Brooklyn 30 LafayetteAvenue CommunicationsDepartment Academy Brooklyn NY 11217- 1486 Elena Park of Telephone:718 .636.4111 Melissa Cusick Music Fax, 718.857 .2021 Amy Hughes TamaraMccaw Kila Packett 718.636.4129 [email protected] News Release BAM's 2000 Next Wave Festival and present the Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon

For the first time, Bang on a Can brings its annual eight-hour music marathon to BAM, with more than 20 cutting-edge works performed by more than 100 international musicians

Bang on a Can All-Stars Scott Johnson Ensemble Iva Bittova (BoaC debut) Phil Kline Theo Bleckmann Lionheart (BoaC debut) Ethel (with ) Steve Martland Band (U.S. debut) Gamelan Galak Tika Scanner (BoaC debut) Michael Gordon Band Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker (BoaC debut) Hassan Hakmoun & Friends Talvin Singh & Steven Schick Huutajat (U.S. debut) PamelaZ

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Dec 10, 2-l0pm Tickets: $25 (general admission)

Related BAMcafe Live programming Guy Klucevsek/Phillip Johnston Duo Dec 7 at 9pm

BAMcinematek On Stage/On Film World premiere of Let 's Meet in the Ocean*, Frank Scheffer 's contemporary music documentar y featuring Ban g on a Can December 7 at 4:30 , 6:50*, & 9:30pm *Followed by Q&A with Frank Scheffer

BROOKLYN, November 17, 2000--Brookl yn Academy of Music (BAM)'s 2000 Next Wave 0 Festival comes to a close when New York's genre-defying Bang on a Can brings its famous marathon to BAM for the first time . The Bang on a Can Marathon , a popular annua l event, always 0 features an eclectic mix of innovative new music; this year's lineup is the most adventurous program to date. The Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon in Brooklyn wi ll include eight hours 0 of non-stop music , featuring more than 100 international musicians performing a stylistic N more ... NextWave Festival Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon 2 potpourri of music including minimalism , Balinese gamelan , classical , Indian raga , jazz , bottle-neck blues, Eastern European folk, and rock and roll. Throughout the marathon , audiences are welcome to come and go as they please , in order to leisurely sample the diverse line-up of international artists and music . The marathon will take place at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Avenue) on December 10 from 2-1 0pm.

Highlights of this year's Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon include the U.S . debut of the Finnish virtuoso shouting choir Huutajat , London-based tabla master Talvin Singh, 21st century chants by a capp ella masters Lionheart, Czech avant-folk songstress Iva Bittova , Moroccan singer and dancer Hassan Hakmoun , the culture ­ clashing sounds of Game Ian Galak Tika , free jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, the U.S. debut of ' s post­ minimal Steve Martland Band, and ambient waves of surreptitiously recorded cell phone conversations by London electronic wizard Scanner. The concert also will feature world premieres of works by Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, , and commissioned by BAM especially for this occasion. The Bang on a Can All-Stars , Bang on a Can 's house band, will perform a series of premieres , including David Lang's new settings of Lou Reed's songs "Sunday Morning " and "Heroin ." Music by , Elena Kats­ Chernin , Steve Martland , Evan Ziporyn, Pamela Z, and more rounds out the program . Information about the performers follows; for a complete program list as well as the running order, visit www.bam.org or www.ba ngonacan .org .

WNYC 93.9 FM's New Sounds program , hosted by John Schaefer , will broadcast the final three hours of the marathon from 9pm-midnight on December 10. Each New Sounds program during the following week will feature another hour of music from the event. New Sounds airs at 11pm , Monday-Friday. For more information about New Sounds, visit www.wnyc.org.

BAM's Next Wave Festival, now in its eighteenth year, presents thirteen dance , music , and theater events through December 10, sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. For Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon tickets , priced at $25 (general admission) , or tickets to other Next Wave events , call BAM Ticket Services at 7 18.636.4100, Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100, or visit BAM 's web site at www.bam .org.

