In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy organization dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. These days, Lang is an eminence: Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the Yale faculty, and composer in residence at Carnegie Hall for 2013-14. Justin Davidson talked with him midway through “collected stories,” a six-concert festival he curated at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and days before the release of his recordinglove/fail…
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Daniel A. Mahraun
interviews
May 20, 2014
By Justin Davidson
works
after Stephen Foster (2009) 20'
SATB
Text by David Lang (after Stephen Foster)
The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Leah Stein Dance Company
works
wed (1992) 5'
piano solo
works
i never (2010) 9'
Text by David Lang (after Thomas Tallis)
40 solo voices, arranged in 8 groups of s,a,t,bar,b
Sage Gateshead
works
stateless (2019) 6'
text by David Lang, after a letter by Rabbi Moses ben Nachman
solo voices and chorus
Cor de Cambra del Palau
works
symphony for broken instruments (2017) 30'
for orchestra of broken instruments
Temple Contemporary, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation. Temple Contemporary is part of Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
works
miracle ear (1996) 4'
toy piano and metal pipes; for one player - who may be either a toy pianist or a percussionist
commissioned for recording by Margaret Leng Tan
works
statement to the court (2010) 10'
Text by Eugene Debs
SATB, strings, bass drum
The Crossing
works
wed – for string orchestra (2013) 5'
strings
Adelaide Festival
works
anatomy theater (2016) 75'
Mezzo,Ten,Bar,Bass, fl(picc),cl(bcl),tpt,perc,pf(acc),vn,va,vc,db