Steve Martland’s Horses of Instruction Featured at Ecstatic Music Festival

On February 10 the Bang on a Can All Stars perform Steve Martland’s Horses of Instruction at Merkin Hall in New York. This work, which Bang on a Can commissioned from Martland in 1994, is performed alongside three new works composed for the ensemble by Bryce Dessner, Nick Brooke, and Karsh Kale. The concert is a part of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Hall, organized by Judd Greenstein. David Lang, of Bang on a Can, writes of Martland:

Steve is a revolutionary. His music is not about beautiful orchestration or beautiful notes, but about musicians working together with a common difficult task, challenging the musical ideas we have inherited. The struggle to achieve this task mirrors the struggle people live with, particularly in a political sphere.

Steve Martland-Composer Profile.

Additional details on the festival are located at www.kaufman-center.org.

Steve Martland
Horses of Instruction (1994)
sax.tsax.bsax-tp.tbn-pno-mar.drum kit-vn-egtr.ebgtr (with low B string)
17'