Bang on a Can All-Stars
Bang on a Can All-Stars

Terry Riley 90th Birthday Celebration

Bang on a Can All-Stars
Fri 17 Apr 2026 20:30 - 22:15
Fri 17 Apr 2026
20:30 - 22:15
  • Fri 17 Apr 2026
    20:30 - 22:15
    Interval 20:55
    Grote Zaal

Program

Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air (arr. Gyan Riley)
Terry Riley In C

Credits

Bang on a Can All-Stars:
Lizzie Burns bass
David Cossin percussion
David Friend piano
Arlen Hlusko cello
Taylor Levine guitar
Ken Thomson clarinet

Andrew Cotton sound engineer

Two classics

There are musical works that you simply must hear live in your lifetime, and tonight, we have not one, but two such classics on the programme. Terry Riley is a minimal music icon whose idiosyncratic blend of improvisation, electronica and drone music has had a massive influence on the music of our time. Riley recently turned ninety, and we are celebrating this with his ground-breaking masterpieces, In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air. The New York-based Bang on a Can All-Stars are the dream performers for this occasion. 

In 1964, Terry Riley jotted down some fifty mini-fragments on a single A4 sheet of paper: this was the score for the pioneering In C. Because of the interpretive freedom given to the musicians, no two renditions of the piece are exactly alike. Five years later, Riley struck gold again with A Rainbow in Curved Air: an album of improvisations and tape loops drawing from jazz and Indian music, which would go on to influence generations of ambient, fusion and electronic musicians. Tonight’s arrangement comes courtesy of Riley’s son, Gyan.

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