November 9–November 11, 2012
‘the difficulty crossing a field’ staged by Nashville Opera and performed by the Alias Chamber Ensemble
Nashville Opera
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The Mount Holyoke College Chamber Singers
event
works
face so pale (1992) 9'
6 pianos
Piano Circus
works
if I sing (after psalm 101) (2017) 4'
Text by David Lang
chamber choir or 8 solo voices, ssaattbb
Nederlands Kamerkoor
works
string of pearls (2006) 9'
solo marimba
a marimba consortium (Thomas Burritt and the University of Texas Percussion Program, Michael Burritt, David Cossin, Joseph Gramley, Eduardo Leandro, Todd Meehan, William Moersch, Doug Perkins, Steven Schick, Adam Sliwinski, Robert Van Sice)
works
memory pieces (1992) 30'
piano solo
works
cheating, lying, stealing – arr. band (2011) 12'
2+picc, 2, 3+Eb+bcl,3 / 2 alto sax, ten sax, bari sax / 4,3,2+btbn,euphonium, 1 / piano, 4 perc, string bass
Bowling Green State University
works
cello (1997) 5'
piano solo
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An Opera for the City, an Opera for the Self: the mile long opera
October 3, 2018
writing
Jacob Druckman’s Horizons
January 1, 2000
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an article for an unpublished Druckman memorial edition of Contemporary Music Review, (2000), Harold Meltzer, editor.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
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First Person: Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang on the original Jewish love story
October 12, 2023
I wouldn’t say that I am super religious, but I am definitely religion-curious. It is a big part of my family background, and, to be honest, a big part of the history of my chosen field, Western classical music. For the past 1000 years, the church has been the most powerful commissioner of Western music, and its most active employer of musicians.
Because of this, much of our foundational repertoire is explicitly on the subject of how music helps a listener get in the mood for a religious experience…
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