I became a composer because, when I was nine years old, I saw a movie of Leonard Bernstein conducting Shostakovich’s First Symphony with the New York Philharmonic. I fell in love immediately with the music of Shostakovich, with the idea of being a composer, with the orchestra itself. I was so in love with Shostakovich, in fact, that I immersed myself in his music, and then all Russian music, then I studied the Russian language in school, I read all the Russian literature I could find, and I spent the summer of 1975 studying in the Soviet Union…
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The Music Gallery: Post-Classical Series
symphony without a hero: Feb 8 & 10, Seattle Symph
Lang: Are You Experienced? / Under Orpheus / Adams: Grand Pianola Music
LA Opera online premiere: ‘let me come in’
LA Opera releases the latest in their online series “On Now”: David Lang’s let me come in features soprano Angel Blue, with conductor Bryan Wagorn, violist David Creswell, cellist Anja Wood, and percussionist Miles Salerni.
Co-commissioned by LA Opera and the Fisher Center at Bard College, this online premiere of let me come in is accompanied by a new film by filmmaker Bill Morrison …
continue reading‘the loser’ New York Times review
“…the score is a model of how music can animate words. The text is set with impressive clarity, and Mr. Gilfry sings every phrase with crisp diction and dramatic point, delivering phrases with virile energy, sudden bluster, or, during vulnerable moments, an aching confusion that takes you by surprise.”
— Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
‘just (after song of songs)’ on The xx ‘Lips’
Now featured on the international bestselling album I See You by British band The xx.
Listen to Lang’s original work here
See the UK premiere at the Royal College of Music
Perform just (after song of songs) with your ensemble!
world premiere: ‘prisoner of the state’
June 6-8, 2019, music director Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic gave the world premiere of David Lang’s new, fully-staged opera, prisoner of the state, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer.