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the difficulty of crossing a field
BREATHING IN/BREATHING OUT: A Little Anthology of Piano Music
In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty
A Dark, Modern Version of Beethoven’s Only Opera
Bang on a Can All-Stars Premiere Field Recordings
At the Barbican Centre in London, on March 20, 2012, the Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere Field Recordings — with new works by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe. The evening-length project that is as much a mystery as a concert – a kind of ghost story. The ghosts aren’t the physical presence of people gone before, but they are the ghosts of sounds, images, ideas, and voices. Each composer has been asked to find and interact with something recorded before, using the power of music made right in front of us to reach out to other things not present…
continue readingWaPo Best of 2019: Classical Music
By Anne Midgette
Classical music critic
Dec. 10, 2019
People often ask: Why can’t we update old operas for our time? With “Prisoner of the State,” David Lang has done just that. He remakes Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” a problem child of the repertory, into a new work that hews to the original in form while underscoring its relevance to today’s society…
continue readingstreet (1994) 8'
fl, 3 sop sx, hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, pno, e bs (amplified)
Orkest de Volharding
oh graveyard (2010) 3'
Text by David Lang (after the spiritual "Lay This Body Down")
SATB
Conspirare
light moving (2012) 4'
violin, piano
Hilary Hahn