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[email protected] BANG ON A CAN at MIT Boston-area premieres of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars & Trio Mediaeval Michael Gordon’s Timber performed by Mantra Percussion Part of Bang on a Can’s 25th Anniversary Season Saturday, November 12 at 7:30pm Kresge Auditorium | MIT | 48 Mass. Ave. | Cambridge Tickets: Gen. Adm. $20; Students $10; MIT Faculty and staff $10; MIT Students Free. Available at http://trio-bang-mantra.eventbrite.com Bang on a Can: www.bangonacan.org | Trio Mediaeval: www.triomediaeval.no Mantra Percussion: www.mantrapercussion.org | MIT Visiting Artists: http://arts.mit.edu/va Watch Steel Hammer online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PATlsnLgJM Watch Timber online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cubmnH6MQ Cambridge, MA (October 11, 2011) — The “relentlessly inventive” (New York Magazine) new music collective Bang on a Can will embark on the second year of its three-year residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with the Boston-area premieres of two works by Bang on a Can co-founders Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon on Saturday, November 12 at 7:30pm at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium (48 Mass. Ave., Cambridge). Two world-class ensembles join forces on Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer featuring renowned electric chamber ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the luminous Norwegian vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval. Michael Gordon’s Timber, recently released on Cantaloupe Music to great acclaim, will be performed by the incisive Mantra Percussion.