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BANG ON A CAN MARATHON AND ALL-STARS CONCERT featuring Iva Bittová and Don Byron
FREE All-Day Marathon: Sat, Feb 9, noon - 6 pm, Forum
Culminating Bang on a Can All-Stars Concert: Sat, Feb 9, 8 pm, Theater
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“Imagine Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage—a free-wheeling parade of the strange, the raucous and the beautiful that has become a popular annual tradition.” —Vanity Fair
Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe created Bang on a Can in 1987 to unite musical communities. Their concept? Why not bring groundbreaking artists from different musical communities together for more-than-imagined mind-bending jams? At a Bang on a Can Marathon, featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, anything can happen. Past marathons have featured jazz punk, Siberian throat singing and a piece scored for a hundred tubas. Artistically inclusive and audience friendly, Bang on a Can has delighted New York City for twenty years. YBCA is thrilled to bring the excitement to San Francisco.
The all-day marathon, FREE to the public, kicks off in the Forum at noon. Join us for an adventurous and unexpected confluence of trailblazer composers and players from the Bay Area’s eclectic alternative music scene, including the avant-garde heavy music ensemble Edmund Welles: the Bass Clarinet Quartet, a sneak preview of DJ Cheb I Sabbah’s new CD Devotion, plus more genrebending artists to be announced. The culminating evening concert features the entire roster of Bang on a Can All-Stars along with headliners Iva Bittová and Don Byron, and will feature music by Annie Gosfield, Thurston Moore, Julia Wolfe and more.
Marathon Performance Schedule:
12–2 pm
Bang On a Can All-Stars, Lisa Moore, Njuton, Carla Kildstedt & Necessary Monsters
2–4 pm
Bang On a Can All-Stars, Pamela Z, Ernesto Diaz Infante, Edmund Welles: The Bass Clarinet Quintet
4–5:30 pm
Bang On a Can All-Stars, Cheb I Sabbah & Friends
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YBCA Performance 07-08 is made possible in part by:
The Columbia Foundation
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Additional Funding for YBCA Performance 07-08:
The California Arts Council, The Fleishhacker Foundation, Multi-Arts Production Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts: National Dance Project, Performing Arts Japan, a project of the Japan Foundation, WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, Whole Foods Market, Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The presentation of Bang On a Can All-Stars is sponsored by:
