Bang on a Can, the new-music organization founded in 1987 by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, has announced a three-day festival to take place in May 2020 in Brooklyn. The May 1-3 festival, entitled LONG PLAY, will feature concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roulette, Public Records, ShapeShifter Lab, Littlefield, and Brooklyn Music School, among other sites. Music highlights will include: Steve Reich’s 2×5 for two rock bands and Electric Counterpoint for fourteen electric guitars; Art Ensemble of Chicago in a program entitled “Great Black Music—Ancient to the Future”; Meredith Monk’s Memory Game; Galina Ustvolskaya’s six piano sonatas, performed by Jenny Lin; John Luther Adams’s Strange and Sacred Noise, performed by Left Edge Percussion and the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble; and Michael Gordon’s Timber, performed by Mantra Percussion. Performers will range from Estonia’s Vox Clamantis choir and cellist/composer Zoë Keating to Attacca Quartet, the Mediaqueer duo (composer/performers Darian Donovan Thomas and Phong Tran), Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and Asphalt Orchestra.
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