“SECOND SUNDAYS” PROGRAM FOR JULY 2010: MUSIC IN THE GARDEN PERFORMANCE BY TALUJON PERCUSSION QUARTET
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July 2010 brings the second innovative performance in the Music in the Garden series co-presented by Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum. The July program features the Talujon Percussion Quartet, a four-member drum ensemble that performs classic and new music using both traditional and non-traditional instruments. Highlights of this performance include work by John Cage, as well as Dominic Donato’s Reuse, Recycle, Reduce (2009). Music in the Garden is held in the Museum’s internationally celebrated sculpture garden.
Founded in 1991, the New York City-based Talujon Percussion Quartet is devoted to expanding contemporary percussion repertoire and to bringing that repertory to its diverse international audience. Talujon members are David Cossin, Dominic Donato, Tom Kolor, Michael Lipsey, and Matt Ward.
Talujon regularly performs at a diversity of venues in New York, including the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Carnegie Hall, and Symphony Space, as well as at universities and concert halls throughout the U.S. and at festivals ranging from the Taipei Lantern Festival, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, California’s Festival of New American Music, and the Bang on a Can Marathon, as well as at the Percussive Art Society’s International Convention, among many other sites. In the past year, Talujon toured Europe with Steve Reich and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
With its unparalleled musical sensibility, Bang on a Can is one of the world’s best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music.
Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music.
Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can, composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, along with the group’s managing director, Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe’s goal is to further the mission of Bang on a Can, and to provide a home for “music that slips between the cracks.”
