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sun-centered (2022) 25'

chamber choir

Commissioned for the Tallis Scholars by Cal Performances, Carnegie Hall Corporation, Hopkins Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Stanford Live, Virginia Tech and Concertgebouw Bruges (Belgium).

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Monday, July 9, 2012

Lang’s ‘wed’ and Wolfe’s ‘Early That Summer’, performed by ETHEL string quartet at the Chautauqua Institution

The Chautauqua Institution

Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall
Chautauqua, NY 14722

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cheating, lying, stealing – arr. band (2011) 12'

2+picc, 2, 3+Eb+bcl,3 / 2 alto sax, ten sax, bari sax / 4,3,2+btbn,euphonium, 1 / piano, 4 perc, string bass

Bowling Green State University

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cheating, lying, stealing (1993, rev. 1995) 11'

bcl,vc,pf,perc,and 2 antiphonal brake drums

Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Commissioning Program for Present Music, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Collage

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death speaks (2012) 26'

Text by David Lang

soprano, vln, egtr, pno - all amplified

Carnegie Hall Corporation and Stanford Lively Arts

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the writings (2019) 55'

SATB

Carnegie Hall and Nederlands Kamerkoor

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again after ecclesiastes

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NY 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…

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