Bang on a Can Allstars performing Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" as part of the Long Play festival on May 5, 2024 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (photo: Stephanie Berger). For the past 30 ...

Long before MASS MoCA began hosting Wilco’s Solid Sound and the FreshGrass music festivals, the sprawling North Adams museum and performance space offered the Berkshires and the Capital Region ...

NORTH ADAMS -- George Crumb is one of modern music's revolutionaries, and if anyone doubted that notion it was dispelled at Bang on a Can's 2010 Summer Festival, Saturday at Mass MoCA. "George Crumb ...

Orchestra of Original Instruments performs Thursday at Bang on a Can's LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA. (Greg Nesbit/MASS MoCA) Column by Michael Andor Brodeur NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — If there’s a problem with ...

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 ...

Previous acquaintance had been with a more expansive compositional ambition: Wolfe’s LAD for nine bagpipers as transcribed by the phenomenal Sean Shibe for nine electric guitars (his new CD featuring ...

Not that it’s much of a surprise anymore, but Bang On A Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund performance will maintain their quarter-century-long open channel between contemporary composers and ...

On Monday, SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts presents a unique (and free) opportunity to hear Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon’s mesmerizing concert length percussion masterpiece Timber. Mantra ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by spring preview Onstage, Denzel Washington is Othello, and Paul Mescal is Stanley Kowalski as stars illuminate the theater marquees. Plus: FKA twigs ...

For the past 30 years, few groups have been as synonymous with the experimental music spirit of New York than Bang on a Can, and few pieces embody that spirit more than Steve Reich’s landmark 1976 ...