click to read the NYT review “…the score is a model of how music can animate words. The text is set with impressive clarity, and Mr. Gilfry sings every phrase with crisp diction and dramatic point, delivering phrases with virile energy, sudden bluster, or, during vulnerable moments, an aching confusion that takes you by surprise.”— […]
Read Morethe loser September 7-11, 2016. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Gilman Opera House. He appears to float in the nothingness. Confined to a tall tower 20 feet above the seats, he is alone, broken, and has a story to tell. In this daringly staged one-act opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang—featuring mezzanine-only seating and based […]
Read MoreOn August 13, David Lang’s the public domain was given its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Read a selection of reviews of the performance, plus video of the show from the NY Times: click here for New York Times review. video from NY Times livestream: NPR review:
Read MoreAs part of the New York Commissions to honor the New York Philharmonic’s 175th season (2016-17) with New York-themed works by New York-based composers who have strong ties to the Philharmonic, Julia Wolfe presents a new evening-length piece for orchestra and women’s choir about women in the American work force. The Philharmonic plans to present […]
Read MoreJuly 29-30, the Britt Music & Arts Festival, presents the world premiere of Michael Gordon’s newest work for orchestra, Natural History, inspired by Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and commissioned by the Britt Orchestra as part of the 100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service. Natural History will premiere the morning of July 29, […]
Read MoreOn August 13, The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center gives the world premiere of David Lang’s the public domain — a performance that not only welcomes the public as a free and open event, but will also be performed by the public. A piece inspired by the theme of the collective knowledge shared amongst […]
Read MoreMaterialworld premiereMay 11-12Miller Theatre A new concert-length work for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists; an immersive environment for a uniquely intimate, multisensory series of four portrait concerts over two nights at Columbia University’s legendary new-music mecca! Columbia University’s iconic Miller Theatre presents the next installment of their Portrait concerts on May 11 and 12, with […]
Read MoreIn April, the Bang on a Can All-Stars travel to Europe for a blockbuster set of concerts, including the European premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields and the Dutch premiere of her Steel Hammer. On Saturday April 16, Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning, Anthracite Fields, a concert-length work for chorus and instruments, receives its European premiere with […]
Read MoreRead LA Times review ofWest Coast premiere at Disney HallThe Los Angeles Master Chorale andthe Bang on a Can All-Stars April 16, 2016The Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen click here to stream the musicclick here for the full album “[Anthracite Fields] captures not only the sadness of hard lives lost…but also of the sweetness and […]
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