marathon is part of the opening weekend of River To River Festival, kicking off the month-long celebration of free music, dance, film, and arts events. The extensive renovation of Brookfield Place temporarily impacts the presentation of large-scale events in the Winter Garden, where the Marathon has been held for several years. This year the Marathon will embrace the intimate Pace setting to present a few dramatically quiet and tender musical offerings before returning to the Winter Garden's wide-open spaces in 2014. (more...)
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Bang on a Can to Set Out on Simultaneous Tours to Europe, China and Mexico, May 2013
by BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2013
This May, Bang on a Can is producing three simultaneous international touring programs: in Europe featuring the renowned Bang on a Can All-Stars; in Beijing, China featuring the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra combined with a Festival Ensemble of musicians culled from its annual Summer Festival at Mass MoCA, and in Mexico featuring its renegade mobile ensemble Asphalt Orchestra. (more...)
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RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL 2013 Announces Full Lineup; Kicks Off 6/15
by BWW News Desk - Apr 23, 2013
As part of its 40th Anniversary year, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) unveils the 2013 edition of the annual River To River Festival, Downtown's completely free summer arts festival. This year's edition takes place June 15-July 14 and presents a diverse collection of music, dance, theater, visual art, film and unique participatory experiences by both renowned and breakout artists from New York City and beyond. (more...)
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Bang on a Can Presents 2013 People's Commissioning Fund Concert, 3/14
by BWW News Desk - Feb 11, 2013
On Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7:30pm, Bang on a Can will present the 2013 Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund concert, one of the most anticipated and reliable launching pads for emerging composers in New York and beyond, as part of Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall (Kaufman Music Center, 129 W. 67th St.). (more...)
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Portland Ovations Presents ETHEL, 1/30
by BWW News Desk - Jan 15, 2013
Portland Ovations presents ETHEL, America's premier post-classical string quartet at Hannaford Hall, USM Portland campus for an evening concert Wednesday, January 30th at 7:30pm featuring an arrangement of Philip Glass' score to the film The Hours. (more...)
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Bang on a Can All-Stars Return to Japan Society with RIMPA REIMAGINED Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Dec 08, 2012
Tonight, December 8 at 7:30pm, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will return to the Japan Society (333 East 47th Street) to perform Rimpa Reimagined, a multimedia program unveiling world premieres by red-hot New York-based composer/jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and celebrated Japanese post-minimalist composer Mamoru Fujieda. (more...)
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Bang on a Can All-Stars Return to Japan Society with RIMPA REIMAGINED, 12/8
by BWW News Desk - Nov 08, 2012
On Saturday, December 8 at 7:30pm, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will return to the Japan Society (333 East 47th Street) to perform Rimpa Reimagined, a multimedia program unveiling world premieres by red-hot New York-based composer/jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and celebrated Japanese post-minimalist composer Mamoru Fujieda. (more...)
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Theo Bleckmann and ACME to Perform Phil Kline's OUT COLD/ZIPPO SONGS at BAM, 10/25-27
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 26, 2012
Thursday, October 25 through Today, October 27 at 7:30 PM, vocalist Theo Bleckmann and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) will perform OUT COLD/ZIPPO SONGS- a double-bill of dramatic song cycles with music and lyrics by Phil Kline (Unsilent Night, John the Revelator) - presented as part of BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)'s 30th Next Wave Festival, in a co-production with American Opera Projects (AOP). (more...)
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Theo Bleckmann and ACME Perform Phil Kline's OUT COLD/ZIPPO SONGS at BAM, Now thru 10/27
by BWW News Desk - Oct 25, 2012
Tonight, October 25 through Saturday, October 27 at 7:30 PM, vocalist Theo Bleckmann and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) will perform OUT COLD/ZIPPO SONGS- a double-bill of dramatic song cycles with music and lyrics by Phil Kline (Unsilent Night, John the Revelator) - presented as part of BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)'s 30th Next Wave Festival, in a co-production with American Opera Projects (AOP). (more...)
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Maya Beiser Brings ELSEWHERE to BAM Next Wave Festival This October
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 19, 2012
Cellist Maya Beiser will see the New York premiere of her new production, ELSEWHERE, a "CelloOpera," in four performances from October 17 through 20 at 7:30pm, during the 2012 BAM Next Wave Festival in the inaugural season of the Fishman Space, part of BAM's new Richard B. Fischer Building which opens in September 2012 at 321 Ashland Place in Brooklyn. ELSEWHERE is produced by Beth Morrison Projects. (more...)
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Maya Beiser Brings ELSEWHERE to BAM Next Wave Festival This October
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 16, 2012
Cellist Maya Beiser will see the New York premiere of her new production, ELSEWHERE, a "CelloOpera," in four performances from October 17 through 20 at 7:30pm, during the 2012 BAM Next Wave Festival in the inaugural season of the Fishman Space, part of BAM's new Richard B. Fischer Building which opens in September 2012 at 321 Ashland Place in Brooklyn. ELSEWHERE is produced by Beth Morrison Projects. (more...)
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Columbia University Continues Composer Portraits Series with Jonathan Harvey Tonight, 10/11
by BWW News Desk - Oct 11, 2012
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2012-13 season of its Composer Portraits series with the works of eminent composer Jonathan Harvey, featuring Ensemble Signal with Brad Lubman, conductor. Ensemble Signal gives voice to two of the British composer's spiritual tours-de-force in this moving Portrait-Death of Light/Light of Death (1998) and Bhakti (1982). (more...)
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