Bang on a Can. All-Stars November 5, 2010

Upcoming Events
Bang on a Can All-Stars
November 5, 2010 8:00pm

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Fred Frith: Snakes and Ladders
Louis Andriessen: Life, with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam
David Lang: sunray
Brian Eno: Music for Airports 2/2
Michael Nyman: Manhatta, with film by Paul Strand (arr. Andy Keenan)
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A new generation of virtuosic and passionate performers was needed to make this music come alive.

At the very beginning of Bang on a Can, founders Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julie Wolfe recognized that their new and open approach to presenting required new and open performers. A new generation of virtuosic and passionate performers was needed to make this music come alive. These new players needed new skills. They had to be able to cross musical boundaries, and be at home with many styles and technologies. And they had to be amazing.

Michael, David and Julie quickly started assembling a core of such exciting, dedicated and versatile players, and these performers started showing up with regularity from festival to festival. Out of this core, in 1992, they assembled the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Clarinets, cello, keyboard, electric guitar, bass, and drums – it is part rock band and part amplified chamber group.

Official Website: http://bangonacan.org