November 9-11, The Nashville Opera presents David Lang’s chamber opera the difficulty of crossing a field.
With this work, Lang and multi-Obie award-winning playwright Mac Wellman have created a radical cross between opera and theater mixing arias with spoken text, emotional melodies with intense drama, and featuring a string quartet as both the ‘orchestra’ and as part of the staging.
Based on a one-page short story by American satirist and abolitionist author,
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The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met
Tina Fineberg for The New York Times
Members of the Crossing, a choir of 24, at the Metropolitan Museum.
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published: December 24, 2012
At holiday time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art draws countless visitors to its Medieval Sculpture Garden to see the splendidChristmas tree and 18th-century Neapolitan crèche…
continue reading“Art songs have been moving out of classical music in the last many years,” writes composer David Lang. “Indie rock seems to be the place where Schubert’s sensibilities now lie, a better match for direct story telling and intimate emotionality.”
Lang’s death speaks, along with his work depart, is released on Cantaloupe music on April 30.
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In death speaks — co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts, and written for Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett and Shara Worden — Lang explores art song with the help of a group of classically trained artists who made their careers in the indie rock world…
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Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa for Maya Beiser
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
mumbling choir
Pulitzer Arts
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
