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Time's Arrow New Music Ensemble
the loser (2016) 60'
solo baritone, solo piano; perc, va, vc, db
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2016 Next Wave Festival
prisoner of the state (2019) 75'
soprano, tenor, baritone, bass; men's chorus; 2+pic.2.2(bcl).2+cbn/4.2[in C].2.0/timp/3 perc/strings
New York Philharmonic, de Doelen Concert Hall, Barbican Centre, l’Auditori, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Bruges, and Malmö Opera.
BOMB Magazine
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David Lang is one of the most thoughtful composers working today. His music is consistently probing, emotionally urgent, strange, and beautiful. It is also getting simpler as the years roll on—a sign that the mind behind it is undergoing a kind of ritualistic purification. I’ve been obsessed with David’s music since I bought a recording by mail order of his piece cheating lying stealing when I was in high school, and I have written a piano piece called David Lang Needs a Hug…
continue readingBig risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
Sometimes, all you need is a little push. In the fall of 1976, when Julia Wolfe arrived at the University of Michigan from Pennsylvania, she was just 17 and viewed herself as a “wild teenager” with her sights on social sciences and politics. Activism was a possible path. Music wasn’t on her radar.
But one day, a friend coaxed Wolfe into taking a peculiar music class, taught by a forward-thinking Quaker who didn’t care how much you knew about composing…
continue readingDavid Lang Wants to Be More Superficial
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…
continue readingdeath speaks (2012) 26'
Text by David Lang
soprano, vln, egtr, pno - all amplified
Carnegie Hall Corporation and Stanford Lively Arts
Travel Guide to Nicaragua (2022) 70'
for solo cello and 24 voice choir
solo cello, SATB
Carnegie Hall, Penn Live Arts
cheating, lying, stealing (1993, rev. 1995) 11'
bcl,vc,pf,perc,and 2 antiphonal brake drums
Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Commissioning Program for Present Music, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Collage
Steel Hammer (2009) 70'
SSA, cl, perc, gtr, pf, vc, db
Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Carnegie Hall