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From NYTimes.com:

This year’s marathon offered works by 28 composers on Sunday, from noon to just past midnight, at the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan. Like the last several, it was presented as a free concert, part of the River to River Festival. Early in the day listeners came and went, but by 5 p.m. the center’s atrium (which holds 2,000) was packed, and it remained so to the end.

If the marathon is a barometer of anything, it may be that Denmark is the new England, a place where composers are experimenting, and ensembles are eager to help out. The Athelas Sinfonietta, a flexible chamber orchestra, and Ars Nova Copenhagen, a choir, have both lately built relationships with the Bang on a Can founders.