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David Lang Wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Monday, April 7, 2008. Composer David Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fable “The Little Match Girl," commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices and its director, Paul Hillier.
David is a world-renowned composer as well as Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the New York music collective, Bang on a Can.
His music has been performed by amongst others, the New York Philh
...Festival's 21st Birthday Celebration Blurs Boundaries, Dusk Till Dawn
A review of our 2008 Marathon Concert. See attached PDF.
Dan Deacon Banged On A Can @ World Financial Center, NYC 6/1/08
Stereogum reviews Dan Deacon's performance at the 2008 Bang on a Can Marathon. See attached PDF.
Dan Deacon's Ultimate Reality Part 3 @ Bang on a Can 2008
Brooklyn Vegan reviews Dan Deacon's performance at the 2008 Bang on a Can Marathon. See attached PDF.
Junot Diaz Wins Fiction Pulitzer; Tracy Letts Gets Prize for Drama
By Bob Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Junot Diaz has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," an ambitious, unconventional novel about a nerdy Dominican immigrant and his family that took him 11 years to complete.
"It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it," a stunned Diaz said shortly after receiving the news.
John Matteson won the biography prize for "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of
...David Lang Wins Music Pulitzer
By Tom Huizenga
NPR.org, April 7, 2008 - David Lang, a New York-based composer, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music with his piece, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the children's story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Lang's music makes a big impact with small forces. The piece is scored for only four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers. They sing the sad story of a little girl who freezes to death selling matches on the street during a cold winter's night.
In
...David Lang Wins Music Pulitzer
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY AP Music Writer April 7, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Lang had always loved Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion." But as a Jewish composer, listening to one of classical music's greatest works always gave him pause.
"It's a strange thing as a Jewish artist to listen to this music, because we are the enemy in this, we are the bad guy, and yet the music is fantastic," he said of the orchestral and choral piece, written for Easter and considered to have some anti-Semitic text.
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...Innovation as a Way of Life
David Lang writes a piece for The Voice of Chorus America. See attached PDF.
Breaking the Barriers of Music in a New York Marathon
By STEVE SMITH
Woodstock, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo — for decades, rock performers and fans have gathered in sweeping celebrations of music and tribal bonding. Excluding the Bayreuth Festival, the closest analog in the classical music world is probably the 12-hour marathon concerts staged regularly since 1987 by the collective Bang on a Can, founded that year by the composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe.
Bang on a Can turned 20 this year. Marking the occasion it mounted its most
...Bang on a Can Presents its First Ever 24+ Hour Marathon June 2-3
Classical, Electronica, Jazz & Indie-Rock Stars From Around the World Will Converge at The World Financial Center for a 24+ Hour Music Festival June 2-3, 2007
"Bang on a Can's 'Marathon'--imagine Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage--is a free-wheeling parade of the strange, the raucous, and the beautiful...There are other places to hear contemporary music, but it is seldom offered with such a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon."--Vanity Fair
On Saturday, June 2,
...Composers Add Tastes to Fusion
By ALLAN KOZINN
Bang on a Can has always been the most unabashedly populist of new-music organizations. Its name suggests that anyone can make music on anything, and its boundary-crossing programs have been built on the notion that contemporary music can embrace elements of rock, jazz and world music. In recent seasons its grass-roots approach has extended to commissioning too, by inviting its audiences to contribute to the People’s Commissioning Fund. The proceeds are put toward commissioning
...BANG ON A CAN Turns 20 Years Old!
For Immediate Release February 5, 2007
For more information and media requests, contact Allegra McBane at Bang on a Can (718) 852-7755 or allegra@bangonacan.org.
BANG ON A CAN Turns 20 Years Old!
“[Bang on a Can] has grown from an upstart, one-day marathon celebration of contemporary classical music into a veritable cottage industry.†–BillboardMagazine
The New York music collective, Bang on a Can, kicks off its 20th
...Collective Groove: Bang on a Can Turns 15
Long before they had a cutting-edge record label, and a sleek band-in-residence, and a yearly mega-concert to tie it all together, composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang had a question: Why did their friends who followed the latest trends in the worlds of visual art, dance, or theater seem so uninterested in contemporary music? Maybe they just needed a point of entry. After all, the New York music scene in the mid-80s was starkly divided between downtown experimentalists and upto
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