On November 7, we received scores and parts for singing in the dead of night, the 45-minute-long collaboration between Bang on a Can composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon and David Lang, and New York choreographer, Susan Marshall. Like all of our new works so far this season, this little electronic package came a little while [...]
“We have some music of this type, then, meanwhile, there is something else going on here. Meanwhile, over there there is something else entirely.” This is how Stephen Hartke describes the origin of his new piece Meanwhile, a set of six character-pieces that 8bb premiered several weeks ago at University of Richmond, as part of [...]
Since Tim joined the group I have been made painfully aware of how much I don’t listen to music. Especially new and post-classical music. Whereas Tim has already been to 57 concerts, purchased 812 CDs, and downloaded 12,349 tracks of everything from Machaut to Eötvös this week, I’ve managed to pass the first guitar battle [...]