About Bang on a Can

Upon arriving in New York City in the early 1980s, Michael Gordon , David Lang , and Juli a Wolfe were in searc h of a brave new musical world. As part of a new generation of composers who did not fit comfortably into either the academically-rooted "uptown " or improvisationally-based "downtown" music scenes in New York at that time , Gordon , Lang, and Wolfe decided to create a scene of their own. Together, they presented the first Bang on a Can Marathon in 1987. The twelve-hour concert took place in an art gallery in So Ho and featured works by twenty -eight composers , almost all of whom were there . Although such well -known composers as , , Pauline Oliveros , and Milton Babbitt were featured, most of the music was by young, genre-defying , unknown, and emerging composers. The search for unknown composers has remained central to Bang on a Can' s mission to this day. The response to the first Marathon was tremendous and it has become an important fixture on New York's music scene. Over the years , BoaC has expanded to include a number of other activities: the six-member Bang on a Can All-Stars ; the OBIE Award winning comic-bo ok opera The Carbon Copy Building ; The People 's Commissioning Fund-a program that commissions emerging compo sers; regular tou ring throughout the United States and abroad ; and a new record label, CANTALOUPE , that will launch in early 2001. The label's first release, Renegade Heaven, currently is available on Ban g on a Can 's website (www. bangonacan .org).

Michael Gordon 's compositions demonstrate a deep exploration into the possibilities and nature ofrhythm and what happen s when rhythms are piled on top of each other, creating a glorious confusion. John Adams , who has con ducted Gordon ' s works with the London Sinfonietta and , calls these raw and complicated sounds " irrational rhythms." Gordon's special interest in adding dimensions to the concert experience has led to frequent co llaboratio ns with artists in other media. In his string orchestra piece Weather, a collaboration with Emmy awa rd-winning video artist Elliot Caplan that recently toured German y, the musicians sit on scaffolding three tiers high . In his upcoming multimedia orchestra piece , Decasia, a commission from Basel Sinfonietta, the

more ... Bang on a Can Mill ennium Marathon 3 audience sits on swivel chairs encircled by the orchestra and large projection scrims. Gordon ' s music has been presented at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, The Kitchen, the Koiner Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall , the Bonn Oper , the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival , and the Rotterdam, , St. Petersburg , Huddersfield , Settembre, and the upcoming Dresden music festivals . He has been a featured artist in the repertoires of Ensemble Modern and London's Icebreaker Ensemble . Recent commissions include the Kronos Quartet, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts , the Ensemble Modern Orchestra , the BBC Proms, The Seimens Kulturprogram, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. In 1983, Gordon formed the Michael Gordon Philharmonic-part string quartet, part rock band- which performed his angular tunes and driving rhythms with compelling energy and off-beat humor in conceits worldwide. The latest incarnation of this ensemble is now called the Michael Gordon Band. His CDs include Weather (Nonesuch), Trance (Argo) and Big Noise from Nicaragua (CRJ).

David Lang 's distinct sound fuses the tradition of classical music with urban aggressiveness , with melodies accompanied by noise and subtle harmonies pulled apart by pounding rhythms. He has been commissioned by organizations such as the San Francisco Symphony, the Santa Fe Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra , and the Cleveland Orchestra. His music has been featured regularly at music festivals , in orchestra concerts , and in theaters around the world , and in the choreography of Twyla Tharp , La La La Human Steps, The Nederlands Dans Theater , and the Royal Ballet. Lang's music was last heard at BAM in The Most Dangerous Room in the House for choreographer Susan Marshall , for which he received a Bessie Award in 1999. Lang is composer-in­ residence at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco . He currently is working on The Difficulty of Crossing a Field , a fully staged opera for the Kronos Quartet, with a libretto by Mac Wellman. His dark and meditative piece The Passing Measures will be released on CANTALOUPE records in February 2001.

