love fail (2012) 60'
Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
Commissioner:
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Wake Forest University / Secrest Artists Series, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa
First Performer:
Anonymous 4: 6/29/2012 -- International Festival of Arts and Ideas; Yale Repertory Theatre; New Haven, CT This work is currently unavailable due to performance exclusivities through June 2014.
love fail may be performed as a staged version or a concert version.