I don't know how many musicians/composers are regular readers, but the good folks at Bang on a Can asked if I'd put up the following call for applicants to this summer's Music Festival. Having made the trek to North Adams myself the past four summers, I'm happy to oblige.
The Bang on a Can Summer Music
Festival at MASS MoCA seeks
applicants to this residency
for composers and performers of
contemporary music at one of the
foremost US
contemporary art museums. Faculty includes Bang on a Can founders Michael Gordon,
David
Lang, and Julia Wolfe, the Bang on a Can All-Stars plus special guests.
More
information is available at: www.bangonacan.org/summer_
Festival dates: July 14-Aug 2, 2009
Application
Deadline: January 15, 2009
Festival location: MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, U.S.A)
Contact: Bang on a Can, 80 Hanson Pl., #701 Brooklyn, NY 11217, 718-852-7755, info "at" bangonacan "dot" org