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…
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Univeristy of Windsor Wind Ensmble
Piano Competition Concert
On May 6 at (le) Poisson Rouge, pianists Andrew Zolinsky and Peter Poston, winner of the David Lang 2011 Piano Competition, will perform selections from David Lang’s new CD of solo piano works, this was written by hand. Click here to watch Lang discuss his new CD.
Lang Piano Competition Concert!
After much anticipation….. On May 6, David Lang hosts the winners of his piano competion at (le) Poisson Rouge.
The winner, Peter Poston, performs his winning-version of Lang’s solo, wed; Andrew Zolinsky, who recorded Lang’s memory pieces recently on Cantaloupe; Zolinsky and Poston premiere a new work for piano-four-hands; and the runners-up premiere a new work for piano-six-hands.
This is a not-to-be-missed event!
Building the Waiting Room: An Interview with David Lang
By Galen H. Brown
On November 3rd, I sat down with David Lang at a cafe in Downtown Manhattan. I recorded the interview (on my iPod) intending to transcribe it, but the audio, while still marred by a lot of background noise, is actually listenable. (…)
‘Bang on a Can’ Showcases Inventive Classical Music
For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more eclectic scores at the ‘Bang on a Can’ festival in North Adams, Mass. Jeffrey Brown explores the origins of the event.
Salles des Departs
Imagine that you’re a composer. Imagine getting this commission: ”Please write us a song that will allow family members to face the death of a loved one…” Well, composer David Lang had to do just that when a hospital in Garches, France, asked him to write music for their morgue, or ”Salle Des Departs.”
What do you do? What should death sound like?
Producer Jocelyn Gonzales brings us this piece about David Lang and his commission for the ”Salle Des Departs.”
Lang Talks to Paulie
Listen to an interview with Paul Lazar.
David describes the epiphany he had at nine years old that lead to his life as a composer. He and Paul have a fun, freewheeling conversation amidst excerpts of David’s music, with a little Steve Reich thrown in as well.
http://www.bboxradio.com/archive/talk-to-paulie/1202-talk-to-paulie.html
David Lang Checks In
David Lang visits the WNYC studio for this edition of New Sounds. Featured are his Pultizer Prize-winning piece ”the little match girl passion,” and other recent recordings.
Read more…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. (…)
shade EP
Fueled by inspired performances from Mammoth Trio (pianist Lisa Moore, cellist Ashley Bathgate and violinist Elly Toyoda) and the NYC-based Contemporaneous ensemble (conducted by David Bloom), shade presents premiere recordings of two works by Lang. The title work, shade, is a virtuosic and emotionally wide-ranging concerto for piano trio and string orchestra. The second work, wed, is an arrangement for string orchestra of a short tragic work Lang originally composed for string quartet…
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