Saturday, July 26, 2008, 5:00 pm
Hunter Center
$24
Member tickets are not available via the internet.

Highlights of this signature event of the Festival will include special guest Terry Riley, music by Frank Zappa, AND and the mixed media oratorio Shelter, a visually stunning collaboration from Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and with films by Bill Morrison and projections by Laurie Olinder.

30+ musicians and composers of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival join for 6-hours of non-stop, boundary smashing music highlighted by rarely performed works of the late-great Frank Zappa. Come and go as you please, grab a drink or a snack, or stroll through the exhibitions -- Galleries open until 8 PM. Hunter Center.

Come early: Lickety Split serves dinner, snacks, and ice cream before the show or visit Café Latino on the MASS MoCA campus. There are also many great restaurants in North Adams that are within walking distance of the campus

MARATHON program *******************************

• Judd Greenstein, Get Up/Get Down
• Lois V Vierk, Timberline
• Terry Riley, Woelfli Portraits
• Didgeridoo and Percussion Trio

• Christopher Adler, Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze
• Morton Feldman, The O’Hara Songs
• Ken Thomson, seasonal disorder
• Iannis Xenakis, N’Shima
• Terry Riley, Olson III

• Traditional (arr Wayan Loceng), Sekar Ginotan Evan Ziporyn, Cu (Ba Li) Bre (Balinese gamelan gender wayang)
• Donald Crockett, Whistling in the Dark
• Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Shelter (Deborah Artman, texts / Bill Morrison, film / Laurie Olinder, projections)
• Terry Riley and friends, improvisation
• Frank Zappa, the Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat and G-Spot Tornado