Hamlet
2026-04-25 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-04-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-26 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-30 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-01 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-02 13:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) and 1 more date
Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Word. Sound. Power. 2026
2026-04-25 19:30 - 21:00
Word. Sound. Power. returns with a celebration of women in hip-hop culture, amplifying femme voices across generations and communities. Join BAM for a showcase featuring amazing emcees, spoken-word artists, and a special guest co-host along with MC Baba Israel and the unparalleled DJ Reborn. Let the music move you, and share in the powerful tradition of channeling hip-hop and poetry into an immediate, exhilarating message for the moment.

Sound + Fury Trivia Nights
2026-04-29 19:00 - 21:30
Wednesday night is Trivia Night at Sound + Fury, where you can pit your trivia skills against others and compete for prizes. Craft beer and great food are, of course, all part of the evening’s festivities!

Moby Dick
2026-04-29 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-04-30 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-05-01 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-05-02 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-05-03 15:00 - 16:40
Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.

Mizik Ayiti! Residency Spring Series | Twoubadou Lakay
2026-04-30 18:00 - 21:00
Join Haiti Cultural Exchange on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Twoubadou Lakay.
Twoubadou Lakay is a collective of master musicians rooted in the rich traditions of Haitian music. The ensemble blends the storytelling spirit and dancing guitars of Haitian Twoubadou with deep Haitian rhythms, jazz sensibilities, and improvisational dialogue. Twoubadou Lakay is tradition reimagined through a contemporary lens. Their sound is both intimate and expansive—grounded in lakou culture, yet reaching across the diaspora—creating a musical space where heritage, memory, and innovation meet.
Twoubadou Lakay’s Haiti Cultural Exchange residency will feature core members Bobby Raymond, Markus Schwartz, Gary Josama, Gama Josama, Joe Montour, Camille Hostin and Roland Cameau in revolving formations. Twoubadou Lakay invites audiences into a living, breathing experience of Haitian musical expression—honoring the past while shaping its future.
Twoubadou Lakay’s five-week residency at HCX will feature unique performances weekly.

DAVE - The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour
2026-04-30 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-01 20:00 - 22:00
British rapper Dave is coming to Brooklyn Paramount as part of The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour!

