Thank you for coming to Long Play!
Long Play 2024 was amazing!
We are so grateful to our audience, our artists, and our venue partners for making it such a success!
Photo slideshow coming soon!
Julia Wolfe and Bang on a Can at Cincinnati’s May Festival
– May 18, 23, and 25
We’re super excited to share the news that Julia Wolfe has been named the inaugural festival director for Cincinnati’s historic May Festival. The annual festival will feature 3 powerful and poignant concerts on May 18, May 23, and May 25 featuring a world premiere by Julia Wolfe and multiple additional works including her pulitzer-prize winning oratorio Anthracite Fields with our own Bang on a Can All-Stars + the May Festival Chorus, telling the story of the Pennsylvania coal miners; Her Story, with Lorelei vocal ensemble + the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, focusing on American women’s struggle for equal rights; orchestral and choral works by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and more!
May 18: Anthems (link to Live Stream)
Julia WOLFE: All that breathes (May Festival Commission; World Premiere)
David LANG: the national anthems
Julia WOLFE: Pretty
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Dona nobis pacem
Featuring:
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone
May Festival Chorus
May Festival Youth Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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May 23: Voices of the Earth
Michael GORDON: Natural History
Julia WOLFE: Anthracite Fields (BOAC All-Stars)
Featuring:
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Steiger Butte Singers of Chiloquin,Oregon
Bang on a Can All-Stars
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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May 25: Julia Wolfe’s Her Story
Julia WOLFE: Her Story
FAURÉ: Requiem
Featuring:
François López-Ferrer, conductor
Lorelei Ensemble
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA
– Aug 1-3
Come on up to the Berkshires for LOUD Weekend 2024!
Aug 1-3
Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is a fully loaded, three-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental, and unusual music.
For 23 of our 25 years, the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival has transformed MASS MoCA into a genre-bending musical utopia for innovative composers and performers. Over three weeks, every nook and cranny of the campus comes alive with performances, workshops, and seminars focused on adventurous new music—culminating in LOUD Weekend, when renowned special guests, BoaC faculty, and young players take the Hunter Center stage in a series of playful and heady collisions of jazz, classical, rock, and beyond.
Support Jeffrey Brooks’ Memory Palace!
Support the recording of Jeffrey Brooks’ Memory Palace! Premiered at Bang on a Can’s 2023 LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA, Brooks’ latest work features his own invention, the stein-o-caster. Jeffrey Brooks is an American composer living in Minneapolis, MN. He was the Artistic Director at the American Composers Forum and the NPR show Composers Voice. A long-time collaborator of Bang on a Can, we are looking forward to releasing his latest album on Cantaloupe Records.
Click here to view the premiere of Memory Palace and make a donation in support of Jeff’s music!
https://bangonacan.org/brooksrecording/