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The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill

i lie (2001) 5'
Text (Yiddish) by Joseph Rolnick
small chorus SAA
Kitka
o isis and osiris (2005) 4'
2 hn, 2 tpt, 3 tbn, timp
Mannheim Opera
stuttered chant (2011) 4'
cello and percussion, in unison
for Maya Beiser and Evelyn Glennie
An Opera for the City, an Opera for the Self: the mile long opera
Bang on a Can All-Stars Premiere Field Recordings
At the Barbican Centre in London, on March 20, 2012, the Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere Field Recordings — with new works by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe. The evening-length project that is as much a mystery as a concert – a kind of ghost story. The ghosts aren’t the physical presence of people gone before, but they are the ghosts of sounds, images, ideas, and voices. Each composer has been asked to find and interact with something recorded before, using the power of music made right in front of us to reach out to other things not present…
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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 …
continue readingPaolo Sorrentino narrates the opening of his film ‘The Great Beauty’ – with music by David Lang
while nailing at random (1983) 10'
piano solo
ever-present (2018) 7'
2 electric guitars + 2 pianos
written for Bryce Dessner