September / October 2003 BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival Roy Kortick, ear arch with fountain, 2003 BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival ENCORE is sponsored by: Altria 2003 ~ext Wave EesfulaJ'---_ Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Prod ucer presents The New Yorkers Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time: Oct 22, 24 & 25, 2003 at 7:30pm 2 hours with one intermission Staged by Barry Edelstein Lighti ng design by Jane Cox Projection design by Jan Hartley Associate projection design by Michael Clark Sound design by Andrew Cotton Video by Doug Aitken Pictu re stories by Ben Katchor Fi Ims by Bill Morrison Visuals by Laurie Olinder Text by Lou Reed Video by William Wegman Performers Bang on a Can All-Stars Ethel Michael Gordon Band Thea Bleckmann Production stage manager Lisa Porter Sound engineers Andrew Cotton, Jody Elff Produced by Kenny Savelson, Bang on a Can BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. The opening night reception is supported by The Brooklyn Brewery. The evening's events: David Lang Cheating, Lying, Stealing performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars video by Jan Hartley Michael Gordon City Walk with film City Walk by Bill Morrison performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars "The Current Occupant" by Ben Katchor Julia Wolfe Early that summer performed by Ethel David Lang Heroin with video by Doug Aitken original words and music by Lou Reed performed by Theo Bleckmann, vocal Wendy Sutter, cello "Between Movements" by Ben Katchor Julia Wolfe Believing with visuals by Laurie Olinder performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars -intermission- "A Museum of Immanent Art" by Ben Katchor David Lang Wed with video Treat Bottle by William Wegman performed by Ethel "The Crumb Trap" by Ben Katchor Julia Wolfe Big, Beautiful, Dark, and Scary performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars video by Michael Clark "The Decorative 1m pu Ise" by Ben Katchor Michael Gordon Idle performed by Michael Gordon Band video by Jan Hartley ErogffiJIJ'---- _ Michael Gordon Light is Calling with film Light is Calling by Bill Morrison performed by Michael Gordon Band Michael Gordon Tinge performed by Michael Gordon Band video by Jan Hartley with Michael Clark Bang on a Can All-Stars John Benthal electric gu ita r Robert Black bass David Cossin percussion Lisa Moore piano/keyboards Wendy Sutter cello Evan Ziporyn clarinets/saxophones Ethel Ralph Farris viola Dorothy Lawson cello Todd Reynolds violin Mary Rowell violin Michael Gordon Band Christian Bongers bass Carla Capretto keyboard (Fri) David Cossin percussion R. Luke DuBois laptop Michael Gordon keyboa rd (Wed & Sat) Pete Min electric guitar Todd Reynolds violin Cheating, Lying, Stealing was commissioned by Bang on a Can with funds from the Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Consortium Commissioning Program. City Walk (music and film) is excerpted from the Ridge Theater staging of The Carbon Copy Building, commissioned by the Settembre Musica Festival, promoted by the city council of Turin, Italy, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Early that summer was commissioned by Meet the Composer for the Lark Quartet. Heroin was commissioned by the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; from Songs for Lou Reed, commissioned by Bang on a Can with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Heroin video was commissioned with support from June and Daniel Lang. Believing was commissioned by NPS Dutch Radio for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Wed was com­ missioned by the American Conservatory Theater for the Kronos Quartet. Big, Beautiful, Dark, and Scary was commissioned for the Bang on a Can All-Stars as part of the national series of works sponsored by Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA, which is made possible by the generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Catherine Filene Shouse Foundation, and the Target Foundation. All works are published by Red Poppy (ASCAP) except Heroin, written by Lou Reed, with additional music contributed by David Lang; published by Oakfield Avenue Music, Ltd. c/o Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc. (BMI). Thanks for coming tonight and we hope you people and opinions-how other ideas push enjoy the.... the what? What is it? Not even we yours, and how your ideas push back. The know what to call it. We began with the idea to New Yorkers is an evening of collaborations. make an evening that would reflect how we felt Some of our collaborators are old friends, some about New York. Through our music we are people we have just met. Some of the embrace the grime and noise and beauty and works are friendly, some are prickly, some are spirituality that surround us. What makes it so warm and immediately inviting, some less so. inspiring to be here is the energy and vitality of The evening reflects the way all the opinions the city. You bump up against it. You collide are mixed up. That reminds us of New York. with it, in the subways, in the diners, in the art galleries, and concert halls. You are challenged -Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe and stretched and provoked. New York is about Who's WbL.......3llllllo _ Michael Gordon's (composer) compositions choreography of The Royal Ballet, Eliot Feld, demonstrate a deep exploration into the possi­ Emio Greco/PC, among others. His CDs bilities and nature of rhythm and what happens include Light is Calling (Nonesuch), Decasia when rhythms are piled on top of each other, (Cantaloupe), Weather (Nonesuch) and Lost creating a glorious confusion. John Adams, Objects (Teldec) .