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City Music Foundation
Thursday, June 28, 2018
David Lang
‘death speaks’ performed by City Music Foundation
London, United Kingdom
symphony for broken instruments (2017) 30'
for orchestra of broken instruments
Temple Contemporary, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation. Temple Contemporary is part of Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
Anthracite Fields (2014) 65'
SATB chorus, cl, egtr, perc, pno, vc, db
Anthracite Fields was commissioned through Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Additional support was made possible through the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia Alan Harler New Ventures Fund; the Presser Foundation; The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Philadelphia Music Project.
solitary (2016) 8'
text by David Lang (after the Book of Lamentations)
chamber choir or 12 solo voices
Cappella Amsterdam
the anvil chorus (1991) 7'
solo percussion
Fromm Foundation for Steven Schick
Four Marys (1991) 11'
string quartet
the Koussevitzky Foundation
Material (2016) 65'
2 pianos, 2 percussion
commissioned for Yarn/Wire by the Augustine Foundation
reason to believe (2011) 18'
Text by David Lang
3 voices (SSA) with orchestra 2+picc,2, 2, 2 / 4, 3, 2+btbn, 1 / harp, timp, 2 perc, strings
Trio Mediaeval
Julia Wolfe Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Julia Wolfe Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Anthracite Fields
an oratorio for chorus and instruments
“[Anthracite Fields] captures not only the sadness of hard lives lost…but also of the sweetness and passion of a way of daily life now also lost. The music compels without overstatement. This is a major, profound work.” — Mark Swed, LA Times
Read NPR interview with Wolfe here…
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