Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2026
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Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend features three days of immersive music experiences set within the context of MASS MoCA’s vast galleries, performing arts stages, and outdoor spaces. LOUD Weekend is the culminating event of the twenty-fourth annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a three-week artist residency for innovative composers and performers selected from an international roster of artists.
LOUD Weekend 2026 includes the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks, in its entirety, a new live arrangement of Terry Riley’s inspirational A Rainbow in Curved Air, the ever-inventive and virtuosic guitarist Yasmin Williams, Conrad Tao performing Frederic Rzewski and more, Eliza Bagg and Mantra Percussion premiere Annie Gosfield’s one-act chamber opera Emma — exploring the radical vision, ideals, and enduring legacy of Emma Goldman, one of the most legendary and influential social activists in U.S. history, Morton Feldman’s mind-altering, meditative Piano and String Quartet, and so much more.
LOUD Weekend 2026 includes the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks, in its entirety, a new live arrangement of Terry Riley’s inspirational A Rainbow in Curved Air, the ever-inventive and virtuosic guitarist Yasmin Williams, Conrad Tao performing Frederic Rzewski and more, Eliza Bagg and Mantra Percussion premiere Annie Gosfield’s one-act chamber opera Emma — exploring the radical vision, ideals, and enduring legacy of Emma Goldman, one of the most legendary and influential social activists in U.S. history, Morton Feldman’s mind-altering, meditative Piano and String Quartet, and so much more.
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1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01247
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