Julia Wolfe was born in Philadelphia in 1958. She recently has received commissions from Septembre Musica (Jtaly), Kronos Quartet , The Library of Congress , Public Radio, the Koussevitzky Foundation , the American Composers Orchestra, Meet The Composer , the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust , and The Huddersfield Festival. Her works have been performed at numerous concerts and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad including the Holland Festival, BAM's Next Wave Festival, the San Francisco Symphony's Wet Ink Series , Tanglewood , Other Minds Festival, the Adelaide Festival, The Israel Festival , South Bank ' s Meltdown Festival and the BBC Proms. Wolfe currently is developing an evening length work with theater artist Anna Deavere Smith. Recent projects have included collaborations on a new comic book opera , The Carbon Copy Building, with artist Ben Katchor, Ridge Theater , and composers Michael Gordon and David Lang. She also is collaborating with playwrights Mac Wellman and Susan Mosakowski on upcoming music theater works. A CD of her music , Julia Wolfe - Arsenal of Democracy , is available on Point Records (Universal ). Other recordings of her wor k can be heard on Sony Classical , Argo/Decca , and CRI.

About the performer s

Brought together by the Bang on a Can Festival in 1992, the Bang on a Can All-Stars is internationally recognized for its performances of today's most innovative new music . The group is comprised of cellist Maya Beiser , bassist Robert Black, pianist Lisa Moore, percussionist Steven Schick , electric guitarist Mark Stewart , and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn; Joseph Carver will substitute for Black on this engagement. Part classical ensemble , part rock band, part jazz band, the All-Stars have a flexibility that represents the vision of the festival. Recent and upcoming recordings include Bang on a Can/Steve Reich (April 2000 , Nonesuch ); Renegade Heaven (2001 , CANTALOUPE) ; Music for Airports (1998, Point Music) featuring Bang on a Can ' s unique arrangements of 's landmark ambient piece ; Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1996 , Sony Classical) ; and Industry (1995 , Sony Classical) . Embracing a wide range of musical languages from classica l to world music, from contemporary music to alternative rock, Maya Beiser is internationally acclaimed as a leading vi1tuoso performer on the cutting edge of the musical world. During the current season and next year she will be premiering works written for her by Steve Reich, Meredith Monk , John Zorn , Tan Dun , Anthony Davis , Julia Wolf, Nana Vasconcelos , and Osvaldo Golijov, among others. Joseph Carver began playing the double bass at the age of fourteen . He performs frequently at music festivals in the U.S. and France, including Marlboro , Prussia Cove , Les Recontres Musicales de Haute Provence, and Musique a L 'Empiri. He has toured and

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performed with ensembles such as the Musicians from Marlboro, the Takacs and Cherubini String Quartets, Les Arts Florissants, L'Ensemble Intercontemporaine , Les Solistes de Moscouw, L'Ensemble Moderne, and the Bang On A Can All-Stars. Joe has been a regular member of L'Orchestre des Champs Elysees since 1992. Lisa Moore has commissioned and premiered many new works and, as a specialist in diversity, she has worked with a broad spectrum of composers in music and music-theater , from Milton Babbitt to Meredith Monk. Three solo discs (on the label Tall Poppies) , include Stroke (made up of new Australian music) , The complete piano works of Janacek, and Purple, Black and Blues (featuring the piano music of Elena Kats-Chern in). She also has performed with the New York City Ballet , Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Luke ' s Orchestra, Barge Music, Cassat Quartet, Steve Reich Ensemble, Sydney Symphony, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. For the past twenty years , percussionist Steven Schick has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher, commissioning and premiering more than one hundred new works for percussion. He has performed these works internationally and recorded many of them for Sony Classical , Wergo, Newport Classics , Neu ma, 00 Discs, and Point, among others. Schick is a professor of music at the University of California , San Diego and a lecturer in percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. Electric guitarist Mark Stewart has been heard around the world performing old and new music. Stewart currently tours and records with Paul Simon and spent the summer of 1999 performing at Lincoln Center in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night featuring Helen Hunt , Kyra Sedgwick , and Paul Rudd. Stewart also is a member of Steve Reich and Musicians , David Krakauer 's Klezmer Madness!, Polygraph Lounge, The Fred Frith Guitar Quartet , and Zeena Parkin ' s Gangster Band. Evan Ziporyn (clarinets /saxophones) is a composer/clarinetist whose work is informed by his 20-year involvement with the traditional music of Bali. He is founder and director of Boston 's Gamelan Galak Tika, for whom he has written a series of innovative works for gamelan and western instruments. He also is a touring member of the Steve Reich Ensemble. Other collaborators include the Kronos Quartet, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble , Ensemble Modern, and more.

