Captivating winter warmer from the Bang on a Can

By Frank Kuznik, 01 March 2015

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“returned to subterranean depths, sounding like an army of dwarfs pounding on anvils”

Reviewed at Oberlin College: Finney Chapel, Oberlin on 28 February 2015

Lang, Sunray

Wolfe, Believing

Moore, Ridgeway

Gordon, For Madeline

Martland, Horses of Instruction

Glass, Glassworks (“Closer")

Bang on a Can All-Stars

Prom 44: Michael Gordon's genre-defying Big Space

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 17th August

Well known for their genre-busting and boundary-defying music, Bang on the Can delivered a splendid Late Night Prom.

*****

A ghost of an opera at BAM

Jacob Slattery, 7th September

David Lang’s new opera the loser opened the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday night, but simply lacked theatricality.

*1111

Voices, voices in space, and spaces: Thoughts on 50 years of Meredith Monk

Rebecca Lentjes, 22nd March

Carnegie’s Zankel Hall hosts a four and a half hour celebration of the work of Meredith Monk.

*****

Bang on a Can and the New York Phil

Rebecca Lentjes, 31st May

In addition to the “Mickey Pick-Slate” chants, the score of Anthracite Fields incorporates the banging of a can, the spinning of bicycle wheels, whistling, and shouting.

****1

Minimalism with a bang: Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Cabaret Contemporain in Paris

Leopold Tobisch, 28th September

Bang on a Can All-Stars are by no means small fish in a big pond. Their work within the world of minimalist and contemporary music, as well as their collaboration with some of the biggest names in 20th-century music, has made of them today a name respected by any fan of John Cage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley or Brian Eno (to name but a few of the best).

*****

A Scream and an Outrage: Session Two at LSO St Luke's

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 11th May

The title for this Barbican event certainly threw up some interesting questions. Having failed to attend a riotous dinner party that was characterised by one attendee as “a scream and an outrage”, Nico Muhly set about curating a series of concerts under this title. However, no screams or outrages occurred this weekend.

***11

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.

A captivating winter warmer from the Bang on a Can All-Stars