Cabaret Contemporain @ Bang On a Can Marathon (US)

Bang on a Can returns to lower Manhattan’s River to River Festival with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the globe.

Co-presented by LMCC and Pace University as part of the River To River Festival 2013. 

Starting at 12 noon till 5pm, Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation will host its unique Street Studio: a mobile recording studio equipped for passersby and Marathon musicians alike to spontaneously create and record original music. The Street Studio will be stationed just in front of Pace University on Park Row & Spruce Street.

1 PM

• Derek Bermel: Canzonas Americanas, Mvt 1: « El Dude »
  • Alarm Will Sound
• Jeffrey Brooks: After the Treewatcher
  • Alarm Will Sound
• Peter Evans: solo
  • Peter Evans, trumpet
• Charlie Piper: zoetrope
  • Alarm Will Sound
• Caleb Burhans: oh ye of little faith… (do you know where your children are?)
  • Alarm Will Sound
• Lukas Ligeti: lakoni in kazonnde*
  • David Cossin & Ben Reimer, drums
• Cabaret Contemporain [to be announced from stage]

3PM

• Shara Worden: Before the Words
  • Brooklyn Youth Chorus
• Nico Muhly: Short Prayers in Respect of a Storm
  • Brooklyn Youth Chorus with Aleeza Meir piano and string quartet
• Kendall Williams: Conception*
  • NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble / NYUSTEEL, Jonathan Haas, Director/Conductor
• Yungchen Llamo & Anton Batagov: Medicine Buddha, White Palace
  • Yungchen Llamo, voice & Anton Batagov, piano
• John King: Astral Epitaphs
  • Brooklyn Youth Chorus,  TILT, & John King, live electronics
• Talk Normal: XO, Shot This Time, Dedicate This Song
  • Talk Normal
• Tom Zé (arr. Stephanie Richards) Mā
  • Asphalt Orchestra

5 PM

• Asphalt Orchestra [to be announced from stage]
• Julia Wolfe With a blue dress on**
  • Monica Germino, violin
• Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee (Ten canons for nine instruments)
  • Talea Ensemble
• Angélica Negrón: Drawings for Meyoko
  • Hotel Elefant

7 PM

• Cabaret Contemporain [to be announced from stage]
• David Lang: death speaks
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars & Shara Worden, voice
• Tamar Muskal: Mar de Leche
  • Maya Beiser, cello with the Provenance Project Band
• Annea Lockwood: Vortex
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars

9 PM

• Michael Gordon: Yo Shakespeare
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Tatsuya Yoshida: Zwimbarrac Khafzavrapp
  • Asphalt Orchestra

* World Premiere
** US Premiere