This season, the New York Philharmonic concludes their three-week-long Music of Conscience initiative, as well as their subscription season, with the world premiere of David Lang’s opera prisoner of the state on June 6–8, 2019, conducted by their new Music Director Jaap van Zweden. Co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Rotterdam’s de Doelen Concert Hall, London’s Barbican Centre, Barcelona’s l’Auditori, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, and Bruges’s Concertgebouw, prisoner of the state is the story of a woman who disguises herself as a prison guard to rescue her husband from unjust political imprisonment…
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Univeristy of Windsor Wind Ensmble
modern painters (1995) 110'
Text by Manuella Halterhoff
major roles: Bar, lyric Sop, Ten, Mz Sop, dramatic Ten, character Sop, Bass; and 3 Ten, Sop, 2Bar, Bass, silent girl, chorus; 2(pic)2(ca)2(bcl)2/4220/2perc/pf(syn).hp/str
the Santa Fe Opera
loud love songs (2004) 18'
percussion concerto 1,2,2,2/2111/timp,3perc,pf/str
the Eos Orchestra for Evelyn Glennie
slow movement (1993) 25'
2fl.0.3(asax.ten sax.bar sax).0/0.0.0.0/perc, 2kbd.acn.2egtr.eb/vn.vc; all amplified
Icebreaker
my evil twin (1992) 11'
0.0.3.0/2.0.0.0/hp.eorg.eb.perc/2va.2vc
the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
sweet air (1999) 8'
fl,cl,pf,vn,vc
Sentieri Selvaggi
face so pale (1992) 9'
6 pianos
Piano Circus
head heart (2012) 4'
SSAA
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Wake Forest University / Secrest Artists Series, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa
super chill (2017) 6'
piccolo, bass clarinet, trombone, egtr, piano, glockenspiel, vln, vla, vc, db
Crash Ensemble
prisoner of the state
Elkhanah Pulitzer, director
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David Lang’s prisoner of the state — co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen, Barbican Centre, l’Auditori, Bochumer Symphoniker, Concertgebouw Bruges and Malmö Opera — premiered in June 2019 with the New York Philharmonic, and received its British premiere in January 2020 at the Barbican Centre in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and conductor Ilan Volkov…
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