Si è appena conclusa a Brooklyn, NY la seconda edizione del festival Long Play inaugurato l'anno scorso dagli attivissimi Bang On A Can e concepito come occasione di incontro di un'intera comunità di residenti (e non) con le più varie espressioni di musiche e discipline artistiche contemporanee. Sessanta concerti concentrati in un solo weekend presso una decina di sedi diverse, con autori, artisti e interpreti di grandissimo rilievo: Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Klang, JACK Quartet, naturalmente Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ligeti Quartet, Sō Percussion, poi Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Matmos, Patti Smith, e ovunque le musiche di George Lewis, Éliane Radigue, Henry Threadgill, Julius Eastman, di Glass, Reich, Riley e Sakamoto. Qualcosa è già su YT.
"We don’t know about you - scrivono gli ideatori del festival Michael Gordon, David Lang e Julia Wolfe - but personally, ourselves, we need to listen to a lot more music. Right now. We need music’s healing powers, stat. And just as much as the music, we need the community of people around the music - the performers, the composers, the people who come together to hear it all, the people who take the tickets and sell the beer and sweep up after. We need the whole thing, all of us, the whole universe of music lovers who share the same belief - that music has the power to make us whole. Because it does. Lucky for us, this year’s Long Play festival is overflowing with all different kinds of music and musicians - music that is loud and soft, music that is driving and meditative, music that is for winding up and for winding down. Music that challenges where we have come from and that charts where we are headed."