Cantaloupe Music is the record label created and launched in March 2001 by the three founders of New York’s legendary Bang on a Can organization – composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe – with Bang on a Can managing director Kenny Savelson. The label has made a massive impact in the new music community, and has been recognized by critics and fans worldwide for its edgy and adventurous sounds.
Our goal is to provide a home for contemporary classical and post-classical music that is, in the words of Michael Gordon, “too funky for the academy.” Cantaloupe’s ever-growing catalog of nearly 150 titles features recordings by the Bang on a Can All-Stars (Bang on a Can’s flagship ensemble), So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Kronos Quartet and many more. The label is home to the lion’s share of recorded music written by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe, and has also released key recordings of recent works by John Luther Adams (including the Grammy-winning Become Ocean), as well as Meredith Monk, Glenn Kotche, Martin Bresnick, Derek Bermel, Donnacha Dennehy, Kate Moore, Caleb Burhans, Florent Ghys, Michael Harrison, and an even wider range of emerging young composers.
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