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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.
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.
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.
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...
May 20, 2014 · In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy organization dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal.
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...
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 ...
