Friday, April 29, 2011
David Lang • Julia Wolfe
Lang’s ‘wed’ and Wolfe’s ‘Early That Summer’, performed by ETHEL string quartet at Simple Measures @ Mt. Baker Community Club
Simple Measures
David Lang • Julia Wolfe
David Lang • Julia Wolfe
In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy organization dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. These days, Lang is an eminence: Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the Yale faculty, and composer in residence at Carnegie Hall for 2013-14. Justin Davidson talked with him midway through “collected stories,” a six-concert festival he curated at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and days before the release of his recordinglove/fail…
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