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 Maryland College Park Wind Ensemble
interviews
May 20, 2014
By Justin Davidson
works
true pearl (2018) 30'
words by Sybil Kempson
SSAATTBB + ob.cl[bcl].2perc.pno.vla.vc.db
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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
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
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
works
vent (arr. flute and strings) (1990, rev. 2024) 7'
flute and strings
Andrew Sterman
works
sweet air (1999) 8'
fl,cl,pf,vn,vc
Sentieri Selvaggi
works
street (1994) 8'
fl, 3 sop sx, hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, pno, e bs (amplified)
Orkest de Volharding
recordings
