Chorus/Vocal

poor hymnal (2023) 60'

word and music by David Lang

SATB

co-commissioned for The Crossing and Donald Nally by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Jill and Loren Bough, and Peggy and Mark Curchack.

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the national anthems (arr. string orchestra) (2023) 24'

Text by David Lang

SATB + string orchestra

LA Master Chorale, the Berlin Radio Choir, and Yale Choral Artists

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song of songs (2022) 60'

a collection of vocal works

various combinations of solo voice, chorus and 3 instruments based on different rewritings of the Biblical 'Song of Songs'

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sun-centered (2022) 25'

chamber choir

Commissioned for the Tallis Scholars by Cal Performances, Carnegie Hall Corporation, Hopkins Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Stanford Live, Virginia Tech and Concertgebouw Bruges (Belgium).

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we were (2021) 10'

text by David Lang (after Song of Songs)

let me come in (2021) 10'

text by David Lang (after Song of Songs 5:2)

stateless (2019) 6'

text by David Lang, after a letter by Rabbi Moses ben Nachman

a girl (2017) 4'

text in Yiddish, by an anonymous author

solitary (2016) 8'

text by David Lang (after the Book of Lamentations)

a house (2016) 18'

text by David Lang

last spring (2015) 5'

words and music by david lang (after aasmund olavsson vinje)

Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'

music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo

where you go (2015) 8'

Text by David Lang after the Book of Ruth

love fail (2012) 60'

Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)

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)

i never (2010) 9'

Text by David Lang (after Thomas Tallis)

oh graveyard (2010) 3'

Text by David Lang (after the spiritual "Lay This Body Down")

battle hymns (2009) 50'

Text by David Lang (after Sullivan Ballou, Stephen Foster and Abraham Lincoln)

i lie (2001) 5'

Text (Yiddish) by Joseph Rolnick

by fire (1984) 5'

Text by Sun Tzu, Robert Scheer