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On October 2-5, So Percussion with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, give the US premiere of David Lang’s concerto for percussion quartet and orchestra, man made on their season opening concert. Lang combines found percussion (sticks, pipes, metal trash) with orchestral instruments in a unique and incredibly compelling work commissioned by the Barbican Centre and the Los Angeles Philharmonic…
continue readingOn August 13, The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center gives the world premiere of David Lang’s the public domain — a performance that not only welcomes the public as a free and open event, but will also be performed by the public. A piece inspired by the theme of the collective knowledge shared amongst us all, the new work is performed by 1,000 volunteer vocalists from throughout New York City, conducted by Simon Halsey, Choral Director of the London Symphony Orchestra…
continue readingNow featured on the international bestselling album I See You by British band The xx.
Listen to Lang’s original work here
See the UK premiere at the Royal College of Music
Perform just (after song of songs) with your ensemble!
August 1-2, conductor Louis Langrée with Sō Percussion and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, give the New York premiere of David Lang’s man made. In this percussion quartet concerto, Lang combines found percussion (sticks, pipes, metal trash) with orchestral instruments in a unique and incredibly compelling work commissioned by the Barbican Centre and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Watch a video about the concerto with Lang and So Percussion…
continue readingOn February 8, in Benaryoa Hall, conductor Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony premiere David Lang’s first symphony: symphony without a hero, commissioned for the Seattle Symphony by the Lynn and Brian Grant Family. The 27-minute work is in one movement, with two related parts — two separate musical movements that are performed simultaneously: one heavy and oppressive and one light and hopeful. Lang explains that one doesn’t “really hear the light and hopeful music until the oppressive movement ends.”
continue readingJune 6-8, 2019, music director Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic gave the world premiere of David Lang’s new, fully-staged opera, prisoner of the state, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer.
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.
Listen to an interview with Paul Lazar.
David describes the epiphany he had at nine years old that lead to his life as a composer. He and Paul have a fun, freewheeling conversation amidst excerpts of David’s music, with a little Steve Reich thrown in as well.
http://www.bboxradio.com/archive/talk-to-paulie/1202-talk-to-paulie.html
This weekend, David Lang wrote a fun article for the New York Times!
“…It’s like car mechanics talking about the wiring under the hood — good wiring is essential but cars exist because ordinary people need to get places. So I was feeling isolated from the audience, and itching to get back into the real world, where the real listeners live…”
On Saturday July 14 at 8pm at the World Financial Center Plaza, Lang’s hour-long, slowly-evolving work for strings, darker, is the starting point for a live re-imagination by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin), who will real time loop and electronically process the live string sound of A Far Cry Orchestra back over and on to themselves.
Lopatin will also present his own work with selections from of his critically acclaimed albums (Returnal and Replica) specially arranged for A Far Cry Orchestra…
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