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"Bang on a Can" is the name of a New York festival of new music that was inaugurated in 1987.
Bang On A Can All-Stars is a supergroup of sort, formed by six veteran
musicians
(Maya Beiser on cello, Robert Black on bass, Lisa Moore on keyboards, Steven Schick on percussion, Mark Stewart on guitar, Evan Ziporyn on clarinet)
under the aegis of the festival's directors:
Julia Wolfe, David Lang and Michael Gordon.
They perform creative interpretations of pieces by avantgarde composers.
Industry (Sony, 1995) includes Gordon's Industry,
Wolfe's Lick and Lang's The Anvil Chorus.
Cheating, Lying, Stealing (Sony, 1996) is titled after Lang's
Cheating, Lying, Stealing but is mainly taken up by
Didkovsky's Amalia's Secret.
These first two albums were later collected on
Bang on a Can Classics (Cantaloupe, 2002).
Renegade Heaven (Cantaloupe, 2001) includes
Gordon's I Buried Paul, dedicated to Paul McCartney, and
Wolfe's Exquisite Corpses and Believing.
Lost Objects (Teldec, 2001) for vocal soloists, mixed chorus, orchestra and turntablist, is an oratorio composed by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe around Deborah Artman's libretto. All in all, it proves the compositional
limits of the trio.
Maya Beiser and Steven Schick have also released
Caught By The Sky With Wire (OO, 2001).
Evan Ziporyn's Typical Music (2006) collects a Piano Trio (2001),
Pondok (2000) for solo piano, and
Ngaben (2003) for Balinese gamelan orchestra and Western orchestra.
David Lang was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer prize for his composition
The Little Match Girl Passion, inspired by both fairy tales and Bach.
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