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A Short Piece about Long Play 2024

May 3, 2024 Gail Wein

Long Play …. Not long enough! This year’s Long Play schedule is particularly dizzying. The annual festival presented by Bang on a Can in Brooklyn, now in its third year,…

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Long Play Festival 2023

May 2, 2023 Gail Wein

In a culture in which we are constantly reinventing ourselves, any event can be the first annual anything. And so it is with Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival,…

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Bang on a Can Long Play Festival 2022: An Interview with David Lang

April 24, 2022 Gail Wein

Two years ago, I was editing a 2020 interview with the composer David Lang about the new multi-day festival that Bang on a Can planned for that spring, Long Play,…

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Live, in person and new: Contemporary music festivals in the Northeast in Summer 2021

July 22, 2021 Gail Wein

LOUD Weekend, TIME:SPANS, Tanglewood and Bard are all back on stage this summer with in-person audiences Fans starved for live music over the past year and half can rejoice and…

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Seattle Symphony unveils David Lang’s symphony without a hero

February 20, 2018 Michael Schell

David Lang’s symphony without a hero received its premiere on February 8/10 by its commissioner, Seattle Symphony and Music Director Ludovic Morlot. As usual, Lang spells his title in all…

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Liveblogging the 2012 BOAC Marathon

June 17, 2012 Rob Deemer

Last year I decided to try my hand at liveblogging the Bang on a Can Marathon concert and had so much fun doing it, I figured I’d come back and…

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Andy Akiho: An Interview

January 15, 2012 Chris McGovern

Andy Akiho may have started out as a performer only, but his heart has driven him to become not only a wonderful composer in his own right, but a composer/performer…

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BoaC shares free DL of new recording

January 3, 2012 Christian Carey

Bang on a Can is celebrating twenty-five years of music making in generous fashion. Between now and Jan. 25th, you can download their new album, Big Beautiful Dark and Scary,…

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David Lang is Writing a Piano Piece for Four Hands. Two of Them Could be Yours.

November 16, 2011 Jerry Bowles

David Lang is one of my favorite composers and among a handful of brave souls who created the vibrant new music scene we enjoy today. He and his Bang on…

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You have til the end of the year

November 11, 2011 John Clare

Here’s a contest for pianists with the music of David Lang. Read all about it here. David explains more in this video: http://youtu.be/BrmQqX_Qs5o Between November 15, 2011 and December 31,…