Chorus/Vocal

in wildness (2026) 30'

SATB with string quartet

Danish National Girls’ Choir (DR Pigekoret), Arts & Lectures at University of California Santa Barbara, Carnegie Hall, La Jolla Music Society, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Stanford Live, and Washington Performing Arts Society

before and after nature (2025) 60'

SATB + amplified sextet

before and after nature was commissioned by Bang on a Can; Stanford Live; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Helsinki Festival and Helsinki Chamber Choir; University of Illinois-Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; with generous support from Robert and Maria A. Skirnick, Stephen Block, Leslie Lassiter, Raulee Marcus, Susan and George Reardon, Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, and Abby Sher.

poor hymnal (2023) 60'

words and music by David Lang

SATB

co-commissioned by The Crossing and Donald Nally (with support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Jill and Loren Bough, and Peggy and Mark Curchack) and the Nederlands Kamerkoor.

Program Note Video Recordings libretto More Info

I saw a poor man

open your hands (after deuteronomy 15)

our hearts tell us (after psalm 27 and mahatma gandhi)

all who are hungry (after the passover haggadah)

the least of us (after leviticus 19 and matthew 25)

I know I should (after h. a. walter)

if you close your ear (after proverbs 21:13)

prayer for kindness

what is mine (after elizabeth warren, barack obama, and saint basil)

take nothing with you (after luke 9:3)

what remains (after the sayings of the fathers and matthew 6)

things that never fail (after 1 corinthians 13)

I saw a poor man - choral return

wherever charity is (after tolstoy, after ubi caritas)

vilne alef-beys (2023) 10'

SATB

Vilnius Festivals for the 700th Anniversary of the city of Vilnius

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let me come in (arr. SSA) (2023) 10'

text by David Lang (after Song of Songs 5:2)

3 voices (SSA), percussion, viola, cello

Vox Clamantis

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love fail (the selected choruses) (2023) 28'

women's chorus

Paul Hillier

northern light (2023) 3'

SATB

for Pro Coro Canada

the national anthems (arr. string orchestra) (2023) 24'

Text by David Lang

SATB + string orchestra

LA Master Chorale, the Berlin Radio Choir, and Yale Choral Artists

Program Note Libretto Recordings rent music More Info

our land our peace

our hearts are glowing

the national anthems: fame and glory

our common fate

two campion songs (2022) 7'

soprano or alto voice with piano

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song of songs (2022) 60'

a collection of vocal works

alleluia amen (2022) 6'

sun-centered (2022) 25'

when this all ends (2022) 4'

flower, forget me (2022) 14'

we were (2021) 10'

text by David Lang (after Song of Songs)

the sense of senses (2021) 8'

text by David Lang (after Song of Songs)

let me come in (arr. piano and voice) (2021) 10'

(arr. piano and voice)
text by David Lang (after Song of Songs 5:2)

let me come in (2021) 10'

text by David Lang (after Song of Songs 5:2)

in nature (2020) 20'

protect yourself from infection (2020) 6'

teach your children (2019) 25'

stateless (2019) 6'

text by David Lang, after a letter by Rabbi Moses ben Nachman

if i am silent (2019) 8'

the writings (2019) 55'

true pearl (2018) 30'

words by Sybil Kempson

she is called (2018) 5'

text by David Lang

if I sing (after psalm 101) (2017) 4'

Text by David Lang

a girl (2017) 4'

text in Yiddish, by an anonymous author

sleeper’s prayer (2016) 7'

solitary (2016) 8'

text by David Lang (after the Book of Lamentations)

make peace (2016) 3'

sleeper’s prayer – arr. chamber choir and organ (2016, rev. 2019) 8'

the public domain (2016) 30'

a house (2016) 18'

text by David Lang

memorial ground (2016) 30'

simple song #3 – arr. chamber ensemble (2015) 6'

simple song #3 – arr. piano/vocal (2015) 6'

simple song #3 – arr. piano trio (2015) 6'

last spring (2015) 5'

words and music by david lang (after aasmund olavsson vinje)

when I am alone (2015) 30'

Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'

music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo

where you go (2015) 8'

Text by David Lang after the Book of Ruth

manifesto (2015) 4'

Text by David Lang

simple song #3 (2015) 6'

just (after song of songs) – arr. string quartet (2014, rev. 2018) 13'

just (after song of songs) (2014) 13'

crowd out (2014) 40'

the national anthems (2014) 24'

Text by David Lang

when we were children (2013) 9'

Text by David Lang

head heart (2012) 4'

death speaks (2012) 26'

Text by David Lang

ark luggage (2012) 9'

Text by Peter Greenaway

love fail (2012) 60'

Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)

ark luggage – arr. pno/soprano (2012) 9'

Text by Peter Greenaway

love fail – arr. female chorus (2012, rev. 2016) 60'

Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)

the same train (same train) (2012) 3'

where the bee sucks (2012) 3'

i live in pain (2011) 4'

Text by David Lang (after Beatriz de Dia)

i never (2010) 9'

Text by David Lang (after Thomas Tallis)

oh graveyard (2010) 3'

Text by David Lang (after the spiritual "Lay This Body Down")

statement to the court (2010) 10'

Text by Eugene Debs

after Stephen Foster (2009) 20'

battle hymns (2009) 50'

Text by David Lang (after Sullivan Ballou, Stephen Foster and Abraham Lincoln)

the little match girl passion – for chorus (2008) 35'

Text by David Lang (after H.C. Andersen, H.P. Paulli, Picander and Saint Matthew)

for love is strong (2008) 11'

Text by David Lang (after The Song of Songs)

the little match girl passion (2007) 35'

Text by David Lang (after H.C. Andersen, H.P. Paulli, Picander and Saint Matthew)

evening morning day (2007) 6'

Text by David Lang (after Genesis)

again (after ecclesiastes) (2005) 5'

Text by David Lang (after Ecclesiastes)

I want to live (2005) 4'

text by David Lang

i lie (2001) 5'

Text (Yiddish) by Joseph Rolnick

this condition (2000) 5'

Text by Lydia Davis

pay me now (2000) 2'

by fire (1984) 5'

Text by Sun Tzu, Robert Scheer

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