Jacob Druckman’s Horizons an article for an unpublished Druckman memorial edition of Contemporary Music Review, (2000), Harold Meltzer, editor. What we are celebrating with this festival is all the new music. So wrote Jacob Druckman in the program booklet for Horizons ’84, The New Romanticism – A Broader View, the second festival of three that Druckman curated for the New York Philharmonic in 1983, 1984 and 1986. The statement is not totally true – the Horizons Festivals were never supposed to be about all the new music …continue reading

works

child (2001) 42'

my very empty mouth, sweet air, short fall, stick figure, and little eye

fl(pic),cl(bcl),perc,vn,va,vc,pf

Program Note Recordings score preview More Info

works

sweet air (1999) 8'

fl,cl,pf,vn,vc

Sentieri Selvaggi

Program Note Recordings order music More Info

news

David Lang Profile in New York Times

DAVID LANG first heard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” at the San Francisco Opera in 1974, as an undergraduate student and aspiring composer. This was the first opera ticket — standing room — that he had paid for with his own money, and he arrived well prepared, with a copy of the score and a flashlight to study it by.

“It was a really big deal for me,” Mr. Lang, now 55, said recently, sitting on a sofa in his light-flooded SoHo loft while two parakeets called noisily for attention from another room…