From NYTimes.com:
Bang on a Can Festival (Friday and Saturday) 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. But surely this year’s biggest draw will be the closing concert, a six-hour program marathon. The program features several works by Steve Reich — including his “2×5,” “Eight Lines” and “Cello Counterpoint” — as well as classic modern scores like George Crumb’s “Ancient Voices of Children” and Lou Harrison’s Violin Concerto. There will also be recent works by Hans Abrahamsen, Dan Becker, Jeffrey Brooks, David Crowell, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Missy Mazzoli, Pauline Oliveros, Giacinto Scelsi and Julia Wolfe. Saturday at 4 p.m., Hunter Center, 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, Mass., (413) 662-2111, bangonacan.org; $24, $15 for students. Recitals are free with gallery admission. (Kozinn)
Phil Kline (Friday through Thursday) Riffing on “Indeterminacy,” John Cage’s 1959 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 next Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Hearst Plaza. At noon, Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, lcoutofdoors.org; free. (Steve Smith)
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