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 All-Stars 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 (, The Merchant of landscapes, a music meant to be entered into Venice, and others), the Roundabout (All My by the listener. Wolfe's work is distinguished by Sons), the Williamstown Theater Festival (As th is intense focus on sou nd-the power of You Like It starring ) and others. sound, the ways in which sound is related to From 1998-2003 he was artistic director of memory and experience, the possibilities for , where he produced new harmonies between familiar chords, and seventeen productions and directed six microtonal tunings or sounds found in nature including (with Uma and the urban world. With a care and attention Thurman in her stage debut) and Steve to detail that is both masterful and highly Martin's adaptation of The Underpants. He respectful, Wolfe's music celebrates the extra­ teaches at The Juilliard School and NYU and ordinary qualities contained within something has written on theater for The New York Times, as specific as a gesture or an inflection. Wolfe's The New Republic, American Theater, and The music is heard around the world in performances Washington Post. For H. at the Next Wave Festival at BAM, the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, Settembre Musica (Italy), Jane Cox (lighting designer) has designed the Holland Festival, Theatre de la Ville (Paris), lighting in New York at BAM, the Public the San Francisco Symphony, and more. Theatre, Signature, Vineyard, and Classic Stage Upcoming works include a string quartet Company among others; in regional theaters concerto for Kronos quartet and Orchestra, a including the Guthrie, Long Wharf, The new work for the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Alliance, McCarter; and in Europe at the a new work for music with film for the Asko National Theatre, London, Project Theatre, Ensemble, and an accord ian concerto Dublin, Hebbel Theatre Berlin. Cox is resident commissioned by the Miller Theater. Recent designer for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference collaborations include the provocative theater and the recipient of a 2001-2003 NENTCG piece, House Arrest, with playwright and career development grant. performing artist Anna Deavere Smith; The Carbon Copy Building with comic book artist Jan Hartley (projection designer) has been a Ben Katchor, the Ridge Theater Company and projections artist since 1983. She has worked composers Michael Gordon and David Lang; with Ping Chong, Simon McBurney, Francesca Zambello, Tina Landau, Jerry Zaks, Jack O'Brien, and performers; and cross-disciplinary collabo­ , Christopher Ashley, Michael Mayer, rations such as Bang ona Can's comic-book Rob Marshall, and Barry Edelstein. opera The Carbon Copy Building featuring original drawings by cartoonist Ben Katchor, Michael Clark (associate projection designer) ShadowBang featuring the Bang on a Can creates film and video media for live events. All-Stars with Balinese shadow puppet master Recent projects include Judy Speaks at I Wayan Wija, and projects with DJs, visual Ars Nova, McBeth for the Fringe Festival, artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and more. Broadway Bares at Roseland Ballroom, A View Our innovative and aggressive approach to from the Bridge at Portland Opera and The programming and presentation has created a Last Five Years for the Philadelphia Theater large and vibrant international audience made Company. up of people of all ages who are rediscovering the value of contemporary music. Andrew Cotton (sou nd designer) has worked with a range of artists and has specialized in Performing &Visual Artists jazz and contemporary music. He combines Bang on a Can All-Stars: John Benthal, guitar; production skills and an intimate knowledge of Robert Black, bass; David Cossin, percussion; music and technical processes. Past projects Lisa Moore, piano/keyboards; Wendy Sutter, have included artists as diverse as George cello; Evan Ziporyn, clarinets/saxophones. Russell, Elvis Costello, and Steve Martland. Labeled "The country's most important vehicle for contemporary music at the turn of the Bang on a Can is a New York-based organiza­ millennium" (San Francisco Chronicle), Bang tion dedicated to creating a forum for the most on a Can All-Stars have come to be known innovative and adventurous music of our time. worldwide for their ultra-dynamic live perfor­ We aim to discover emerging composers and mances and recordings of music by today's ensembles who are exploring new musical most groundbreaking composers. Freely territories, reaching for a musical expression crossing the boundaries between classical, beyond the status quo. Our bold programming jazz, rock, world, and experimental music, this concept incorporates perform ing visiona ry six-member amplified ensemble from New York classics written two to three decades ago and plays music from uncharted territories, defying pieces by com posers just born at that ti me­ categories, and has shattered the definition of exciting music by our best known living what concert music is today. Recent and composers and by those only starting to gain upcoming projects and collaborations include recognition. Composers and Co-Artistic their landmark recording of Brian Eno's ambient Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and classic Music for Airports and live performances Julia Wolfe founded Bang on a Can in 1987. with Terry Riley, , Meredith Monk, The original idea was simple: to have fun with Don Byron, and more. With occasional new music. In fifteen years Bang on a Can has homages to Iivi ng masters, the hea rt of the grown from a one-day festival to a multi­ repertoi re is the sou nd of the new generation. faceted organization. Projects include festival The All-Stars appear annually in New York on concerts and the annual Bang on a Can the Great Performers Series at Li ncol n Center Marathon in New York City; The People's and other recent concert appearances include Commissioning Fund, a membership program BBC Proms, Sydney Olympics Festival, Venice to commission emerging composers; a resident Biennale; Holland Festival, Hancher Auditorium, ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, who Iowa, UCLA, Mass MoCA, and more. The tour to major festivals and concert venues All-Stars now record on Cantaloupe Music around the world every year; recording projects; (www.cantaloupemusic.com) and have the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music, released past recordings on Sony, Universal, an educational program for young composers and Nonesuch. Ethel: Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, choreographer Yoshiko Chuma. He is on the cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; Mary Rowell, faculty of the Hartt School at the University of violin. Since 1998, the explosive string quartet Hartford and has recorded for Sony Classical, Ethel has established itself as a pioneering new Koch, Mode, 0.0. Discs, and others. music ensemble. Ethel has conquered New York with a series at The Kitchen and Columbia Theo Bleckmann (vocals) is a genre-bending University's Miller Theater as well as appear­ vocalist/composer who has been described as ances at venues as diverse as Joe's Pub and "a singer who often sounds like he's only the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. recently fallen to earth" (OUT Magazine) and The four founding members all have wide­ as "excellent" by The New York Times. "A local ranging expertise in various musical scenes cult favorite", according to The New Yorker, and idioms; as individual players, they have Bleckmann has performed with Laurie distinguished backgrounds that range from Anderson, Bang on a Can, Anthony Braxton, work with the New York Philharmonic and Steve Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, and others. Bang on a Can to collaborations with artists He continues to move between jazz, improvised from rocker Sheryl Crow to cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In and contemporary music, pop, and performance 2002, Ethel received a DNA grant from Arts art with equal grace and elegance. Bleckmann's International, and the group makes frequent last, highly acclaimed release on Songlines, appearances on international stages. A debut entitled origami, garnered four and a half stars CD from Ethel was released on Oct 15 on (out of five) from Downbeat Magazine. Cantaloupe Music. Christian Bongers (electric bass) has been Doug Aitken's (video) Electric Earth won the living and working in New York City for the Premio Internazionale, best international artist past ten years and is currently recording A. M. award, at Italy's 48th Venice Biennale. His Gold's first LP, take me to your leader, with artwork was also recently featured at the Centre Pete and Carla. He has been working Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Victoria with Paul Wallfisch on the score for Dummy Miro Gallery in London. Additionally, Aitken has (starring Adrien Brody and Milia Jovovich) and directed music videos for Fat Boy Slim, Iggy Page Hamilton (Helmet, Glen Branca, David Pop, Barenaked Ladies, and U-ziq. Bowie). He loves New York and its music scene and has played with countless bands John Benthal (electric guitar) comes to this and songwriters in NYC. He has been working music from a background of various musical with Paul Wallfisch on the score for Dummy styles. Originally a blues and jazz guitarist, he (starring Adrien Brody and Milia Jovovich) and has toured with jazz drummer Chico Hamilton, Page Hamilton (Helmet, Glen Branca, David jazz organist Charles Earland, and more recently Bowie). with R&B singer Regina Belle and saxophonist Warren Hill. He has also worked on several Carla Capretto (keyboards) started playing at Broadway shows, currently The Little Shop of the age of five and is a graduate of Oberlin Horrors. Benthal atso enjoys playing a variety Music School where she majored in piano of stringed/fretted instruments-his favorite performance. Since she has been in New York being the Cuban Tres guitar. City, she has performed with many local bands, both singing and playing piano. She currently Robert Black (bass) is equally at home in plays in the band A.M. Gold. the classical and contemporary repertoire. A recipient of many national grants, he -has David Cossin (percussion) specializes in new commissioned more than 60 solo works. and experimental music, and has recorded and Frequent solo tours have taken him throughout performed internationally with Bang on a Can the world and recent collaborations include All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Talujon actor Kathryn Walker, artist Ige D'Aquino, and Percussion Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Bo Diddley, 'lilJa's Wb~a _ and Tan Dun with whom he was the solo Dorothy Lawson (cello) is the solo cello voice percussionist for the Academy Award-winning for the Brazilian jazz pianist Marcelo Zarvos score for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden & Group. A frequent guest of the New York Dragon. Cossin has played as a soloist with Philharmonic, she has toured extensively with orchestras in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Sweden, Montreal, Brazil, and London and will Project, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the premiere a new percussion concerto by Tan Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Lawson recorded Dun with the L.A. Philharmonic this fall. the premiere North American release of the Borodin Cello Sonata for the Koch label. R. Luke DuBois (laptop) has done interactive programming and music production work for Pete Min (electric guitar) moved to New York many artists, most recently Toni Dove, Chris in 1985 and has played with Debbie Mann, and Michael Gordon, and is a staff Harry, Jewel, and Fernando Saunders as a programming consultant for Engine27. He is a sideman. He currently plays in A. M. Gold and co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed produces local bands in his studio in Brooklyn. by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of Lisa Moore (piano) is a founding member of matrix data. His music with his band, the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Her new solo CD , is available on titled Which Side Are You On (music by Caipirinha/Sire and Cycling'74 music. Frederic Rzewski) was released on Cantaloupe Music in May 2003. She has performed world­ Jody Elff (sound engineer) is an artist and wide as soloist and with the New York City audio engineer living in New York City. He Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln works regularly with Bang On A Can, Laurie Center, BargeMusic, Steve Reich Ensemble, Anderson, Paul Winter, and others. His sound Sydney Symphony, and the Australian Chamber art works-location specific sonic sculptures­ Orchestra among many others. have been presented in various museums, art galleries, and public spaces internationally. Bill Morrison (filmmaker) has five titles in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Ralph Farris (viola) is a Grammy®-nominated Art. His work has been recognized with' arranger, an original member of the New York Bessies (1993, 2003), an Obie (2001), and City company of Disney's The Lion King, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000). Decasia former musical director for The Who's Roger premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival Daltrey. His collaborations include Allen and later became the subject of several feature Ginsberg, Joseph Silverstein, and the Pop articles in The New York Times, prompting sensation Dishwalla. Farris' arrangement of Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman to remark the ' national anthem has been that the film is "that rare thing: a movie with internationally broadcast. avant-garde and universal appeal."

