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	American Composers Orchestra - November 3, 2002, "A Program of Psalms" Program Notes
		Lang has been honored with the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		David Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, and Composer in residence at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
		Lang has studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze and Martin Bresnick, and his work is recorded on the Sony Classical, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, CRI and Cantaloupe labels.
	www.americancomposers.org /notes20021103.htm (2940 words)

	LANG: The So-Called Laws of Nature (Part 3)
		David Lang—the prolific, enthusiastic, and complicated composer—embodies the restless spirit of invention.
		Lang's catalogue is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and funky.
		Lang has been honored with the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with the New York Philharmonic, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.newmusicbox.org /webcasts/so/lang2.nmbx (583 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Composer and Bang On A Can man David Lang follows his highly-acclaimed Cantaloupe Records debut, The Passing Measures, with a major new work for seven musicians.
		Lang: When you are a composer you get asked to write a lot of 10-20 minute pieces; that’s sort of what the currency is. But if you have more than that to say, then you have to figure out how to do that.
		Composers are raised to think of themselves as loner-maverick-rebel-geniuses, who live in a tower and are kissed by the Muse – and the Muse kisses them alone.
	www.iclassics.com /featureArticle?contentId=852 (1525 words)

	Lang piece opens with a blow to the head / Composer asks: 'Are You Experienced?'
		Composer David Lang's jumpy, funny and ultimately very beautiful chamber piece of the same name tracks a different route to altered consciousness: a quick blow to the side of the head.
		Completed in 1989, "Are You Experienced?" remains one of Lang's most distinctive and vivid works, and it was the high point of a punchy little concert of the composer's music presented Monday night in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.
		If "Are You Experienced?" found Lang at his peak, the rest of the evening, devoted to more recent chamber works, showcased Lang's chief strength and weakness as a composer.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/29/DDGMF4JO4P1.DTL&type=printable (577 words)

	1997-98 Program Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		David Lang, composer, has been commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Singers, and the American Composers Orchestra.
		David Lang holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, receiving his doctorate from the Yale School of Music in 1989.
		In the recent past when a composer wished to suggest a program or narrative for a composition but not reveal the contents of the program in the title, the symbol of three stars might be used instead.
	www.k-c-p.com /dacapo/html/1997-98_program_notes.htm (4174 words)

	All Things Strings: Bang on a Can
		Young composers with a passion for radical experimentation, they shared a growing frustration with the lack of a niche—any niche—in which to thrive.
		Composer Steve Reich, conductor Brad Lubman, and bassist Joseph Carver will join BOAC and the All-Stars as this year's faculty at an Institute that will include traditional elements like chamber music coaching, but will be steeped in such adventurous teaching approaches as Mark Stewart's instrument-building workshop, and the Balinese gamelan that Evan Ziporyn will offer.
		"Composers and performers don't talk!" complains Wolfe, and a vital aspect of the Institute will be talking about music, and even "talking about how to talk about music," adds Gordon, noting the typical breakdown in language that occurs when an avant-garde composer tries to describe what she does for a living.
	www.stringsmagazine.com /issues/strings102/encore.html (666 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		DAVID LANG is one of the most gifted of the younger generation of New York composers.
		Lang approaches the craft of composition with an urban sensibility and his distinct sound fuses the tradition of classical music with urban aggressiveness, where melodies are accompanied by noise and subtle harmonies are pulled apart by pounding rhythms.
		A fair share of established composers are represented, with more to come as the site moves out of the trial phase and major publishers upload more of their materials.
	www.sequenza21.com /101402.html (2496 words)

	USOperaWeb Interview - Carey Perloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		David and Mac were pals of Carey's in New York, although the two had never met before they began the current collaboration.
		But David wasn't at all hesitant to tackle this and he wrote a score for a band of five that was brilliant.
		David Harrington has had an enormous impact on this piece, encouraging David Lang to write a score that was more than just accompaniment and to use the members as soloists as well.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2002/jan/perloff.htm (3194 words)

	David Lang
		His distinct sound fuses the tradition of classical music with urban aggressiveness, where melodies are accompanied by noise and subtle harmonies are pulled apart by pounding rhythms.
		David Lang's awards include the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with the New York Philharmonic, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
		David Lang's music is published by Red Poppy (ASCAP) and distributed by G. Schirmer, Inc.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Lang.shtml (222 words)

	Julia Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer.
		As a composer associated with the downtown style of new music she is not averse to drawing on rock and minimalism as primary influences.
		Her music, however, shows a good deal more rhythmic complexity than is generally found in these genres, hence her music can properly be considered and described as postminimalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Wolfe (474 words)

