Bang on a Can and New Music with Will Robin
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Sheep's Clothing: A Precursor to Bangana Can
Bangana Can wanted to make classical music more of a social situation. They didn't have program notes instead they had composers introduce things from the stage. There's alcohol at the concerts and you can come and go as you want so that's a 12 hour concert but they don't expect you to be in your seat. The kind of programming of those controversial works it also means like give you something to talk about withBecker: "They were really carefully trying to cultivate a social scene"
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