Bang on a Can All-Stars, Anthracite fields

With 30 years of active presence in the international music scene, Bang on a Can All-Stars appear in the Stavros Niarchos Hall and take the audience on a journey back to the beginning of the industrial revolution, through a captivating award-wining audiovisual experience.

Bang on a Can All-Stars is dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found. With adventurous programs, it commissions new composers, performs, presents, and records new work, develops new audiences, and educates the musicians of the future. Bang on a Can All-Stars is building a world in which powerful new musical ideas flow freely across all genres and borders.

Anthracite fields is a piece created by Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe, co-founder of Bang on a Can All-Stars. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, speeches, geographic descriptions, children’s rhymes, and coal advertisements the creator composed a work that gives an intimate look at coal-miners’ life around the turn of the 20th century. By combining instruments and voices as well as sound and imagery she creates a composition of musical historic poetry with folk and classical elements.

Contributors
Ashley Bathgate: Cello
Robert Black: Bass
Vicky Chow: Piano
David Cossin: Percussion
Mark Stewart: Guitars
Ken Thomson: Clarinets

Fons Musicalis Choir
Choir master: Kostis Konstantaras