Permanently osc illating between folk and contemporary music, Czech musician Iva Bittova has created an origi nal and totally individual way of playing music. She describes her style as "my ow n personal folk music." Bittova frequently runs the gamut of emotions within one song-laughing and crying , cackling like a hen , chirping like a bird , and slapping her tongue all within the same piece while simultaneously playing her violin. Since 1991, Bittova has created six solo CDs including 44 Duets for Two Violins by Bela Bart6k; her latest release is The White Inferno from 1997. In addition to her solo concerts, and engagements with her husband , Pavel Fajt , Bittova has performed many concerts with other well-known musicians such as Jiri Stivin, Emil Viki icky, Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, and David Moss. Bittova also has performed with many ensembles including the S.E.M. Ensemble, in the Czech Republic , throughout Europe, and in the United States.

A versa ti le vocalist and composer of jazz, Theo Bleckmann has been cal led a "v irtuoso jazz improviser " by the Village Voice. The San Francisco Chronicle called him "ext remely impressive ." Performing throughout North America and Europe as a band leader and as a soloist , he has worked with musicians and composers such as Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser , Dave Douglas , , Peter Herbert, Sheila Jordan , Meredith Monk , lkue Mori , and Ned Rothenberg, among others . He also has performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Com pany and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Bleckmann also was a junior champion in ice dancing in his native West Germany. A principal in Bang on a Can ' s Obie Award-winning opera The Carbon Copy Building, Bleckmann currently performs as the lead singer in John Morran's Book of the Dead at the Public Theater.

Ethel (formerly known as Hazardous Materials) is a 21st-century realization of the classical string quartet model featuring uptown and downtown performing stalwarts Ralph Farris, Doroth y Lawson, Todd Reynold s, and Mary Rowell. The ensemble's credentials range from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Steve Reich Ensemble to the Sheryl Crow Band and the Roger Daltrey Band. The members of Ethel bring together a vast spec trum of performing and recording experiences. The group has collaborated with innovative composers such as John King , Evan Ziporyn, Joe Jackson, Steve Coleman, Mel Graves, and Benny Wallace. This season's recordings include Showtime's original series, The Hoop Life, and the Oscar Moore animated film , The Indescriba ble Nth. Ethel soon will be heard on new releases from Joe Jackson and from Rickie Lee Jones.

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Artistic Director Evan Ziporyn, along with Balinese artists Nyoman Catra and Desak Made Sua1ti Laksmi , founded Gamelan Galak Tika (Old Javanese for "intense togetherness") in Cambridge , MA in September 1993. A part of the MIT Music and Theatre Arts program , its membership is comprised of both students and members of the community. Since its inception, the group has devoted itself both to studying traditional Balinese music and dance and to developing new works by Balinese and American composers. It has given dozens of performances around the East Coast and New England, at venues ranging from the Bang on a Can Marathon at Lincoln Center to Boston's First Night to an appearance at the Kripalu Yoga Institute .

Hassan Hakmoun began performing publicly in the Djemma el-Fna Square of Marrakech , Morocco during his very early childhood. By the age of seven he had begun to play the sintir, a three-stringed long-necked African lute producing low bass tones. Peter Gabriel, who "discovered " Hakmoun , released his first international album, Trance , on his Real World label in 1992. With his help, Hakmoun has fashioned an eclectic performing and recording career that includes jazz, world music , contemporary Western art music , and cerebral pop in collaborations with the late Don Cherry and Pharoah Sanders, The Kronos Quartet, and others. He also has co llaborated with Gabriel and with Paula Cole . Hakmoun was last seen at BAM during the World Music and International Children's Festival in 1996. He is working on his newest project , a CD with the working title Marrakech 2000.

