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University of Ottawa Contemporary Music Ensemble
Monday, June 12, 2023 – 9:00pm
‘prayers for night and sleep’, ‘glory (from mystery sonatas)’, ‘almost all the time’, ‘just (after song of songs)’ performed by Ensemble Etna Contemporanea
Catania, Italy
Monday, December 16, 2013
‘wed’ for brass quintet, ‘again (after ecclesiastes)’, ‘i lie’, and ‘sweet air’ performed by ArtEZ School of Music in The Netherlands
Monday, September 4, 2023 – 7:00pm
‘just (after song of songs)’, ‘for love is strong’, ‘let me come in’, ‘the sense of senses’, ‘we were’ performed by Vox Clamantis
Pärnu, Estonia
The Music of Blighted Dreams: David Lang’s the loser
BREATHING IN/BREATHING OUT: A Little Anthology of Piano Music
David Lang Profile in New York Times
DAVID LANG first heard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” at the San Francisco Opera in 1974, as an undergraduate student and aspiring composer. This was the first opera ticket — standing room — that he had paid for with his own money, and he arrived well prepared, with a copy of the score and a flashlight to study it by.
“It was a really big deal for me,” Mr. Lang, now 55, said recently, sitting on a sofa in his light-flooded SoHo loft while two parakeets called noisily for attention from another room…
continue reading10 Years of ‘the little match girl passion’
On October 27, 2007 Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices premiered David Lang’s the little match girl passion in Carnegie Hall. The composition won Lang a Pulitzer Prize, the recording won a Grammy Award, and the score has since become one of the most performed new works in the world.
Staged by Glimmerglass Opera and Portland Opera, choreographed by the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet, with theatrical productions in Moscow, London, Edinburgh, and Sydney, it has been performed over 400 times across 35 countries…
continue readingWaPo Best of 2019: Classical Music
By Anne Midgette
Classical music critic
Dec. 10, 2019
People often ask: Why can’t we update old operas for our time? With “Prisoner of the State,” David Lang has done just that. He remakes Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” a problem child of the repertory, into a new work that hews to the original in form while underscoring its relevance to today’s society…
continue readingThe Season of ‘the little match girl passion’
Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, David Lang’s the little match girl passionhas quickly joined the repertoire as a chamber work, a staged production, a work for full chorus, and a featured event on Christmas and Easter concerts around the world.
This season over 50 performances of the little match girl passion are being given by ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Australia, including the return of Donald Nally’s The Crossing to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art…
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