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David Lang

the national anthems (2014) 24'

Text by David Lang

SATB + string quartet

LA Master Chorale, the Berlin Radio Choir, andYale Choral Artists

Program Note Libretto Recordings rent music score preview More Info

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David Lang

the national anthems (arr. string orchestra) (2023) 24'

Text by David Lang

SATB + string orchestra

LA Master Chorale, the Berlin Radio Choir, and Yale Choral Artists

Program Note Libretto Recordings rent music More Info

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Fuel and Cruel Sister at Carnegie Hall

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This season Julia Wolfe’s large works for string orchestra, Fuel and Cruel Sister, are performed at Carnegie Hall by two of the country’s leading interpretors of contemporary works.

On October 25, Robert Spano leads the American Composers Orchestra in their Carnegie performance of Julia Wolfe’s full-throttled work for strings, Fuel, on a concert dubbed “Orchestra Underground: Adding Fuel to the Fire”…

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Donald Martin Jenni (1937-2006): A Remembrance

July 28, 2006

Two weeks ago I received a sad email, telling me that the composer Donald Martin Jenni had died, from a long and painful cancer. My first thought was that I was sorry I had not kept in closer contact, my second was that I was surprised to read in his obituary that he had ended up in New Orleans, with a new life and an adopted family. His life had changed so much since I had known him. I had been a masters student of Martin's from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Iowa, and although we had stayed in touch after I left Iowa—we would send each other music and he would come visit whenever he was in New York—the second that he retired he vanished…

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