Saturday, August 1, 2009, 4:00 pm
Hunter Center
$24/ Members 10% discount.
Member tickets are not available via the internet.

As part of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Bang on a Can brings its signature event back to the Berkshires! 30+ musicians and composers from around the world team up for 6-hours on non-stop, boundary smashing music. Highlights to include George Antheil’s futuristic classic Ballet Mećanique (Listen now!) in which the "ballet" is not a show of human dancers but of mechanical instruments -- player pianos, airplane propellers, and electric bells and more, John Adams’ riveting Shaker Loops,(Listen now!) a four-part piece for seven solo strings in which each instrument is assigned a "loop" of melodic material which, when heard together, results in constantly shifting play; and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang’s Pierced, a rhythmic smorgasbord that seems to pull from jazz, rock, and dub-step realms all at once, and much more!This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

Galleries open until 8 PM.

Marathon Program
4 PM

• Still Life with Avalanche by Missy Mazzoli
• Three Heavens and Hells by Meredith Monk
• Friction Systems by David M. Gordon
• Cat o' Nine Tails by John Zorn
• East meets West arrangements of music (including a tune by Thom Yorke) for Western and Central Asian instruments

• Pierced by David Lang
• Song and Dance by Frederic Rzewski
• Distorted Indulgence by Lok Yin Tang
• The Boat by Lisa Bielawa
• Snakes & Ladders by Fred Frith

• Music from Kyrgyzstan
• Dark Full Ride by Julia Wolfe
• BachFeet "Brownie you're doin' a heck of a job” by Eve Beglarian
• Shaker Loops by John Adams
• Music from Uzbekistan
• Light is Calling by Michael Gordon
• Ballet Mecanique by George Antheil