#3586: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2014

From the New Sounds Live Concert Series, listen to portions of the Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert 2014 – a partnership with the Ecstatic Music Festival, recorded live at Merkin Hall this past March.  Hear Bang on a Can co-founders Julia Wolfe's “Lick” and David Lang's Schubert-inspired “Death Speaks” with guest vocalist Shara Worden. There’s also music by one of the three PCF-commissioned composers, the Brooklyn-based electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl.  

Wolfe’s work, “Lick” was the first work she wrote for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. It’s an impatient piece, full of attack fragments; saucy, yet still sensual.  Then, hear Daniel Wohl’s commission, “Holographic,” recreating the optical illusion of a hologram through sound.  It’s a work for both the acoustic and electric, with field recordings and slightly distorted versions of the live instruments performed by the All-Stars.  Then, the closing work of the night was Bang on a Can co-founder David Lang’s darkly post-Schubertian ‘death speaks,’ an intimate, emotional work featuring Shara Worden’s dramatic and delicate vocals in a conversation with the character, Death.

PROGRAM #3586 Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert 2014
(First aired on 4/2/2014)