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Bang on a Can Brings New Music to MASS MoCA for 14th Summer

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The sounds of new music will resound throughout the campus, galleries, hallways and concert stages of MASS MoCA for the 14th summer in a row, as the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival brings together an all-star lineup of composers, performers, teachers, and fellows. Festival highlights include a performance of…

Bang on a Can Festival Brings New Music to MASS MoCA

Concerts feature music by Julia Wolfe, Aphex Twin, David Lang, Michael Gordon(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The 12th Annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a utopian residency program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous music of our time, takes place now through Saturday, August 3,…

Steve Reich: Beauty in Repetition

by Seth Rogovoy From children’s songs like “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” to blues like “Freight Train Blues” to the Clash’s “Train in Vain,” the relentless, repetitive rhythms of the railroad have inspired countless songs that recapitulate those rhythms musically while making overt reference to them textually. But perhaps no music has ever made…

New Music Festival Celebrates First Decade

A gallery performance from Bang on a Can's 2010 Summer Music Festival (courtesy MASS MoCA)

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – From Wednesday, July 13, through Saturday, July 30, 2011, Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present the tenth annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA. The Festival is dedicated entirely to programming today’s most innovative new music and includes public performances, recitals, and lectures, plus workshops…