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
2026-05-02 12:00 - 23:30
Five performances in one day at Roulette, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
12:00 pm – David Longstreth
2:00 pm – Michael Brook Cobalt Blue
7:00 pm – David Lang: Mystery Sonatas with Emma Meinrenken
8:00 pm – Julia Wolfe Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir
10:30 pm – Contemporaneous plays Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood and The Sinking of the Titanic
David Longstreth is the founder and songwriter behind Dirty Projectors, a mainstay in the pop and indie rock worlds since the band’s inception in 2002.
Cobalt Blue is an album by the Canadian musician Michael Brook, released in 1992. Brook supported the album with a North American tour, playing some shows with John Cale. The album was reissued in 1999, with an additional disc of live material.
Originally premiered as part of a Carnegie Hall residency, mystery sonatas are inspired by a remarkable set of violin pieces from the 1670s by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Rather than the original fiery sonatas depicting Jesus’ life story, Lang created intimate spiritual works, divided into ‘joy,’ ‘sorrow,’ and ‘glory,’ performed here by virtuoso Emma Meinrenken.
Long interested in labor in America, Julia Wolfe dove deeply into the coal mining country of her childhood for Anthracite Fields. In researching the piece, she went down into coal mines, visited patch towns and the local museums, and interviewed retired miners. Wolfe says, “My aim with Anthracite Fields is to honor the people who persevered and endured in the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal region during a time when the industry fueled the nation, and to reveal a bit about who we are as American workers.”
One of the experimental double-bassist’s best-known early works is Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which uses a recorded loop of a homeless man singing an improvised fragment, with rich string harmonies layered on top. A recording of the piece was made in 1993 with Tom Waits. Here, Contemporaneous brings the piece to life again.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Ballroom
2026-05-02 13:00 - 23:30
Five performances in one day at BRIC Ballroom, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
1:00 pm – Michael Gordon Trance with Ensemble Signal
3:00 pm – Dither and Friends play James Tenney
5:30 pm – Lucy Railton
8:00 pm – Mamtos
10:30 pm –Melaine Dalibert The Vermilion Hours
Gordon says, “Trance began after a dream I had in July 1994 while I was in residence at the Djerassi Foundation just south of San Francisco.” Brad Lubman: Conductor // Paul Coleman: Sound Director // Jessica Schmitz, Amir Farsi: Flute/Pan Pipes // David Crowell, Ed Rosenberg III, Ken Thomson: Saxophones // David Friend, Luke Poeppel, Lisa Moore: Synthesizer // Red Wierenga: Accordion // Taylor Levine: Guitar // Greg Chudzik: Bass Guitar // Doug Perkins: Percussion // Olivia De Prato: Violin // Lauren Radnofsky: Cello // Seneca Black, Tim Leopold, Changhyun Cha, Kevin Fitzgerald: Trumpet // Jen Baker, Lauren Galarraga, Colin Babcock, Julie Dombrowski: Trombone
New York-based electric guitar quartet Dither and Friends performs works by the great James Tenney, who is known for revolutionizing algorithmic composition, plunderphonics, spectral music, and microtonal systems.
Long Play hosts the first live performance in the US of Lucy Railton’s Blue Veil. Blue Veil invites listeners into the realm of precision-tuned states of resonance: states made manifest through Railton’s careful traversal of her cello’s most subtle acoustic characteristics as they harmonically interlock with the mind’s embodied modalities of attention and imagination.
Matmos is Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt. They are respected, innovative auteurs in the world of electronic music and sampling culture making music out of a wildly heterogeneous set of objects and sources, manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms. The result is a model of electronic composition providing the listener with entry points into densely allusive, baroque recordings that have the direct sensory immediacy of pop music.
French pianist and composer Melaine Dalibert has been exploring the field of generative music for nearly two decades, developing “paper algorithms” that never sacrifice poetry and great harmonic subtlety. His “vermilion hour,” a record project initially conceived with David Sylvian (2025), will be presented for the first time in the USA in its instrumental version, combining piano and synthesizer.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Stoop (FREE)
2026-05-02 14:00 - 20:00
Three FREE performances in one day at BRIC Stoop, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2:00 pm – Orlas
4:30 pm – Brooklyn Youth Chorus performing works by Caroline Shaw, Alev Lenz, and Aleksandra Vrebalov
6:30 pm – Saha Gnawa
Orlas, from the Portuguese word for “shores,” is a father-and-son project by Chicri and Vic Delnur, where Brazilian classics meet a modern, groove-driven edge. Blending samba-jazz, bossa nova, disco-funk, and beyond, their sound feels both timeless and fresh. For Long Play, Orlas presents a special set featuring brand-new songs from their upcoming LP, performed live for the first time alongside highlights from their debut album. Joined by Sarah Maciel, Laura Pereira, Felipe dos Santos, and Thiago Dom, the band delivers a warm, immersive live experience that reimagines Brazil’s musical heritage through a contemporary lens.
Our borough’s finest youth chorus, making singing accessible to all children, performs works by renowned choral composer Caroline Shaw, Turkish-German singer-songwriter Alev Lenz, and Serbian musician and visual artist Aleksandra Vrebalov. Vrebalov’s In Atlantis is a world premiere for chorus and string quartet commissioned specifically for Long Play.
Saha Gnawa brings North African futurism to the U.S., uniting the founders of Innov Gnawa with leading figures from New York City’s jazz and contemporary music scenes to reimagine modern Gnawa music.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at TFANA
2026-05-02 14:00 - 22:00
Three performances in one night at Theatre for a New Audience, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2 pm – Amina Claudine Myers
4 pm – Matthew Shipp The Cosmic Piano
6:30 pm – David Murray, Dezron Douglas, Nasheet Waits
8:30 pm – Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 1 performed by Quatuor Bozzini

