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Bang on a Can All-Stars
daisy (202406) 30'
string quartet
Venice Biennale, Parabola/Kings Place, and the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale
sweet air (1999) 8'
fl,cl,pf,vn,vc
Sentieri Selvaggi
street (1994) 8'
fl, 3 sop sx, hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, pno, e bs (amplified)
Orkest de Volharding
mountain (2014) 13'
4.4.3+bcl.3+cbn/4.4.4.1/perc/timp/hp/str
Cincinnati Symphony
if I sing (after psalm 101) (2017) 4'
Text by David Lang
chamber choir or 8 solo voices, ssaattbb
Nederlands Kamerkoor
Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler
Lang’s score “gorgeous” in Sorrentino’s film premiered at Cannes 2015.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Youth’
Variety MagazineJay Weissberg
Cannes, France — In “The Great Beauty,” there’s a flashback in which a young Jep Gambardella recalls the promise of love — its loss, with the betrayal of youthful ideals, leads to Jep’s crushing self-contempt. It’s a tender moment in a film of deep cynicism, and now Paolo Sorrentino, with “Youth,” delivers his most tender film to date, an emotionally rich contemplation of life’s wisdom gained, lost and remembered — with cynicism harping from the sidelines, but as a wearied chord rather than a major motif…
continue readingNY Times: David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web
Secrets Found Online, Shared Softly
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…
continue readingFirst Person: Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang on the original Jewish love story
I wouldn’t say that I am super religious, but I am definitely religion-curious. It is a big part of my family background, and, to be honest, a big part of the history of my chosen field, Western classical music. For the past 1000 years, the church has been the most powerful commissioner of Western music, and its most active employer of musicians.
Because of this, much of our foundational repertoire is explicitly on the subject of how music helps a listener get in the mood for a religious experience…
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