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.”
continue reading Search Results for:
BERLIN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS CHOIR
Oral History, American Music: David Lang
Oral History of American Music (OHAM) is the only ongoing project in the field of music dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral and video memoirs in the voices of the creative musicians of our century.
Read more…David Lang & Bill Morrison present The Village Detective: a song cycle
Recorded by Frode Andersen (accordion)
featuring Shara Nova (guest vocals on “I cross the field”)
The film premieres April 27 at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Soundtrack now streaming on all digital services
Conceived as a suite for a single accordion, David Lang’s soundtrack for the forthcoming Bill Morrison film (slated for theatrical release later this year via Kino Lorber) evokes a remarkable turn into folk traditions inspired by Russian storytelling…
continue readinglove fail premieres at Yale
Lang’s newest work, love fail, premieres June 29 at the New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Performed by the legendary vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, love fail is an evening-length work that weaves together snippets of medieval courtly love narratives, short stories by MacArthur Fellow Lydia Davis, scraps from the libretto of Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, and text by Lang himself.
Out of these sources, Lang has conjured a single story, in which two unnamed lovers meet each other, love each other, and lose each other—not necessarily in that order…
continue reading‘the difficulty of crossing a field’ at Nashville Opera
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,
continue reading‘the loser’ premieres at Brooklyn Academy of Music
the loser September 7-11, 2016. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Gilman Opera House.
He appears to float in the nothingness. Confined to a tall tower 20 feet above the seats, he is alone, broken, and has a story to tell.
In this daringly staged one-act opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang—featuring mezzanine-only seating and based on the novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard—a failed piano student (baritone Rod Gilfry, Anna Nicole, 2013 Next Wave) recounts a life lived in the shadows of his famous friend Glenn Gould…
continue readingContacts
G. Ricordi & Co., New York
Universal Music Classics and Screen
p: (+1) 346.402.6887
Commissioning, Residencies, and Appearances
email hidden; JavaScript is required
Publicity (press inquiries, interviews, etc.)
Amanda Ameer, publicist
First Chair Promotion
Obtaining Scores or other performance materials
To PURCHASE music (5 players or fewer), please go to the following links:
- if you live in NORTH AMERICA (Canada/USA/Mexico)
CLICK HERE
(you will be redirected to Subito Music)
- if you live OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA
CLICK HERE
(you will be redirected to MusicShopEurope)
To RENT/HIRE music (6 players or more) anywhere in the world, please go to www.zinfonia.com
Licensing
Rights for film, TV or streaming video
To license any of David Lang’s pre-existing music for synchronization:
or email: email hidden; JavaScript is required
For bespoke music for film/television, please write:
Andrew Zack (Gorfaine Schwartz Agency)
Rights for dance and other staged works
Please click here and choose “Offices and Agents” tab…
continue readingTallis Scholars premiere ‘sun-centered’
In April and May, The Tallis Scholars premiered sun-centered, a work commissioned to share a program with Antoine Brumel’s monumental Missa “Et ecce terræ motus” — a Renaissance mass for 12 voices that gets its name from a scrap of chant whose text means ‘and the earth moved.’
Lang describes the connection:
This scrap of text immediately reminded me of Galileo’s trial for the blasphemy of proving the Earth revolves around the Sun, which seemed to contradict the Bible…
continue readingOneohtrix Point Never remixes ‘darker’ at River to River festival
On Saturday July 14 at 8pm at the World Financial Center Plaza, Lang’s hour-long, slowly-evolving work for strings, darker, is the starting point for a live re-imagination by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin), who will real time loop and electronically process the live string sound of A Far Cry Orchestra back over and on to themselves.
Lopatin will also present his own work with selections from of his critically acclaimed albums (Returnal and Replica) specially arranged for A Far Cry Orchestra…
continue readingDavid Lang’s music featured in new film by Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino
David Lang’s music is featured in the upcoming film, Youth, by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino — 2014 Oscar-winner for best foreign film (The Great Beauty). David scored the new film (about a contemporary composer), and one of his recent pieces ‘just (after song of songs)’ is the music for the official trailer! It was commissioned, premiered and released by the Louth Contemporary Music Society and is performed by vocalists Trio Mediaeval and Garth Knox’s Salterro Trio…