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David Lang Wants to Be More Superficial
In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy organization dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. These days, Lang is an eminence: Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the Yale faculty, and composer in residence at Carnegie Hall for 2013-14. Justin Davidson talked with him midway through “collected stories,” a six-concert festival he curated at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and days before the release of his recordinglove/fail…
continue reading‘the writings’ premiere recording
“[the writings] are enchanted unaccompanied choral pieces, jewel-like in their crystalline beauty and performed with just the right degree of gentle detachment by Cappella Amsterdam.”
— Andrew Clements, The Guardian
Conductor Daniel Reuss and Cappella Amsterdam’s premiere recording of David Lang’s a cappella cycle the writings is now available on Pentatone Records and all streaming services…
continue readingPiano Competition Concert
On May 6 at (le) Poisson Rouge, pianists Andrew Zolinsky and Peter Poston, winner of the David Lang 2011 Piano Competition, will perform selections from David Lang’s new CD of solo piano works, this was written by hand. Click here to watch Lang discuss his new CD.
Lang Piano Competition Concert!
After much anticipation….. On May 6, David Lang hosts the winners of his piano competion at (le) Poisson Rouge.
The winner, Peter Poston, performs his winning-version of Lang’s solo, wed; Andrew Zolinsky, who recorded Lang’s memory pieces recently on Cantaloupe; Zolinsky and Poston premiere a new work for piano-four-hands; and the runners-up premiere a new work for piano-six-hands.
This is a not-to-be-missed event!
‘the little match girl passion’ performed by The Crossing at Met Museum: New York Times review
A Haunting Tale, Perfect for Christmas
The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met
Tina Fineberg for The New York Times
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published: December 24, 2012
At holiday time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art draws countless visitors to its Medieval Sculpture Garden to see the splendidChristmas tree and 18th-century Neapolitan crèche…
continue reading‘the difficulty of crossing a field’ CD released June 9
Hi! David Lang here. I am very excited that today is the world premiere CD release of my opera the difficulty of crossing a field. It is my most favorite piece that I have ever written, ever. I mean it. I am so happy about this CD.
Please click here to listen to the CD (password: Crossing2015) and here to buy the CD or the download!…
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G. Ricordi & Co., New York
Universal Music Classics and Screen
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Commissioning, Residencies, and Appearances
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