Long Play 2024

Long Play Festival

Friday, May 3 – Sunday, May 5, 2024

A Supercharged Musical Ride through Right Now

50+ concerts throughout Brooklyn, New York

“Long Play has been around only since last year, but it is already the most important classical music festival in New York City.” [NYTimes]

About

Featuring 50+ concerts , Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Public Records, BRIC, Irondale Center for the Arts, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more. A limited number of 3-day Early Bird Festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now!

Bang on a Can’s Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, say of Long Play:

We don’t know about you, but personally, ourselves, we need to listen to a lot more music.  Right now.  People are tense, the world is a mess.  We need music’s healing powers, stat.  And just as much as the music, we need the community of people around the music – the performers, the composers, the people who come together to hear it all, the people who take the tickets and sell the beer and sweep up after.  We need the whole thing, all of us, the whole universe of music lovers who share the same belief – that music has the power to make us whole.  Because it does.

Lucky for us, this year’s LONG PLAY festival is overflowing with all different kinds of music and musicians – music that is loud and soft, music that is driving and meditative, music that is for winding up and for winding down.  Music that challenges where we have come from and that charts where we are headed.  60 plus concerts of all of this great music, in one long weekend, in multiple venues in Brooklyn, all within walking distance of each other.   Come see it all, on LONG PLAY.

DAILY LINE UP (full schedule to be announced soon)

FRIDAY MAY 3

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith Correspondences (US premiere)

Bang on a Can All-Stars play Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1996 (live premiere)

Ana Roxanne

 

SATURDAY MAY 4

Jeff Mills Tomorrow Comes the Harvest

BlankFor.ms, Jason Moran, Marcus Gilmore Refract

Ligeti Quartet • Anna Meredith: Nuc (US Premiere) 

Alex Weiser/Ben Kaplan, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, produced by American Opera Projects

Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince 

Arone Dyer

Claire Chase + JACK Quartet play Terry Riley

Claire Chase

David Lang the little match girl passion, performed by Ekmeles

Darius Jones fLuXkit Sextet (US Premiere) 

Dither performs Laurie Spiegel’s The Expanding Universe

Ekmeles performs George Lewis and Hannah Kendall

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Immanuel Wilkins + Jason Moran

Julia Wolfe Forbidden Love, performed by Sō Percussion

Marc Ribot performs Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid

Matmos

Mivos Quartet performs the Complete String Quartets of Steve Reich

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble plays Alex Paxton (US Premiere) 

Peter Adriaansz’s Environments, performed by Ensemble Klang (US Premiere)

Qasim Naqvi

Queens College Gamelan Yowana Sari (with Dewa Alit and Talujon)

Rebekah Heller plays Steve Reich (world premiere)

Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary Halvorson Duo

 

SUNDAY MAY 5

Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians 

Deerhoof 

Kuniko Kato plays Steve Reich Drumming 

claire rousay

DoYeon Kim Quartet

Du Yun + OK Miss

Eileen Myles, Steve Gunn and Ryan Sawyer Trio

Éliane Radigue and Carol Robinson: OCCAM HEXA V, performed by Ensemble Klang (NY Premiere)

Hu Vibrational 

International Contemporary Ensemble plays Courtney Bryan 

Iwo Jedynecki plays Philip Glass Etudes

The Jazz Passengers

Josh Johnson – Unusual Object (NY Premiere) 

J. Pavone String Ensemble

Kate NV

Laurel Halo

Ligeti Quartet plays Ligeti String Quartets 

Maria Chávez [DJ]

Michael Gordon Rushes

Mivos Quartet plays Ingrid Laubrock, George Lewis, and Henry Threadgill

NOMON

Rafiq Bhatia with Chris Pattishall

Raw Poetic and Damu the Fudgemunk

Robert Black Tribute Concert: John Luther Adams’ Darkness and Scattered Light

Rob Mazurek/Chad Taylor – Chicago Underground Duo

Sam Prekop and John McEntire

The Soft Pink Truth

William Parker The Blinking of the Ear 

Yacouba Sissoko Duo

tickets

Festival Supporter Pass: $350

 

 3-day Festival Pass: $235 / single day pass: $125

(3-day and single day pass sold through the BAM box office.)

A Festival Supporter Pass includes:

  • access to all 3 days of Long Play events, including the marquee concerts at BAM—Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith Correspondences (May 3), Jeff Mills: Tomorrow Comes the Harvest (May 4), and Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends (May 5).
  • an exclusive pre-festival concert featuring a world premiere by legendary composer Terry Riley performed by flutist extraordinaire Claire Chase + JACK Quartet on Thursday, May 2 at Public Records
  • special pre-show hang with Bang on a Can and Steve Reich on Sunday May 5, and other special events to be announced.
  • Supporter Passes also FULLY subsidize the purchase of one LONG PLAY 2024 day-pass for persons unable to afford a full priced ticket.

A 3-day pass (sold through our partners at the BAM box office) gets you access to marquee concerts at BAM—Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith Correspondences, Jeff Mills: Tomorrow Comes the Harvest, and Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends—as well as access to more than 50 other Long Play concerts while supplies last. Please note that all Long Play concerts are subject to venue capacity limits.

Single-day passes are also available for Saturday and Sunday

It’s important to us that cost is not an ultimate barrier to new musical experiences. If you feel you are in need of a discount, please drop us a line at: [email protected].

Artists

Supporters

LONG PLAY is particularly grateful for the generous lead support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, Kettering Family Foundation, ASCAP, Qobuz, The Japan Foundation of New York and Atlantic Records. This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council of the Arts. Pianos supplied by Yamaha.

               

                

 

For information on sponsorship opportunities for the 2024 Long Play Festival, please contact Bang on a Can’s Development Director, Laura Patterson, [email protected]. Sponsors support artist fees, production costs, and promotions for over fifty concerts at eight venues throughout Brooklyn. Bang on a Can is a 501-C3 charitable organization, all donations are tax deductible.  All sponsors will be properly credited for their support.

Donate to Long Play

Bang on a Can’s current programs are made possible with generous lead support from: Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, ASCAP and ASCAP Foundation, Atlantic Records, Daniel Baldini, Stephen A. Block, Bishop Fund, City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Valerie Dillon and Daniel Lewis, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jaffe Family Foundation, Kettering Family Foundation, Alan Kifferstein & Joan Finkelstein, Michael Kushner, Leslie Lassiter, Herb Leventer, Raulee Marcus, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Jeremy Mindich & Amy Smith, Elizabeth Murrell & Gary Haney, National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts (with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature), Justus & Elizabeth Schlichting, Scopia Capital Management, Matthew Sirovich & Meredith Elson, Maria & Robert A. Skirnick, Jane & Dick Stewart, Sandra Tait and Hal Foster, David Tochen & Mary Beth Schiffman, The Family of Cece Wasserman, Williamson Foundation for Music, Adam Wolfensohn & Jennifer Small, and Wolfensohn Family Foundation.

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