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Brooklyn Music School
2026-05-02 19:30 - 23:00
Two performances in one night at Brooklyn Music School, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
7:30 pm – Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause
9:30 pm – Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi – VORTEX
The duo of Tristan Kasten-Krause and Sarah Hennies works collaboratively to compose large-scale compositions employing drones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and extended techniques on double bass and an array of gongs, bells, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments. Their work includes delicate interplay of high-pitched tones, deep resonances, and patient, slowly unfolding extended durations that evoke a mysterious sonic landscape.
VORTEX features Shoko Nagai (piano, accordion, analog synthesizers, electronics) and Satoshi Takeishi (playing a unique “hybrid set” consisting of both western and eastern traditional percussion instruments). Their blend of acoustic instruments and electronic processing create a vivid sonic world.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

AAPI Month: Intergenerational Hula Class
2026-05-03 11:00 - 12:00
Discover how movement connects us to our environment, our stories, and one another. This intergenerational class—designed for children (8+) through adults of all ages and abilities—brings together the flowing, imaginative spirit of Island Flow with the grounding, heart‑centered practice of Hula Noho (Seated Hula).

Inspired by Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Island cultures, participants explore a blend of standing and seated movement, martial‑arts‑influenced techniques, and the expressive foundations of hula and mele. Whether moving on your feet or seated, we honor the balance of respect and responsibility that guides island life, learning what it means to care for ourselves and our community.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Brooklyn Music School
2026-05-03 12:30 - 21:30
Four performances in one day at Brooklyn Music School, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
12:30 pm – Music of Éliane Radigue with Quatuor Bozzini
3:00 pm – There’s a Yearnin’: Wildebeest Wind Quintet with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose
5:30 pm – Julius Hemphill Music for Six Saxophones led by Marty Ehrlich
7:30 pm – Ross and Stomu Takeishi For Living Lovers
The encounter between QB and Radigue points to the challenging nature of auditory availability in Radigue’s music. Yet, as one may experience while listening to this set, such acute awareness transfers to all listeners of Radigue’s music: Radigue’s sound holds the potential to shake expectations regarding performance, listening, and music making. This performance is supported by the Québec Government Office in New York.
There’s a Yearnin’ shines a light on notated compositions for winds by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Oliver Nelson. This performance will mark the world premiere of a woodwind sextet by Dolphy which was found in the Library of Congress archives. The set also features Ornette Coleman’s Forms and Sounds quintets and saxophonist/clarinetist Lederer’s arrangements of compositions by Oliver Nelson with original lyrics by vocalist Mary LaRose. Also included is the premiere of Lederer’s own new work Cruxifiction (not a word).” The Wildebeest Wind Quintet is: Michel Gentile, flute // Katie Scheele, oboe // Mike McGuiness, clarinet // Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon // Nathan Koci, horn
Marty Ehrlich is the chief researcher of the Julius Hemphill Archive at New York University, and performed with Hemphill over a twenty-year period, as a member of the Julius Hemphill Big Band and the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet. He continued the work of the Sextet for a decade after Hemphill’s death in 1995, keeping these seminal compositions before the public.
For Living Lovers is the duo of acoustic guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi. Founded in 2002, the duo has been critically acclaimed for its unique sonic language and musical direction, consistently finding their way onto annual critics’ “best of” lists. Ross and the duo are Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grantees (Immortal Obsolescence 2017). Their newest release, Natural Name is out on Sunnyside Records, 2025.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Ballroom
2026-05-03 13:00 - 19:30
Three performances in one day at BRIC Ballroom, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
1:00 pm – Anzû Quartet and Friends play Ken Thomson
3:30 pm – Exceptet performs Vangelis L’Apocalypse des animaux
6:00 pm – Florent Ghys and Mantra Percussion with opener Owen Weaver
“Each project from the composer and multi-reed player Ken Thomson has been good news,” wrote The New York Times about the Bang on a Call All-Stars clarinetist and composer’s newest co-led project, the Anzû Quartet. Anzû Quartet, a collaboration of musicians from Bang on a Can, Eighth Blackbird, Mivos Quartet and Bearthoven, play the New York premiere Ken Thomson’s “Uneasy” (released on Cantaloupe Music 2025), then add to their forces to play Thomson’s 2018 clarinet quintet “Pall.” Plus the US premiere of “Keep Your Head Down” (2026) for bass clarinet and piano.
Exceptet performs Vangelis’s pioneering score to the first episode of Frédéric Rossif’s 1973 docuseries, L’Apocalypse des animaux, live-to-film, arranged by clarinetist Chuck Furlong. Vangelis’s music accompanying this documentary has become a cult classic, but to our knowledge, this Rossif series has never been screened in the US—certainly not with a live chamber ensemble! Featuring material that doesn’t exist anywhere else, this performance brings to life both a classic film and its score.
Zemblanity and Other Serendipities sonifies visual accidents, whether fortuitous or deliberately staged. Written for small percussion instruments, electronics, and video, the piece is a series of uninterrupted short movements, with video starting in bucolic downtown St. Louis and finishing among the playful trees of Oregon. The piece weaves ordinary moments into rhythmic and harmonic material, transforming incidental gestures into musical structures that shift between inevitability and unexpected discovery. Owen Weaver opens with Same Face!.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Stoop (FREE)
2026-05-03 14:00 - 18:00
Two FREE performances in one day at BRIC Stoop, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2:00pm – Kalia Vandever
4:30pm – Miles Okazaki plays Thelonious Monk
Kalia Vandever is a trombonist and composer whose approach to the trombone is distinctive and defined by their sonorous tone and lyrical improvisational voice. They lean into the challenges of the instrument and allow patience and melody to guide their process.
Miles Okazaki is a NYC-based guitarist whose approach to the guitar is described by the New York Times as “utterly contemporary, free from the expectations of what it means to play a guitar in a group setting — not just in jazz, but any kind.” His six-album recording of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk for solo guitar is an unprecedented project that Nate Chinen called “the six-string equivalent of a free solo climb up El Capitan.”

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BAM Fisher
2026-05-03 14:00 - 20:00
Bang on a Can celebrates legendary composer Steve Reich with this Birthday marathon at BAM’s Fisher. Hear Dither+ perform Electric Counterpoint and Sō Percussion+ perform Sextet, Four Organs, and Piano Phase, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2 & 6 pm – Dither+ perform Electric Counterpoint
3 & 7 pm – Sō Percussion+ perform Sextet, Four Organs, and Piano Phase

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
2026-05-03 14:30 - 23:30
Four performances in one day at Roulette, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2:30 pm – Morton Feldman Three Voices with Charlotte Mundy
5:00 pm – Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre
7:30 pm – Philip Glass Glassworks with Bang on a Can All-Stars
10:00 pm – Secret Chiefs 3
For Feldman’s 100th birthday, Charlotte Mundy performs Three Voices, which was written as an homage to three of his friends: Philip Guston, Frank O’Hara, and Joan La Barbara. The live singer’s voice intertwines with pre-recordings of the other two parts, mostly without text, but with the occasional blowing in of O’Hara’s “Wind.”
Long Play presents Seances by Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre. Two previous albums had been released by Trio-Convulsant (Mary Halvorsen, Ches Smith, and Trevor Dunn). In this third installment Trevor adds a string and winds quartet with cellist Tomeka Reid, the violin/viola of Carla Kihlstedt, flutist Anna Webber and Oscar Noriega on bass clarinet and clarinet.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere a brand-new arrangement of Glassworks, via Glass’ longtime collaborator Michael Riesman. In 1982 Philip Glass became the first composer since Aaron Copland to join the CBS Masterworks label. His first album for the label, Glassworks, tripled all sales projections, pleasing audiences, critics and Glass himself.
Secret Chiefs 3 is an American experimental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance, performing a wide range of musical styles, mostly instrumental, including surf rock, Persian, neo-Pythagorean, Indian, death metal, film music, and electronic music. Spruance has expressed interest in, and drawn inspiration from, various mystical or occult systems such as Sufism, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and alchemy.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.
