Classical Music Listings from the New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

Bang on a Can Festival (Friday through July 28) This inventive composers collective and new-music band has established a summer festival, popularly called Banglewood, at MASS MoCa, where the organization’s composer founders, along with members of its house band, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, teach and perform. There are daily recitals — unannounced ones at 1:30 anywhere on campus, and at 4:30 in the museum’s galleries — as well as more formal concerts like the All-Stars’s multimedia “Field Recordings” program, on Saturday, featuring commissioned works by Tyondai Braxton, Mira Calix, Florent Ghys, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Christian Marclay, Todd Reynolds, Julia Wolfe and Nick Zammuto. At 8 p.m., Hunter Center, 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, Mass., (413) 662-2111, massmoca.org; $24, $15 for students. The recitals are free with gallery admission. (Kozinn)

Jack Quartet (Thursday) Even for a string quartet that embraces risk as eagerly as this one does, this performance is — different. Appearing as part of “You Are Here,” a biennial festival programmed by the composer Sam Hillmer and the artist Laura Paris, the Jack Quartet performs John Cage’s “Four” somewhere within a life-size maze at around 11 p.m. Fellow maze dwellers include the violinist C. Spencer Yeh, the guitarist and composer Patrick Higgins and the cellist Tianna Kennedy. At 8 p.m., Secret Project Robot, 389 Melrose Street, between Knickerbocker and Irving Avenues, Bushwick, Brooklyn, jackquartet.com, secretprojectrobot.org; $10. (Smith)

Meredith Monk (Monday) An iconoclastic composer, vocalist and choreographer, Meredith Monk was a standout in the San Francisco Symphony’s astonishing realization of John Cage’s “Song Books” at Carnegie Hall in March. Sharing a program here with Kay Larson, the author of “Where the Heart Beats,” a highly regarded new study of Cage’s relationship to Buddhism, Ms. Monk will perform selections from “Song Books” and talk about her own encounters with Buddhism and Cage. At 7 p.m., Rubin Museum, 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, (212) 620-5000, rmanyc.org; $20. (Smith)

Phil Kline (Wednesday) Riffing on “Indeterminacy,” John Cage’s compendium of one-minute stories, the composer Phil Kline updates the notion for Cage’s centenary with “dreamcitynine.” Sixty brief koans, recorded by the likes of Jim Jarmusch, Bill T. Jones and Philip Glass, will be hidden around the Lincoln Center campus; your job is to find them with your smartphone and a downloaded app. The installation runs through Aug. 12; a live interpretation by 60 percussionists is scheduled for Aug. 3. At noon, Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center, lcoutofdoors.org; free. (Smith)