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Thursday, November 3, 2022 – 7:30pm
‘cheating, lying, stealing’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Thursday, October 5, 2023 – 7:30pm
‘again (after ecclesiastes)’, ‘learn to fly’ from ‘these broken wings’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Thursday, February 5, 2015
‘ark luggage’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Thursday, April 13, 2017
‘the so-called laws of nature’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Thursday, November 9, 2017
‘just (after song of songs) performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Thursday, March 28, 2013
‘orpheus over and under’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
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
love fail was co-commissioned by 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 Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa. Movement 4, 'the wood and the vine', was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at University of Denver, The University of California at Riverside, and the Santa Fe Concert Association in Santa FE, NM. Movement 10, 'I live in pain', in a different version, was originally written for “TheCrossing,” Donald Nally, conductor.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
‘unchained melody’ performed by Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
New Haven, CT
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…
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