Vicky Chow & Guests
Armando Bayolo: Memorias Vagabundas
November 3, 2022 – 8 PM ET
Live Stream!
Bang on a Can Presents: LIVE ONLINE
Armando Bayolo: Memorias Vagabundas
November 3, 2022 – 8PM ET
A World Premiere Commission of 11 Pianists
Organized by Vicky Chow (Bang on a Can All-Stars)
On November 3, Bang on a Can brings you a world premiere video suite from All-Star Vicky Chow and Armando Bayolo, exploring Bayolo’s biography, evoking ancestral Spain, parental Cuba, native Puerto Rico and his life in the United States.
Featuring performances by:
Vicky Chow
Geoffrey Burleson
Mikael Darmanie
Erika Dohi
Timothy Hoft
Blair McMillen
Megumi Masaki
Michael Mizrahi
Winston Choi
Vicki Ray
Ju-Ping Song
Thursday, November 3, at 8pm ET
More info, tickets, and livestream
From Bang on a Can All-Star pianist Vicky Chow:
“This special project came about during the pandemic, when artists were struggling to connect and be “together” in the way we know how: by making music. Armando and I asked our friends and colleagues to be a part of this commissioning project. Everyone that is involved is connected to one another; it feels deeply personal for us as performers, that we banded together to move forward from a very strange place of isolation and anxiety for the future.
Thank you Armando, for this piece, and for giving us something beautiful on which we could collaborate – and be together. To all these wonderful musicians, my friends, salut!”
Check out this excerpt from the piece, Vicky Chow playing “Canción Sentimental”
People
Sruly Lazaros & Tim Thomas – live stream coordinators
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