In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy organization dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. These days, Lang is an eminence: Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the Yale faculty, and composer in residence at Carnegie Hall for 2013-14. Justin Davidson talked with him midway through “collected stories,” a six-concert festival he curated at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and days before the release of his recordinglove/fail…
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University of Memphis
event
Ann Arbor, MI
works
the woodmans: music from the film (2011) 35'
Scott Willis, director
David Lang, composer
C. Scott Films
event
Saturday, April 7, 2018
‘the so-called laws of nature’ performed by the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
works
The Carbon Copy Building (1999) 72'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Text by Ben Katchor
Cast: Ms, T, Bar, Bar/Ct; cl(bcl, cbcl, ssx)/perc/syn/egtr [all instruments and voices amplified]
Settembre Musica Festival and the city council of Turin, Italy, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
event
Sunday, April 5, 2020
‘the little match girl passion’ performed by University of Northern Iowa Concert Chorale
University of Northern Iowa Concert Chorale
University of Northern Iowa
interviews
David Lang Wants to Be More Superficial
May 20, 2014
By Justin Davidson
works
the village detective (2021) 55'
accordion, voice
Bill Morrison as the score to his film The Village Detective: a song cycle
works
how to pray – for orchestra (2002) 10'
3,2,2+bcl,3/4331/timp,3perc,pf/str
the American Composers Orchestra
works
darker (2010) 60'
12 solo strings
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles
works
true pearl (2018) 30'
words by Sybil Kempson
SSAATTBB + ob.cl[bcl].2perc.pno.vla.vc.db
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum