I haven't seen this mentioned in the new music blogosphere yet (perhaps everyone else found out about it aeons ago) but on Sunday, June 4, there's a Bang on a Can Marathon at the World Financial Center -- part of this year's River to River festival.
The lineup is pretty sick -- after the customary Frightening of the Children at 11:30 AM, things kick off in earnest at 1 PM with Anthony Braxton's Composition #19 for 100 tubas -- or rather, 4 groups of 25 tubas. Marching.
After that, we get:
Alarm Will Sound (doing their Aphex Twin covers and hopefully some other stuff too... ?)
Amiina
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Maya Beiser
Don Byron Dominic Frasca
Gamelan Galak Tika
Gutbucket
Michael Harrison
Glenn Kotche (yes, that Glen Kotche)
Eileen Mack
Matmos
Kyaw Kyaw Naing(maybe not... ?)
William Parker with Jerome Cooper
Sentieri Selvaggi
So Percussion
Tactus
Todd Reynolds
Yat Kha
Performing music by:
John Adams
Aphex Twin
Carlo Boccadoro
Anthony Braxton
Don Byron
Anna Clyne
Paolo Coggiola (no web presence... boo)
Filippo Del Corno
Michael Gordon
Annie Gosfield
Dewa Ketut Alit
Michael Harrison
Glenn Kotche and David Cossin
Albert Kuvezin
David Lang
Paul Lansky
Kyaw Kyaw Naing (?)
Mayke Nas
Michael Nyman
William Parker
Todd Reynolds
Julia Wolfe
Evan Ziporyn
All gloriously free. It'll be like Dave Chapelle's Block Party, for new music nerds. Without the, um, block. Anyway, I'm so there.
More info on the BOAC homepage.
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