The Bang on a Can Marathon, With Steroidal Energy
From Roars to Rhythmic Mallets, a Day for Savoring Exploration The Bang on a Can Marathon, With Steroidal Energy
All in all, it’s an irresistible show, whatever the quality of the music. And with Sunday’s consistently excellent performances, it was possible to judge that music on its own terms. So Percussion lavished its talents on Bryce Dessner’s intensely pretty, utterly inert “Music for Wood and Strings.” The ensemble Contemporaneous attacked, with passion, the syrupy, listless lyricism of selections from Jherek Bischoff’s “Cistern.”
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