Tyondai Braxton

As I left the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival on its closing night, Saturday, May 5, I couldn't escape the feeling that I had wasted so much time -- not at the festival itself, but long before. Read More

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 14, 2012 The 2012 World Science Festival ( http://www.worldsciencefestival.com ) today announced an impressive line-up of cutting-edge science programs for its fifth anniversary season, May 30th to June 3rd, 2012 with more than 50 events designed to make the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating. Read More

Bang on a Can 's 25 years have been a story of unending metastasis: from a single marathon concert to a touring ensemble to a summer festival to a commissioning fund to a record label and beyond. Read More

Deviant Septet --an acclaimed ensemble modeled after Igor Stravinskys favored instrumentation of violin, bass, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, and percussion--will perform the NYC premiere of a new collaborative evening-length work entitled Histories, written by six-piece composer collective Sleeping Giant, on May 24th at Brooklyn's Issue Project Room. Histories is Sleeping Giant 's first-ever collaborative piece and was written exclusively for Deviant Septet to serve as a companion piece to Igor Stravinksy's LHistoire du Soldat, the piece after which the Septet is modeled. Read More

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Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center's Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra , and MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert (on Mother's Day in 1987 in a SoHo art gallery) to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range of year-round international activities. 25 celebration at Lincoln Center opens with MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika performing its signature piece, Bang on a Can All-Stars founding clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn 's Tire Fire," a blend of ancient tradition and modern technology that The New York Times describes as "an exuberant blast of metal fireworks."Read More