Different music languages, 50 young voices and a string quartet merged into one for their final concert in the United States this season. Two outstanding music ensembles, the Danish String Quartet & Danish National Girls’ Choir, presented an unusual staged performance, sponsored by Washington Performing Arts, in downtown Washington D.C. at Church of the Epiphany for a capacity audience. {…}
The New York Philharmonic has announced The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. The prize recognizes extraordinary artistic endeavors in the field of new music and this year the award is going to American composers David Lang and Missy Mazzoli. The Kravis Prize includes $200,000 and a commission for a work that the New York Philharmonic will premiere. Lang’s new {…}
Death of Classical has announced its new concert series, “The Light After.” The new collaboration between Death of Classical, St. John the Divine, and Trinity Church features three evenings of music in the Crypt under the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Chamber groups from Trinity’s acclaimed new music ensemble NOVUS perform. The first concert includes selection of music {…}
(Photo: Steven Pisano) Death of Classical‘s 2023-24 season concluded The Crypt Sessions with David Lang‘s very timely “The Little Match Girl Passion” featuring the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble at NYC’s Church of the Intercession on December 12, 2023. “The Little Match Girl Passion,” based on The Little Match Girl by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, originally debuted in 2007 at Zankel {…}
Japan Society will premiere Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s newly commissioned opera, “note to a friend,” as part of the 10th Anniversary of the Prototype Festival in January 2023. This new work reimagines three texts written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and navigates the nuanced complexities of a human being’s perspective on his own life and afterlife. OperaWire visited more with Lang about {…}
Japan Society is set to present the world premiere of “Note to a Friend,” a new opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Bang on a Can co-founder David Lang. The work is commissioned and presented by Japan Society and co-produced by Japan Society and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan as part of the 2023 PROTOTYPE Festival. “Note to a Friend” is Lang’s {…}
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) has announced the lineup for a new music series that explores the pandemic’s impact on children and young adults. The series, entitled “AloneTogether,” will take place in an immersive, mixed-media art exhibition at New York’s High Line Nine Gallery through Dec. 19, 2021. The events will feature world premieres of works {…}
LA Opera has announced the April 30, 2021 premiere of ‘let me come in,” a digital short film created by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and filmmaker Bill Morrison. Star soprano Angel Blue provided the vocals for the Lang/Morrison collaboration, for which Lang served as both composer and lyricist. The premiere will stream on LA Opera’s “On Now” platform as {…}
WQXR, New York City’s only all-classical radio station, announced four platforms to aid the city’s creative community and sustain the arts culture for which The Big Apple is famous. The station’s multi-pronged approach named STAR (Salutes The ARts) represents the first initiative led by WQXR’s new Chief Content Officer and Senior Vice President, Ed Yim. STAR comprises four initiatives: the {…}
The Lorelei Ensemble has released David Lang’s “love fail” on Cantaloupe Music. When it premiered in 2012, the piece was originally written for vocal quartet with simple percussion instruments, but in 2016, it was revised for a woman’s chorus. It retells the story of “Tristan und Isolde” from more modern works and versions by several artists, including Richard Wagner. “We {…}
The New York City Master Chorale is set to showcase “The Little Match Girl Passion” on Feb. 29, 2020 at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea, New York. The performance, the second of the company’s 14th season, will feature the composition by David Lang, alongside “Wanting Memories” by Ysaye M. Barnwell, “Horizons” by Peter Louis van Dijk, and {…}