Archive, Bang on a Can, Live Music
- Saturday, July 30 4–10pm
- $5 members
$12 students, Bang alum + advance
$18 day of
$24 preferred - Hunter Center
Six-hour festival finale featuring music by our special guest composer, eco-revolutionary John Luther Adams — including In a Treeless Place, Only Snow and The Light Within — plus a rare performance of Steve Reich’s early classic Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Julia Wolfe‘s raucous Tell Me Everything, and a world premiere by Bang on a Can All-Star and festival favorite, Ken Thomson.
Times are approximate
4pm-6pm
Tell Me Everything, Julia Wolfe
Ancient Voices of Children, George Crumb
In a Treeless Place, Only Snow, John Luther Adams
sweet light crude, David T. Little
Distorting Melody, Akiko Ushijima
6pm-8pm
Protosaurus, Brian Petuch
Coming Together, Frederick Rzewski
Orchestra of Original Instruments (O of OI) led by Mark Stewart
Music for People Who Like Art, Andrew Hamilton
ark luggage, David Lang
8pm-10pm
Boil, Ken Thomson
Still Life with Avalanche, Missy Mazzoli
The Light Within, John Luther Adams
Hoketus, Louis Andriessen
Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Steve Reich
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA is made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with support from the Amphion Foundation, ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Robert Black Bass Scholarship, Herb Leventer, Henry S. McNeil, and Williamson Foundation for Music. The residency by Bang on a Can, organized in partnership with MASS MoCA, the City of North Adams, and the North Adams School District, has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. Special thanks go out to Drury High School, Williams College, and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Concert pianos provided courtesy of Falcetti Music.
photo: Caleb Blansett