Huutajat (Mieskuoro Huutajat literally translated "Me n's Choir of the Shouters ") was formed thirteen years ago in the No1thern City of Oulu, Finland. In 1987, a group of young Finnish men came up with an idea of a choir not singing a note but screaming , shouting , bellowing , roaring , and crying the most beloved songs in the Finnish song heritage. Today the choir is established on the international art and music scene. Huutajat has toured throughout Europe, performing in diverse venues such as concert halls , jazz clubs, art galleries , museum s, railway stations , construction sites, supermarkets , and private homes , as well as at chorus and rock festivals. The ensemb le's repertoire includes text from folklore, children's ditties , worker's songs , national anthems, and quotes from Finnish laws and international treaties. Once the text is selected, the group ' s conductor and com poser , Petri Sirvio, dismantles and reassembles it into a completely new form with complex rhythmic structure and ambiguous interpretation of the text. The Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon will be Huutajat 's first U.S. appearance .

Composer Scott Johnson is a pioneering voice in the new relationship being forged between the "classical" tradition and the popular culture that surrounds it. Since the early 1980s, he has played an influential role in the trend towards incorporating rock-derived instrumentation into traditionally-scored compositions and has often used taped, samples, and MIDI-controlled electronic elements within instrumental ensembles. The St. Paul Orchestra and The Kronos Quartet as well as the Boston Ballet , the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and the Ballets De Monte Carlo have used his music in performances . The Scott Johnson Ensemble has performed in New York City concert venues such as Lincoln Center 's Alice Tully Hall, the Knitting Factory , and The Kitchen.

With Jim Jannusch and Luc Sante, Phil Kline founded the rock band the Del-Byzanteens . Since 1988 he has been a member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble. In 1990 he began creating a body of work using large numbers of portable cassette machines to create phase patterns and sound masses , often in non-traditional performing spaces such as Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage. His outdoor Christmas piece Unsilent Nightfor JOO boom boxes has been performed in the streets of Greenwich Village every year since 1992.

Acclaimed for their exquisite blend and intonation, the men of Lionheart have established themselves as leading expo nents in the field of a cappella singing. Featuring Gregorian chant as the keystone of its repertoire , Lionheart brings its varied repertoire - which includes medieval , Renaissance , and contemporary works - to life with unique artistic expression. Critics across America, from the Los Angeles Times to The New York Times , have hailed this ensemble as "mes merizing ," "sublime," and "truly spiritual. " Since its foun ding six years ago , Lionhea1t has performed at major venues across the U.S., including Lincoln Center , the Kennedy Center, Carneg ie Hall, and the Folger Library in Washington, DC .

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San FranciscoBay area, the United States,Europe, and Japan includinga performancewith Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center, the Interlink Festival in Japan, and Pina Bausch's 25th Anniversary Festival in Wuppertal, Germany , among others. She is a member of the electro-acoustic ensemble, sensorChip , (along with Miya Masaoka and Donald Swearingen) and the interdisciplinary performance ensemble The Cube Chix.

Related BAMcafe Live programming

To complement the BAM Next Wave Festival presentations of David Dorfman 's To Lie Tenderly and the Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon , BAMcafe presents accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek , who has co llaborated with both companies, as he partners with Phillip Johnston to perform musical scores from silent films. This engagement marks Klucevsek's return to BAM following Polka From the Fringe , a collection of 32 post-modern two -steps, at the 1988 Next Wave Festival and Chinoiserie, with Ping Chong and Company , which was featured in the 1995 Next Wave Festival. For information and updates, call 718.636.4139. (For press reservations and photos, please contact Tamara McCaw at 718.636.4122, x 2 or tmccaw @bam.org.)

On Stage/On Film

BAM cinematek, BAM Rose Cinemas' repertory program , presents the world premiere of Frank Scheffer's contemporary music documentary , Let's Meet in the Ocean, on December 7 as pa1i of On Stage/On Film, the ongoi ng series of movies that complement BAM main stage productions. Directed and produced by Frank Scheffer with co-producers George Weiss and Robin Brin ster, Let's Meet in the Ocean is unique in the genre of music documentary. With the cooperation of musicians who have never appeared before in the same film (Steve Reich , Brian Eno, ), it endeavors to explain the complex contemporary music picture of the past thi1iy years, as well as showing how ideas move back and fo1ih between continents. Scheffer explores the relationship between American and European composers and how they view and influence each other. This is embod ied in the film by the story of Bang on a Can. Showtimes are 4:30, 6:50 , and 9:30pm; the 6:50 screening will be followed by a Q&A with Frank Scheffer. Advance tickets , priced at $9 or $5 for students (with valid l.D. Monday-Friday, except holidays), seniors, BAM Cinema Club members and children under 12, are available one week prior to screening at the cinema box office or by calling 718.623 .2770 . (For BAMcinematek press information , contact Nicki Lilavois at 718.636.4129 x3 .)

