Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Featuring 70+ concerts, Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BRIC, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn Musicc School, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Public Records, the Church of St Luke and St Matthew, ISSUE Project Room, Polonsky Shakespeare Center for Theatre for a New Audience, Fort Greene Park – and more! Get tickets here.

Sunday, May 3 at Brooklyn Music School:

12:30 PM

Music of Éliane Radigue with Quatuor Bozzini

The encounter between QB and Radigue points to the challenging nature of auditory availability in Radigue’s music. Yet, as one may experience while listening to this set, such acute awareness transfers to all listeners of Radigue’s music: Radigue’s sound holds the potential to shake expectations regarding performance, listening, and music making.

3:00 PM

There’s a Yearnin’: Wildebeest Wind Quintet with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose

There’s a Yearnin’ shines a light on notated compositions for winds by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Oliver Nelson. This performance will mark the world premiere of a woodwind sextet by Dolphy which was found in the Library of Congress archives. The set also features Ornette Coleman’s Forms and Sounds quintets and saxophonist/clarinetist Lederer’s arrangements of compositions by Oliver Nelson with original lyrics by vocalist Mary LaRose. Also included is the premiere of Lederer’s own new work Cruxifiction (not a word).”  The Wildebeest Wind Quintet is: Michel Gentile (flute), Katie Scheele (oboe), Mike McGuiness (clarinet), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) and Nathan Koci (horn).

5:30 PM

Julius Hemphill Music for Six Saxophones led by Marty Ehrlich

Marty Ehrlich is the chief researcher of the Julius Hemphill Archive at New York University, and performed with Hemphill over a twenty-year period, as a member of the Julius Hemphill Big Band and the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet. He continued the work of the Sextet for a decade after Hemphill’s death in 1995, keeping these seminal compositions before the public.

7:30 PM

Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi For Living Lovers

For Living Lovers is the duo of acoustic guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi. Founded in 2002, the duo has been critically acclaimed for its unique sonic language and musical direction.