Pre-order Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer before April 20 and receive advance copies, signed CDs, credit as an Associate Producer (order before February 18), and special hand-drawn score page from Steel Hammer, the hotly anticipated album by Julia Wolfe, featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval. Inspired by her love for the music […]
Read MoreAs part of the 2013/2014 Debs Chair composer-in-residence at Carnegie Hall, David Lang has curated an amazing series of concerts to focus on the art of storytelling in music. From April 22-29, Carnegie Hall presents: Collected Stories Lang comments on the mini-festival: Music and storytelling began their lives together—music to accompany heroic tales, music to […]
Read MoreOn March 25, Cantaloupe Music releases Michael Gordon’s latest CD, Rushes. From March 26 – 29, Michael Gordon’s Rushes, for 7 bassoons, goes on tour in the Northeast culminating in a much-anticipated performance at Peak Performances at Montclair State University. March 26: Tufts UniversityMarch 28: Crane Arts CenterMarch 29: Peak Performances Gordon describes the concert-length, […]
Read MoreSince winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, David Lang’s the little match girl passionhas quickly joined the repertoire as a chamber work, a staged production, a work for full chorus, and a featured event on Christmas and Easter concerts around the world. This season over 50 performances of the little match girl passion are being […]
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Read MoreOn November 14 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the percussionists of the San Francisco Contemporary Players perform Michael Gordon’s acclaimed, hypnotic, epic concert-length work Timber for 6 percussionists. Scored for six graduated, amplified, wooden simantras (2x4s) the work brings the physicality, endurance and technique of percussion performance to a new level. In […]
Read Morepain changes from David Lang’s ‘death speaks’ from Red Poppy Music on Vimeo. David’s video for “pain changes” from death speaks premieres today on stereogum.com. Additionally, death speaks is released today in limited edition vinyl. Click here to purchase your copy! Here is an interview about the video with David, conducted by Shara Worden: SHARA […]
Read More[video:http://youtu.be/pf_rqGtUXHs width:300 height:200] This season Julia Wolfe’s large works for string orchestra, Fuel and Cruel Sister, are performed at Carnegie Hall by two of the country’s leading interpretors of contemporary works. On October 25, Robert Spano leads the American Composers Orchestra in their Carnegie performance of Julia Wolfe’s full-throttled work for strings, Fuel, on a […]
Read MoreHi Everyone! I am really excited that my piece ‘man made’ for So Percussion and orchestra is now up on the BBC site, ready to be heard. ‘man made’ was co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and it premiered this past May at the Barbican, played by So and the […]
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