Thirty years ago, New York composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe launched Bang on a Can as a solution to the dilemma of waiting decades for their work to be performed by other ensembles. Bang on a Can have since performed in concert halls and museums all over the world, and for their Kansas City debut and in collaboration with KC Chorale, the sextet will perform Wolfe’s powerful Anthracite Fields, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music, along with two shorter works by Gordon and Lang.