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The Music Gallery: Post-Classical Series
Oral History, American Music: David Lang
Sounds Heard: the little match girl passion
By Molly Sheridan
Read more…”I wanted to tell a story,” writes David Lang, introducing the new recording (just out on Harmonia Mundi) of his 2008 Pulitzer-Prize winner the little match girl passion. Such a simple and powerful desire; such a simple and powerful story to tell. (…)
ornament and reproach (2013) 3'
solo piano
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
memorial ground (2016) 30'
massed singers and soloists
commissioned by East Neuk Festival and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by the National Lottery throughthe Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England and by the Department for Culture Media and Sport, with the support of Creative Scotland.
a girl (2017) 4'
text in Yiddish, by an anonymous author
women's choir
The Choir of California Lutheran University
harmony and understanding (2018) 20'
for orchestra and audience
Co-commissioned by the Kantonsschule Alpenquai, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy.
ordinary (2012) 3'
organ
commissioned by the MusicNOW Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio
by fire (1984) 5'
Text by Sun Tzu, Robert Scheer
small chorus SATB
the BBC Singers