Cred its

BA M's 2000 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Philip Morris Companies lnc . Programming in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House is supported and endowed by The Howard Gilman Fo undation . BAM's new media partner is Luce nt Technologies . Official Broadcast Sponsor is Bloomberg Radi o AM 1130. BAM 's presentation of Bang on a Can is supported by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. and Tricana Imports. The Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the A1is, with generous suppo1i from The Rockefeller Foundation , The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation The American Scandinavian Foundation , The Finlandia Foundation , The Trust for Mutual Understanding , and The Sam uels Foundation . Additio nal support comes from the Herb Alpert Foundation and the Greenwall Foundation. BAMcafe Live is sponsored by Con Edison. Additional support is provided by The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and The Gree nwall Foundation. The BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a leadership gift in honor of .Jonathan F.P. and Diana Calthorpe Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to acknowledge the generous suppoti of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation , Richard B. Fisher and Jeanne Donovan Fisher , Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council , New York City Department of Cultural Affairs , New York State Council on the Arts, Bloomberg Radio AM 1130, Coca -Cola Enterp rise of ew York, and Bowne of New York.

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General information

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafe , and Shakespeare & Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn . BAM Harvey Theater (formerly the Majestic Theater) is located at 651 Fulton Street in Foti Greene , Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. Award-winning Tentation Catering provides food and beverages at BAMcafe, which features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on Thursday , Friday , and Saturday nights. A package including dinner in BAMcafe and a movie ticket to BAM Rose Cinema s is available for only $30 (at the box office only).

Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, D, Q to Atlantic Avenue B, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street , C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush A venue BAMbus : Departs from Whitney Museum at Philip Morris , 120 Park Avenue at 42 nd Street , one hour prior to most performances . Car : Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM .

For ticket and BAMbus information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100, or visit www.bam.org. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100 .

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A men's shouting choir from Finland, a London "tabla-tronics" master, re-mixed cellular phone conversations, and classic Lou Reed songs among eight hours of music at Bang on a Can's famous annual marathon

WHAT is the Bang on a Can Millennium Marat/ton? The Bang on a Can Marathon, a popular annual event, comes to BAM for the first time to close the 2000 Next Wave Festival. The Bang on a Can Millennium Marathon includes eight hours of non­ stop music, featuring more than 100 international musicians performing a stylistic potpourri of music. Throughout the marathon , audiences are welcome to come and go as they please, in order to leisurely sample the diverse line-up.

WHO will perform? More than 100 musicians from around the world will perform . Highlights include • the U.S. debut of the Finnish virtuoso shouting choir Huutajat , • London-based tabla master Talvin Singh, • 21st century chants by a cappella masters Lionheart , • Czech avant-folk songstress Iva Bittova, • Moroccan singer and dancer Hassan Hakmoun , • the culture -clashing sounds of Gamelan Galak Tika, • free j azz pianist Matthew Shipp , • the U.S. debut of England 's post-minimal Steve Martland Band, • and ambient waves of surreptitiously recorded cell phone conversations by London electronic wizard Scanner .

Also, world premieres of works by Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon , David Lang, and Julia Wolfe (commissioned by BAM especially for this occasion) ; a series of premieres performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars , including David Lang ' s new settings of Lou Reed ' s songs "Sunday Morning " and "Heroin "; music by Tan Dun , Elena Kats-Chemin , Steve Mart land, Evan Ziporyn , Pamela Z; and many more of the world ' s most exciting musicians will be featured.

WHEN and WHERE is it? Sunday , December IO from 2- 10pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House , 30 Lafayette Ave. , Brooklyn

To REQUEST ACCESS or MORE INFORMATION: Call Melissa Cusick (718.636.4122 xl) or Amy Hughes (718.636.4129 x2), BAM Communications .

Release date : 12/7/00

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