At the Barbican Centre in London, on March 20, 2012, the Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere Field Recordings — with new works by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe. The evening-length project that is as much a mystery as a concert – a kind of ghost story. The ghosts aren’t the physical presence of people gone before, but they are the ghosts of sounds, images, ideas, and voices. Each composer has been asked to find and interact with something recorded before, using the power of music made right in front of us to reach out to other things not present…
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February 8–February 11, 2012
Idle – Take Dance Company, Inc.
Acquanetta (2005, rev. 2017) 70'
Text by Deborah Artman, CHAMBER VERSION: 3 Sopranos, Tenor, Bass, with female choir, plus amplified chamber ensemble
ORCHESTRA VERSION: S, Mz, A, T, Bar; SATB chorus, 2(2pic).2.3.1+cbsn/2321/2perc/kbd.eb/str
Acquanetta was commissioned by Theater Aachen, supported by NRW KULTURsekretariat (Wuppertal) and North Rhine-Westphalia Government, Ministry for Urban Development, Culture and Sport from the "Fonds Neues Musiktheater" Chamber version of Acquanetta commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, with lead funding from Linda and Stuart Nelson, for PROTOTYPE Festival 2018.
Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony (2006) 22'
3.2.3.2+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.4perc/ebgtr/str
Beethoven-Fest Bonn
Paint It Black (1988) 11'
solo double bass
The Minnesota Composers Forum
[purgatorio] POPOPERA (2008) 20'
6 electric guitars
Emio Greco|PC
for Madeline (2009) 8'
cl, egtr, perc, pno, vc, db [all instruments amplified]
Lincoln Center for the Bang on a Can All-Stars in celebration of the re-opening of Alice Tully Hall
XY (1997) 15'
5 tuned drums
Evelyn Glennie
Bang on a Can All-Stars Premiere Field Recordings
Rewriting Beethoven’s 7th Symphony UK Premiere
On May 7, London’s Barbican Centre presents the BBC Symphony in the UK premiere of Michael Gordon’s Rewriting Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. Commissioned by the Beethoven-Bonn Festival and premiered by the Bamberger Symphoniker in 2006, Gordon’s remarkable re-imagining filters one of the classics of the classics through the lens of the 21st-century. Not looking to improve on the work’s timeless quality, but to imagine ‘what if someone unknowingly used this material in the course of writing his or her new work?’
Gordon writes:
Read more…Beethoven’s brutish and loud music has always inspired me…
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