Prom 44 - 17.08.17: Bang on a Can All-Stars

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

22:15 Thursday 17 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Michael Gordon: Big Space BBC commission: world première
David Lang: Sunray London première
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary London première
Philip Glass: Glassworks – Closing
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union

BBC Proms Youth Ensemble
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Rumon Gamba conductor

Bang on a Can represents all that is most gleefully non-conformist and boundary-breaking in new music. Celebrating its 30th birthday this year, this pioneering American artistic collective and its three composer-directors, Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, bring their signature energy to this Late Night Prom, together with their six-piece amplified ensemble.

The All-Stars perform classic works by Wolfe, Lang and Louis Andriessen alongside an 80th-birthday tribute to Philip Glass and a world premiere by Michael Gordon, performed by the Proms Youth Ensemble. Expect propulsive rhythms and plenty of big grooves.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

1. What are big grooves?

2. Is it Louis Andriessen, or the BBC website, who omits the apostrophe?

[Richard Barrett]

1. What are big grooves?

This may help to explain such jargon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8UXY6tehLM

2. Is it Louis Andriessen, or the BBC website, who omits the apostrophe?

I believe it was Andriessen, who does have a better excuse than the BBC, given that Dutch has a topsy-turvy approach to apostrophes (the plural of "piano" is "piano's" for example).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This may help to explain such jargon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8UXY6tehLM

I believe it was Andriessen, who does have a better excuse than the BBC, given that Dutch has a topsy-turvy approach to apostrophes (the plural of "piano" is "piano's" for example).

Thank you for that.