Clips include Andy Akiho (Steel Pan), Andy Kozar (trumpet and electronics), Andi Hemmenway (viola), Marlina Rauschenfels (flute), and selections from Gregg August’s (Bass) 4:30 recital.
PLUS: Check out this great article by Judith Fairweather in The Advocate about her first trip to MASS MoCA and her experiences with the Bang on a Can festival.
I will be posting a short highlight video from the Bang on a Can gallery recitals everyday. If you like what you see, consider joining us for these performances everyday (except Sundays) in the galleries at 1:30 and 4:30 through July 26, or go visit the MASS MoCA YouTube page for more information about the performances and higher quality videos of the 4:30 performances from each day.
Speaking of YouTube, I noticed this morning that we are ranked as the #40 most viewed non profit YouTube page of the day, and #53 of the week! We are going to be adding new video everyday while Bang on a Can is here, so keep visiting and help us move up the list.
If this was today, imagine what tomorrow will be like. (7/14/08)
Clips include Sean Conway (film, Scribble II), Bill Soloman (wood blocks), Rachael Hands (french horn), and Todd Reynolds (violin), Andrew Russo (piano), and Evan Ziporyn (clarinet) performing Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat.
If this was today, imagine what tomorrow will be like. (7/15/08)
Clips include student directed chamber orchestra and Throw Back, Undo, and kleine helmet composed by Ken Thomson.
Hey! Eric Nottke, Production Manager for the Performing Arts here.
Do you live in North Adams or in the area near MASS MoCA? Want to know what’s going on in the Performing Arts at MASS MoCA? Well, I’ll tell you, every other Thursday on WNAW 1230AM(North Adams radio station) at 8:30 AM.
One of our awesome interns worked with Vaughn Bell to create this quiz to help you determine if you are ready to adopt your own pocket biosphere or not. After you take the quiz, share your results by uploading them to your own website. Don’t forget to challenge your friends to take the quiz as well. If you like this one let us know and we will keep them coming!
Also check out this great interview Vaughn did over on Shuffleboil’s blog.
MASS MoCA director Joe Thompson offers this account of weekend festivities for the members of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival and the artists working on the LeWitt installation:
Our annual Bang on a Can picnic conjoined this year with the LeWitt crew…and the prediction of rain, alas…so we moved it to the Elks Lodge in North Adams, which is quite a venue. The decorative highlight are four mounted elk heads, each sporting 18 or 20 points on the antlers, to say nothing of the light bulbs. Under each head is one of the attributes of the ideal Elk Club member: Charity, Brotherly Love, Justice (and a bonus to whomever can remember the fourth). These are written out in blue neon, below each head. Yale University Art Gallery’s Jock Reynolds joked that he wished he had a set of those above his desk, on hidden switches. When a donor is in the room, click Charity. Some staff complaining about another colleague…time to light up Brotherly Love.
There’s nothing like being outside in the Berkshires on a nice night, but we gamed through the rain call. The LeWitters beat the BoaCan-ers to the Karaoke box, with a surreal rendition of Your Cheatin’ Heart accompanied by a squawking sax. But David Lang and Evan Ziporyn redeemed BoaC with some Bowie…Suffragette City, I think it was, in a sort of late-punk/Berlin cabaret rendition. It’s a good thing Pulitzer Prizes can’t be rescinded, or Lang’s might have been put in jeopardy by that.