Ben Katchor's (cartoonist) picture-stories­ Laurie Olinder (visual designer) is an Obie and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer; The Bessie Award-winning visual designer for Ridge Jew of New York; The Cardboard Valise; and Theater. Her work can be seen in theater, films, currently, Hotel & Farm-have appeared in and paintings in venues in New York and the the English-language Forward, Metropolis world beyond. Upcoming projects include Magazine, and other newspapers around the projection design for The Death of Klinghoffer county for more than a decade. In 1999, he in BAM's Next Wave Festival in December and wrote the libretto and drew the images for The projection design for Gotham, a new Michael Carbon Copy Building with music by Michael Gordon composition opening at Carnegie Hall's Gordon, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang. His new new Zankel Hall in February 2004. music-theater production The Slug Bearers of Kayrollsland, with music by Mark Mulcahy, will premiere in 2004. Lisa Porter (stage manager) has stage more. Sutter has also toured throughout Europe managed international tours for Mikhail and Asia with Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Baryshnikov, Laurie Anderson, Richard Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and The Foreman, and has an ongoing collaboration Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. From 1993-98 in both theater and film with independent she was a member of the White Oak Chamber filmmaker Hal Hartley. She has worked on Ensemble touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov Broadway, off-Broadway, at various regional and the White Oak Dance Project, and she theaters, and is a visiting lecturer at the Yale presently serves on the faculty at Columbia School of Drama. University.

