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Conservatory of Music in Salerno Italy

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hammerspace (2014, rev. 2023) 3'

a collection of small pieces for cartoons

solo trumpet

Commissioned by Kunststiftung NRW, Philharmonie Essen, HELLERAU ­Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden, and Ensemble Musikfabrik

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NY Times: David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web

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David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web
By WILLIAM ROBIN, August 2, 2013
Opera and technology have long had an uneasy relationship. The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.

Historically, though, opera tended to avoid confronting the technological head-on…

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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Jacob Druckman’s Horizons an article for an unpublished Druckman memorial edition of Contemporary Music Review, (2000), Harold Meltzer, editor.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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