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The Singers
project
works
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.
works
The Carbon Copy Building (1999) 72'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Text by Ben Katchor
Cast: Ms, T, Bar, Bar/Ct; cl(bcl, cbcl, ssx)/perc/syn/egtr [all instruments and voices amplified]
Settembre Musica Festival and the city council of Turin, Italy, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
works
the public domain (2016) 30'
1000 singers
Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival,Doelen Concert Hall in Holland,Internationale Koorbiënnale Haarlem,Berlin Philharmonic, and the London Symphony
works
the same train (same train) (2012) 3'
SATB
Harold Rosenbaum and the New York Virtuoso Singers
works
the mile-long opera (2018) 60'
co-created with Elizabeth Diller; texts by Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine
1000 singers
works
love fail – arr. female chorus (2012, rev. 2016) 60'
Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)
SSAA chorus (or 8 solo women singers) playing simple percussion instruments
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
interviews
BOMB Magazine
December 1, 2012
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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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i never (2010) 9'
Text by David Lang (after Thomas Tallis)
40 solo voices, arranged in 8 groups of s,a,t,bar,b
Sage Gateshead
works
protect yourself from infection (2020) 6'
SATB
The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia