Long Play Festival 2026: David Longstreth // Michael Brook // David Lang // Bang on a Can All Stars // Contemporaneous

Saturday, May 2, 2026. 12:00 pm
Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a multi-day destination music festival

Contemporaneous: Open Mic

Tuesday, March 4, 2025. 7:00 pm
Contemporaneous provides an opportunity for composers at all stages to submit their work to be performed in a free performance.

Contemporaneous: Songs at Night

Tuesday, February 27, 2024. 8:00 pm
An intimate evening focused on a new song cycle by composer Lila Meretzky setting poems by Yiddish-language poet Anna Margolin.

Contemporaneous: The Music of Jali Bakary Konteh and Mafu Conteh (World Premieres)

Tuesday, October 10, 2023. 8:00 pm
a years-in-the-making, cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration between Gambian griots and a New York City chamber orchestra.

Contemporaneous: Swan Songs

Wednesday, March 15, 2023. 8:00 pm
A new evening-length work with music by Ethan Braun and text by Vikram Devasthali, exploring opera's history of endings.

Scott Johnson with Contemporaneous

Thursday, January 23, 2020. 8:00 pm
Pioneering composer Scott Johnson joins acclaimed new music ensemble Contemporaneous to present two works for electric band: the world premiere […]

Contemporaneous IMAGINATION Presents

Wednesday, March 6, 2019. 7:30 pm
In celebration of the diverse ways we express our lives through music, Contemporaneous IMAGINATION presents a genre-defying concert featuring […]

Ned Rothenberg: Beyond C with David Bloom and Contemporaneous

Sunday, February 24, 2019. 8:00 pm
In conversation with Terry Riley's 1964 landmark composition In C, Ned Rothenberg’s Beyond C is a concerto for improvisational woodwind […]

PROTOTYPE Festival: Stranger Love

Wednesday, January 17, 2018. 7:00 pm
Set against the ever-expanding universe, Stranger Love is a story of love that unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons.

PROTOTYPE Festival: Stranger Love

Tuesday, January 16, 2018. 7:00 pm
Set against the ever-expanding universe, Stranger Love is a story of love that unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons.