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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.
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.
Learn about David Lang, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and co-founder of Bang on a Can. Explore his diverse and innovative works for opera, orchestra, chamber and solo, and his collaborations with film, literature and architecture.
Nov 16, 2017 · 'crowd out' is a composition and performance for 1,000 voices by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang (co-founder of Bang on a Can, composer of The Lit...
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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...
May 20, 2014 · 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.
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Jan 25, 2017 · David Lang, 'again (after ecclesiastes)'. June 14, 2022 • In music of translucent constancy, the Pulitzer-winning composer finds philosophical questions — and comfort — in the Old Testament ...
