How can you not love a music group so cheerfully unstuffy that it calls itself Great Noise Ensemble? Composer/conductor Armando Bayolo put the band together a few years ago from young musicians gathered via Craigslist, and since then has been waging a crusade to “fight for the performance of new American music” in the D.C. area.

And to judge by Sunday’s well-attended performance at the National Gallery of Art, the fight is going pretty well.

–Stephen Brookes, The Washington Post

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