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Jan 18, 2016 · From Shostakovich to Stockhausen, and plainchant to Adele and Elvis, Oscar-nominated composer David Lang on the music that inspires him. Mon 18 Jan 2016 02.00 EST Last modified on Wed 17 Aug 2022 ...
this was written by hand. Andrew Zolinsky. 2011. Cantaloupe Music. buy recording. More Info. Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms.
David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices. Lang was nominated for an Academy Award for "Simple Song #3" from the film Youth.
Jan 25, 2017 · January 25, 2017 • Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang has been a Philip Glass fan since high school. But it was a performance of the opera Satyagraha triggered a genuine epiphany.
“With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion (one of the most original and moving scores of recent years), Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master.” — The New Yorker Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the
"Third Telling", David Lang and Mac Wellman's "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field", directed by Luke Leonard.jpg 1,000 × 665; 258 KB David Lang at le poisson rouge.jpg 1,536 × 2,056; 727 KB Young Julia Wolfe with composer John Cage, David Lang, and Michael Gordon.jpg 680 × 640; 89 KB
The Little Match Girl Passion. The Little Match Girl Passion is a choral work by David Lang, based on the 1845 Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Little Match Girl". It is influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach ’s St Matthew Passion (1727) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2008. [1]
