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Apr 12, 2011 · farmer legend mystery story. A year after David Lang disappeared in 1880, his daughter went to that exact spot and heard her father's faint voice calling for help.
David Lang (born January 8, 1957) 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. [1]
Lang is a Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music, and is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can. His music is published by Red Poppy Music and G. Ricordi & Co., New York (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by the Universal Music Publishing Group.
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.
Bang on a Can co-founder and co-artistic director David Lang: “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.”
Temple Contemporary, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation. Temple Contemporary is part of Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Program Note Recordings rent music score preview More Info.
Jun 7, 2019 · Last night Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic gave the World Premiere performance of David Lang’s “prisoner of the state” — a fully staged reimagining of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,”...
