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Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. From left: David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe in 1987, when they founded the contemporary-music organization Bang on a Can amid a long decline in public arts funding.Credit...Robert Lewis By William Robin Feb. 18, 2021 “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” the composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1996. Bang on a Can, the contemporary music organization they had founded a decade before, had recent...

How a scrappy arts group survived the '90s Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. by William Robin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1996. Bang on a Can, the contemporary music organization they had founded a decade before, had recently lost about a fifth of its budget because of massive cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts. But Gordon, Lang and Wolfe were undeterred. “It’s a Ban...

Joshua Kosman February 16, 2021Updated: February 16, 2021, 7:46 pm Bang on a Can founding artistic directors David Lang (left), Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Photo: Peter Serling Something possibly worth noting about the influential New York new-music behemoth Bang on a Can is that the name is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. There aren’t any cans, and there’s only a reasonable amount of banging. Yet the name, which evolved out of a throwaway joke in an early grant application, does get at a distinctive aspect of this organization. Since its inception in 1987, Bang and its f...

WQXR Announces 2021 STAR (Salutes The ARts) Initiative STAR (Salutes The ARts) is a multi-pronged effort to support New York City's cultural landscape.by BWW News Desk As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep New York City's performance stages dark, WQXR, New York City's classical music station, has announced STAR (Salutes The ARts), a multi-pronged effort to support New York City's cultural landscape. STAR kicks off with four projects aimed at helping individual artists and organizations: grants for NYC-area musical talent, complimentary radio airtime for New York cultural nonprofits, a w...