# Conversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu

Members of loadbang join violinist/composer Christopher Otto, pianist Ning Yu, have a discussion with David Plylar about their concert at the Library. Loadbang, a quartet for bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone and baritone voice, performed works by Sebastian Currier, Hilda Paredes, Michael Finnissy, and Laura Cetilia. The works by Currier and Finnissy were commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, and the Finnissy work features texts by Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle that are held in the Library’s Manuscript Division. At the center of the program was a new work by Christopher Otto, commissioned by the Leonora Jackson McKim Fund in the Library of Congress and performed by Otto and pianist Ning Yu.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 37 min
- By: Yu, Ning
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10776/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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