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‘the loser’ premieres at Brooklyn Academy of Music
the loser September 7-11, 2016. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Gilman Opera House.
He appears to float in the nothingness. Confined to a tall tower 20 feet above the seats, he is alone, broken, and has a story to tell.
In this daringly staged one-act opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang—featuring mezzanine-only seating and based on the novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard—a failed piano student (baritone Rod Gilfry, Anna Nicole, 2013 Next Wave) recounts a life lived in the shadows of his famous friend Glenn Gould…
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In 1998, I wrote music for a production of Friedrich Schiller’s play Mary Stuart at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. The director was my friend Carey Perloff, the music was sung by the spectacular men’s vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and the translation of the text was by the writer and Village Voice theater critic Michael Feingold. There can be a lot of down time for a composer and a translator during theater rehearsals so Michael and I passed the time telling each other stories about books we should be reading, and Michael suggested I read Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser …
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percussion concerto 1,2,2,2/2111/timp,3perc,pf/str
the Eos Orchestra for Evelyn Glennie
sweet air (arr. chamber orch) (1999, rev. 2005) 8'
arr. small orchestra
fl, cl, perc, pf, 2vn, va, vc, db (small string section or solo strings)
Sentieri Selvaggi
where you go (2015) 8'
Text by David Lang after the Book of Ruth
chamber choir or 12 solo voices - SSS AAA TTT BBB
Tanglewood Music Center in honor of its 75th anniversary.
while nailing at random (1983) 10'
piano solo
‘Bang on a Can’ Showcases Inventive Classical Music
For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more eclectic scores at the ‘Bang on a Can’ festival in North Adams, Mass. Jeffrey Brown explores the origins of the event.
David Lang Wins Music Pulitzer
By Tom Huizenga
Listen to excerpts of the interview here
Read more…David Lang, a New York-based composer, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music with his piece, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Lang’s music makes a big impact with small forces. The piece is scored for only four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers…
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