Bang on a Can

Real Quiet joins the Red House Alternatives series with an evening of its signature hard-edged contemporary classical music. Read More

Most listeners accept it as a given that folk song has been a powerful influence on composers of art music, from the authors of the parody Masses of the 1500s through Haydn, Beethoven and Bartok to Aaron Copland and George Crumb. Read More

Students will get the chance to see what happens when rock-infused chamber music is combined with medieval vocals on an American folk composition. Read More

Well, the recording industry has suffered from a blockbuster mentality that doesn't work very well in the internet age of the so-called "long tail" theory. Read More

Respected composer Julia Wolfe brings the world premiere of Steel Hammer with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval to the Phillips Center Friday, November 13. Read More

Indeed, the story of man vs. machine might just be as old as storytelling itself. Read More

Ah, the instrumental side project, where the "serious" musician in a relatively popular group heads to explore the ideas that are beyond the rest of his bandmates. Read More

The New World Symphony's Sounds of the Times series delved into the New York state of mind with a sampling of contemporary scores by members of the Bang on a Can collective conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky Saturday night at the Lincoln Theater. Read More

Forty years ago, had you asked a child to name a work by Thomas Arne, they would likely have answered "Where the bee sucks, there suck I". Read More