Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Brooklyn Music School
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.