Todd Reynolds (violin), named "New York's William Wegman (video artist) was born in reigning jazz/classical violinist" by The New Holyoke, MA in 1943. He graduated from the Yorker, is also a composer, producer, conductor, College of Art, in 1965 and exclusive performer of music of our time. A with a BFA in painting and from the University member of Steve Reich and Musicians, Bang of Illinois with an MFA in 1967. Wegman's On A Can, Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road project and a interests in areas beyond painting ultimately founder of Ethel, New York's own avant string led him to photography and the infant medium quartet, he currently produces two projects, of video. While living in , Wegman Still Life with Microphone and Nuove Uova, acquired Man Ray, the dog with whom he and is working on a record of his own music began a fruitful, twelve-year collaboration. and one of commissioned work for violin and Man Ray became a central figure in Wegman's electricity. photography and videos, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan Mary Rowell (violin) is concertmaster of the presence. In 1972, Wegman and Man Ray Radio City Orchestra and the Palm Beach Pops. moved to New York. In 1986, a new dog, Fay She is freq uently featu red as a viol in soloist Ray, came into Wegman's life, and soon there­ with the New York City Ballet. A member of after another famous collaboration began, the Grammy® Award-winning Tango Project, marked by Wegman's use of the Polaroid she has collaborated with Sheryl Crow, Joe 20 x 24 camera. With the birth of Fay's litter Jackson, and Clem Snide. Rowell is a founding in 1989 and her daughter's litter in 1995, member of the alternative rock band the Silos. Wegman's cast grew. His photographs, videos, paintings, and drawings have been exhibited Kenny Savelson (producer) has produced in museums and galleries internationally. A concert events with Bang on a Can since 1997 retrospective of his work traveled to museums including annual presentations at Lincoln throughout Europe and the U.S., including the Center, BAM, Symphony Space and at many Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. other venues and festivals worldwide. Together with Bang on a Can Artistic Directors Michael Evan Ziporyn (clarinet) is a composer/ Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, Savelson clarinetist whose work draws equally from is also a co-founder of Cantaloupe Music, an world and classical music, the avant garde, independent record label formed in 2001. In and jazz. A founding member of the All-Stars, addition to his work with Bang on a Can, he he has recorded and toured with Paul Simon, continues to record and perform as a drummer Steve Reich, Arnold Dreyblatt, Matthew Shipp, in New York and worldwide, primarily with his Wu Man, Ethel, and Tan Dun. In Boston he is six-piece 'pop-noir' band Melomane. artistic director of Gamelan Galak Tika, a ground breaking Balinese music and dance Wendy Sutter's (cello) solo appearances troupe, and Head of Music and Theater Arts at include the Lincoln Center Chamber Music the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His Society, the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln most recent CDs are Shadow Bang and This is Center, the Ensemble Sospeso, the Seattle Not a Clarinet (Cantaloupe). International Chamber Music festival, and Bang OD-a Can _

Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe Managing Director Kenny Savelson Development Director Julia Fishkin Production and Development Associate Philippa Thompson Project Manager Ken Thomson Administrative Assistant Kelly Buwalda Publicist Aleba Gartner Production Assistant Amy Bristol

Up-to-date info regarding The New Yorkers, The People's Commissioning Fund, the Bang on a Can Festival, the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music, the All-Stars tour schedule, and all of our recent and upcoming events and CD Releases is available at our web page: www.bangonacan.org. Or for more information about Bang on a Can, call 212.777.8442 or email us at [email protected]. Also check out Cantaloupe Music, a new record label created by the founders of Bang on a Can, at www.cantaloupemusic.com.

The collaborative composition Lost Objects (coming to the Next Wave Festival in 2004) by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe is a staged oratorio, with libretto by Deborah Artman, written for Concerto Koln, the RIAS Kammerchor, various soloists, an ensemble from Bang on a Can and DJ Spooky, and is released on the Teldec label. The Next Wave Festival production will be staged by director Fran<.;ois Girard.

Bang on a Can's programs are made possible with generous support from: Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Chamber Music America, City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, The Greenwall Foundation, Japan Foundation, Jerome Foundation, LEF Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Meet the Composer/ Commissioning Music USA, JP Morgan Chase, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, NIB Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Virgil Thomson Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Wolfensohn Family Foundation.

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