Stephanie Berger
Thanks for coming to Long Play!
What a weekend! Thank you to all of the 2026 Long Play artists, audience, venues, and staff for bringing together over 10,000 people to 12 venues in Brooklyn over 5 days. We are so grateful to everyone involved.
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(photo by Stephanie Berger)
All-Stars in Europe and California in May! Riley, Sakamoto, Wolfe
The Bang on a Can All-Stars have 2 tours in May!
May 6-10 they will present Ryuichi Sakamoto’s, 1996 (arr Ken Thomson) and Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields (with Flemish Radio Choir) in Belgium and Amsterdam.
May 16 and 17 they head to California with a show in LA (Ryuichi Sakamoto 1996) and Berkely (Terry Riley 90th birthday tribute).
Bass Quartet Performance at Jewish Museum, May 7
On Thur, May 7, in the spirit of that joining of forms, Bang on a Can and the Jewish Museum present a diverse suite of works for bass quartet that plumbs the depths of the low register, including Schuller’s own Quartet for Double Basses; Michael Gordon’s Low Quartet – a work for any four “low” instruments; Jacob Druckman’s Tromba Marina, in which the bass imitates the strange sound of a baroque trumpet; and Tom Johnson’s dada-esque masterpiece, Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass, where a lone player tries to fail or not fail at a very difficult performance.
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA July 30-Aug 1 tickets on sale now!
MASS MoCA and Bang on a Can announce the 2026 edition of their multi-day music festival LOUD Weekend, presented on Thursday, July 30 through Saturday, August 1, 2026, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. LOUD Weekend features three days of immersive music experiences set within the context of MASS MoCA’s vast galleries, performing arts stages and outdoor spaces nestled among the Berkshires mountains. LOUD Weekend is the culminating event of the twenty-fourth annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a three-week artist residency for innovative composers and performers selected from an international applicant pool.
