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when we were children — a setting of a text from Saint Paul
Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, David Lang’s the little match girl passion has 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…
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Edvard Grieg Kor
SATB
commissioned by The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor, with the support of the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music.
SAA
commissioned by Trio Mediaeval with support from Arts Council Norway
major roles: Bar, lyric Sop, Ten, Mz Sop, dramatic Ten, character Sop, Bass; and 3 Ten, Sop, 2Bar, Bass, silent girl, chorus; 2(pic)2(ca)2(bcl)2/4220/2perc/pf(syn).hp/str
the Santa Fe Opera
percussion concerto 1,2,2,2/2111/timp,3perc,pf/str
the Eos Orchestra for Evelyn Glennie
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the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
I had two jobs my senior year in high school—a music-related job and a film-related job. All these years later, both are on my mind, since I have been spending time in Los Angeles helping to promote Paolo Sorrentino’s new film Youth, for which I wrote the music.
I live in New York, but I grew up in Los Angeles, in Westwood, which is the neighborhood that surrounds UCLA. These days Westwood is a kind of anonymous shopping district, but in 1973, when I worked there, it still felt like a college town…
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