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The Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur "genius" co-founder of Bang on a Can looks for the grit in music, whether she's writing a string quartet or one of her history-based oratorios.
2022-07-16 05:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 16, 2022
Three Phil Kline Concerts to be Featured at Bang on a Can ConcertComposer-performer Phil Kline, long associated with Bang on a Can, will present three concerts of new and beloved works during LOUD Weekend, the three-day culmination of the annual Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. This year's festival, which presents an eclectic mix of experimental music, occurs from July 28-30.Kline kicks off the weekend on Thursday, July 28 with a loud, live electric guitar performance with filmmaker and lifelong friend Jim Jarmusch at the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA. The duo will perform their soundtrack to the forgotten sci-fi classic Destination Moon, which will be accompanied by early New York footage shot by Thomas Edison. This lively performance is a byproduct of their work-in-progress Thirty Three Short Operas About Nikola Tesla, which explores the great inventor's 50 years of life in New York […]
2022-05-13 08:02:09
The Earth Moves: The Tallis Scholars in Antoine Brumel and David Lang
[…] and then changes suddenly and it is these changes of gear that give the work its impetus. Gombert's Agnus Dei was also richly textured and had a similar feel, bringing the mass to a conclusion with glorious waves of sound. It worked well with just 12 voices in St Martin in the Fields, but I still hanker after a performance with 50 singers in a larger acoustic. David Lang, co-founder of the American musical collective Bang on a Can, is best known for his 2007 work, The Little Match Girl Passion; written for Paul Hiller and Theatre of Voices it has been taken up by many other ensembles. For his companion piece to the Brumel, Lang wrote sun-centred, a deeply philosophical work based on a pun. When tried by the Roman Catholic Church for his claim that the Earth moved around the Sun, Galileo formally recanted but is reputed to have said […]
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