-by Deborah Artman who has conducted Gordon's works with the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern, calls David Lang's (composer) work caused Los these raw and complicated sounds "irrational Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed to write, rhythms." Gordon's special interest in adding "There is no name yet for this kind of music," dimensions to the concert experience has led to but audiences around the globe are hearing frequent collaborations with artists in other more and more of it-in performances by such media. For example, in Decasia, a multimedia organizations as the Santa Fe Opera, the orchestra piece with films by Bill Morrison New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco and spectacle by Ridge Theater, the audience Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the stands in the middle of a three-tiered, triangular Kronos Quartet; at BAM, Tanglewood, the BBC structure surrounded by an orchestra and large Proms, the Munich Biennale, the Settembre projection scrims. Decasia was commissioned Musica Festival, the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts by the Basel Sinfonietta and premiered at Festival; and the Almeida, Holland, Berlin, and European Music Month 2001. Gordon's most Strasbourg Festivals; in theater productions in significant recent project is a new CD for New York, San Francisco, and London; in the Nonesuch, Light is Calling. The music here is choreography of Twyla Tharp, La La La Human sonic and sensual with layers of violins, electric Steps, The Nederlands Dans Theater, and the guitars and voice in counterpoint with studio­ Paris Opera Ballet. Lang's music was heard at based electronic creations. Other recent works BAM in The Most Dangerous Room in the include Potassium for the Kronos quartet, House for choreographer Susan Marshall, for Trance for Icebreaker, and Weather, written for which he received a Bessie Award in 1999. the young Hamburg-based string orchestra Lang is composer-in-residence at the American Ensemble Resonanz. Gordon's music has been Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Recent presented at BAM, Li ncol n Center, the Ken nedy projects include monumental musical environ­ Center, Royal Albert Hall, the Bonn Oper, the ments like the dark and meditative amplified Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, and the orchestra piece The Passing Measures; The Holland, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, St. Petersburg, Difficulty of Crossing a Field-an opera for the and Settembre Musica festivals, and in Kronos quartet with libretto by Mac Wellman and direction by Carey Perloff; the critically and Lost Objects, an oratorio with Gordon, acclaimed opera Modern Painters about the Lang, and writer Deborah Artman that will curious and tragic life of art critic John Ruskin, receive its first staged production under the and the evening-length piano solo Psalms direction of Fran~ois Girard at BAM's Next Without Words. He is currently working on Wave Festival 2004. For The Carbon Copy Anatomy Theater, an opera with visual artist Building, she received the 2000 Village Voice Mark Dion, director Bob McGrath, and the OBI E Award for Best New American Work. Ridge Theater, and concertos for percussionist Wolfe received a 2001 OBI E for the music to Evelyn Glennie and pianist Andrew Zolinsky. Jennie Ritchie, a collaboration with playwright The CD recording of The Passing Measures Mac Wellman and Ridge Theater. Her recent (Cantaloupe) was named one of the best CDs recording Julia Wolfe-The String Quartets of 2001 by The New Yorker magazine. Other was released on the Cantaloupe label. Her CDs include the introspective chamber work music has also been recorded on Teldec, Child (Cantaloupe) and other works on Sony Universal, Sony Classical, and Argo/Decca. Classical, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, -by Deborah Artman Caprice, CRI, and Cantaloupe labels. Barry Edelstein (stage director) has directed Julia Wolfe's (composer) music is muscular award-winning productions in theaters around and kinetic and experienced through the body. New York and the U.S., including the Public She creates journeys like unfolding dramatic Theater (Julius Caesar, The Merchant of landscapes, a music meant to be entered into Venice, and others), the Roundabout (All My by the listener.