Archive
- Weekdays July 16 – 28, 2021
- Free with gallery admission
- MASS MoCA
Leading up to the finale of Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the galleries. Join us for some of today’s most exciting new music performed on most weekdays at 1:30pm and 4:30pm.
Gallery concerts are free with museum admission, which can be purchased here. Museum admission is always free for members. Not yet a member? Become one here.
SCHEDULE
Weekdays July 19–July 28 at 1:30pm: Lunchtime concert series
Friday, July 16, 4:30pm: Senegalese Drumming with Lamine Toure and Bang on a Can Fellows
Saturday, July 17, 2pm: Bang on a Can Festival Faculty and Fellows play Community Day
Monday, July 19, 4:30pm: Nick Photinos, cello
Aphex Twin: Avril 14 (arr. Nick Photinos 2020)
Susanna Hancock: EVERYTHING IN BLOOM (2020)
Spencer Arias: The stars that shine brightest in our eyes (2020, world premiere)
Dayton Kinney: September Red (2020, world premiere)
Alex Burtzos: PWr CHRDs (2020, world premiere)
Monty Adkins: Winter Tendrils (2014, rev. 2020)
Leanna Primiani: Anxiety (2021, cello version world premiere)
Dolly Parton: Light of a Clear Blue Morning (arr. Nick Photinos 2021)
Svante Henryson: Figure 8’s from Suite Off Pist (2019, w/Ken Thomson, clarinet)
Tuesday, July 20, 4:30pm: Mark Stewart and special guests
(fretted and feral instruments)
Music for Barn Instruments — Mark Stewart
Music for Gunnar Instruments — Mark Stewart (ft. David Cossin, percussion)
Subaquatic Meditation — Jonathan Bailey Holland
To Whom it May Concern: Thank You — Mark Stewart
Gallery: 6.3 Outside Gunnar Schonbeck
Wednesday, July 21, 4:30pm: Karl Larson plays Scott Wollschleger
Program:
Dark Days
Tiny Oblivion
Blue Inscription
Lyric Fragment
Brontal 4 “Holiday”
Brontal 6
Brontal 11 “I-80”
Secret Machine no. 4
Secret Machine no. 6
Thursday, July 22, 4:30pm: Todd Reynolds, violin
Saturday, July 24, 4:30pm: Vicky Chow, piano
Caroline Shaw – Gustave Le Gray (2012)
Felipe Lara – Injust Intonations (#BLackLivesMatter) (2016)
Tomeka Reid – Lamenting G.F., A.A., B.T., T.M. (2020)
Tania León – Rituál (1987)
Monday, July 26, 4:30pm: Festival Ensemble
Steve Martland – Horses of Instruction (1994)
Louis Andriessen – Workers Union (1975)
Saxophone, Julian Velasco
Percussion, Riley Palmer
Piano, Andrew Anderson
elec guitar, MARK STEWART
Cello, ARLEN HLUSKO
bass/bass guitar, GREGG AUGUST
Tuesday, July 27, 4:30pm: Gregg August, bass
Wednesday, July 28, 4:30pm: Festival Composers World Premieres – Short Works
World premiere performances of short works composed during the Bang on a Can Festival by composer fellows Brian Krock, Lila Meretzky, Christian Quinones, Nathan Bales, Erich Barganier, Melika Fitzhugh, and Theo Baer.
Performed by:
Ken Thomson, saxophone
Julian Velasco, saxophone
Nick Photinos, cello
Karl Larson, piano
Adam Holmes, percussion