On 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.”
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Björk releases “mixtape” with two Lang tracks!
Listen to a “mixtape” produced by Björk that includes two excerpts by David Lang! death speaks and sweet air! enjoy!
‘true pearl’ premieres at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
David Lang’s true pearl: an opera in five tapestries (with libretto by Sybil Kempson), is inspired by Isabella Stewart Gardner’s sixteenth-century tapestries that tell the story of the first king of Persia, Cyrus the Great. The five-part “in-ear opera” is a private experience, available only through headphones in the Museum’s Tapestry Room. The “stage set” for each scene is an individual tapestry from the Cyrus series, and listeners are immediately immersed into tales of empire building and passion…
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Fueled by inspired performances from Mammoth Trio (pianist Lisa Moore, cellist Ashley Bathgate and violinist Elly Toyoda) and the NYC-based Contemporaneous ensemble (conducted by David Bloom), shade presents premiere recordings of two works by Lang. The title work, shade, is a virtuosic and emotionally wide-ranging concerto for piano trio and string orchestra. The second work, wed, is an arrangement for string orchestra of a short tragic work Lang originally composed for string quartet…
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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…”
NPR Music’s 25 Favorite Albums Of The Year (So Far)
NPR Music announced their 25 Favorite Albums of the Year (so far)… and David Lang’s ‘death speaks’ is on their list!
Here’s what they have to say about it:
You probably wouldn’t expect The National‘s Bryce Dessner and My Brightest Diamond‘s Shara Worden to work on a classically focused project inspired by Franz Schubert, but that’s exactly what happens within composer David Lang‘s amazing Death Speaks, which also features Nico Muhly playing piano and Owen Pallett on violin…
continue readingTorino Vocal Ensemble Records ‘i lie’
Rome is the set for Torino Vocal Ensemble, as they record David’s piece ‘I lie’ for Paolo Sorrentino’s new film La Grande Bellezza, conducted by Carlo Boccadoro. The film’s soundtrack also includes David’s ‘world to come.’
Here’s a short clip of the group behind the scenes:
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continue readingSteve Reich MacDowell Colony Medal Day Speech
I want to begin this speech with a little aphorism translated from the Hebrew: ”Say little, and do much.” This is from an early book of the Talmud called Sayings of the Fathers. I wish I could say that I learned it from my own Hebrew studies, but I
can’t. I learned it from Steve Reich. This little phrase — say little and do much — is the entire text of the last movement of Steve’s most recent and remarkable piece, You Are Variations…