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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…
continue readingoh graveyard (2010) 3'
Text by David Lang (after the spiritual "Lay This Body Down")
SATB
Conspirare
Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
European Premiere: ‘prisoner of the state’
After its acclaimed world premiere in June 2019 with the New York Philharmonic, David Lang’s fully-staged opera, prisoner of the state, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer, begins a European premiere tour 11 January at the Barbican Centre in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and conductor Ilan Volkov.
prisoner of the state was co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Rotterdam’s De Doelen, London’s Barbican Centre, Barcelona’s l’Auditori, Germany’s Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Belgium’s Concertgebouw Bruges and Sweden’s Malmö Opera…
continue readingSunday, October 16, 2016
‘cheating, lying, stealing’ performed by Mizzou New Music Ensemble
Columbia, MO
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Bang on a Can Sound @ Beijing Modern Music Festival
Beijing, China
Sunday, September 22, 2013
‘pierced’, ‘cheating, lying, stealing’, and ‘increase’ performed by the University of Iowa
Saturday, December 11, 2021 – 7:00pm
‘simple song #3’ performed by Yale Contemporary Ensemble
New Haven, CT
Friday, November 21, 2014
‘o isis osiris’ performed by University of Windsor
Windsor, ON, Canada