a house (2016) 18'
text by David Lang
SATB
Northwestern University
SATB
Northwestern University
Sop, Mezzo,Ten,Bar,B,small chor, string quartet
the American Conservatory Theater for the Kronos Quartet
40 solo voices, arranged in 8 groups of s,a,t,bar,b
Sage Gateshead
Secrets Found Online, Shared Softly
David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web
By WILLIAM ROBIN, August 2, 2013
Opera and technology have long had an uneasy relationship. The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.
Historically, though, opera tended to avoid confronting the technological head-on…
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