Bang on a Can All-Stars – review

Tramway, GlasgowTwenty-five years ago, fed up with the stylistic warfare between New York's avant-garde factions, composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon founded a music collective called Bang on a Can. It started with marathon "play-ins" and an annual festival in Massachusetts. The aim was to find intersections between jazz, classical, rock and other idioms, and collaborators ranged from John Cage to Sonic Youth.The All-Stars are Bang's six-piece touring band, led by clarinettist E...

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