	E-Flux : The Lost Meeting - (2005-06-15)
		Composer David Lang is a founder and artistic director of New York's
		Composer David Lang will conduct Relache and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia performing “No Pain,” (words by William Penn), a piece he created as part of "The Lost Meeting" collaboration.
		Lang has created a score as a round to be performed by musicians of all levels.
	www.e-flux.com /displayshow.php?file=message_1118832787.txt (900 words)

	redpoppymusic_DAVID LANG
		David Lang--the prolific, enthusiastic and complicated composer--embodies the restless spirit of invention.
		Musically adventurous yet deeply versed in the classical tradition, Lang is constantly in search of new musical forms and determined to make a music that resists categorization.
		Lang's extensive catalogue includes opera, orchestra, chamber and solo works, which are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling and funky.
	www.redpoppymusic.com /d/bio.html (320 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		Little did Lang realize that this modest ambition would lead to “psalms without words,” a monumental musical project whose first fruits will have their world premiere on Jan. 16.
		Lang, whose 46th birthday falls just before the concert, is sitting comfortably in the Soho loft he shares with his wife and three children, shortly after New Year’s Day.
		Lang, in deference to that belief, has tried “to honor all those divisions” in his composition.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=7235 (879 words)

	Composers, Inc: Lee Ettelson Composer's Award
		All composers who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States are eligible to enter.
		Composers, Inc. is not liable for accidental loss or damage to materials.
		Composers, Inc. is supported in part by the BMI Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and Bernard Osher Foundation.
	www.composersinc.org /ettelson.html (330 words)

	Cantaloupe Music: So Percussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This self-titled debut CD recording from these young mavericks of the percussion world features the recording premieres of two ground-breaking works by David Lang and Evan Ziporyn; with a unique combination of homemade instruments and those more traditionally found in the classical, rock, and world music scenes.
		David Lang's "so-called laws of nature," written for So Percussion, is simultaneously meditative and climactic - brought to life by So, who chose their own instruments, from giant pipes to flower pots.
		With a breadth extending to both established and emerging composers, So's continuing commissioning project has already produced many new works, including David Lang's groundbreaking The So-Called Laws of Nature, premiered and recorded in the 2002-2003 season.
	www.cantaloupemusic.com /CA21022.html (1608 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: David Lang
		Composer David Lang's new album is a most unusual concerto for bass clarinet, chorus and orchestra that explores mortality, time, and the function of music.
		Impossible Quiet - David Lang's concept: the amplification of a beautiful, slow, quiet struggle.
		Players - To realize The Passing Measures, Lang had to convince some of the world's greatest classical musicians to ignore much of their own hard-earned virtuosity.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/davidlang.html (136 words)

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		Much as today's jazz artists are expanding their language by incorporating seemingly disparate elements, similarly adventurous spirits in the classical world are bringing in concepts that might seem out of context on first pass.
		David Lang has been involved with Cantaloupe Music, Bang on a Can’s label, for more than a decade, wearing a multitude of hats.
		As a composer his output has been relatively small, but in its postmodern blending of ambient music, minimalism, electronica, jazz, and more, Lang has fashioned music that manages to be stark and moody, yet equally strangely beautiful.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/review_print.php?id=20030 (544 words)

	BEHINDtheBEAT Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Film composer Mason Daring's musical career started after he traded classical trumpet for guitar while at college and law school.
		Jens Joneleit is a modern composer who explores a range of moods and human expressions in avant-garde musical settings.
		In "Saints," he interprets works from experimental composers, soloists, and his own songbook to create a solo guitar CD that has a sparse and alluring appeal.
	www.behindthebeat.net /genre.asp?g=198&ar=221 (1624 words)

	Da Capo Chamber Players, The Knitting Factory, New York City, April 25, 2004 (BH)
		Bermel, like many of the composers on this program, is clearly fascinated by jazz, and this work benefited from its interpreters’ clearly feeling the same.
		David DeSantis’ Make it Stop, an entertaining exercise in obsessive figures for the clarinet set against an equally intense piano part, also showed Stoops and McMillen at their riveting best in the work’s pulsing colors.
		According to Lang, Druckman found Lang’s work lacking in formality, so this was an attempt, perhaps with a little jesting, to redress with something more formal.
	www.blairmcmillen.com /DaCapo_review.html (634 words)

	CWF - Kronos Quartet
		Wellman and Lang were creating a musical adaptation of the Ambrose Bierce short story, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field.
		Lang suggested that A.C.T. collaborate once again with the quartet: and the two (A.C.T. and Kronos) were eager to develop another project together, particularly one in which the musicians could be involved from the outset.
		The exploration of sounds, textures, and rhythms of musics from around the world nourishes and energizes its experimentation with and commitment to the musical "present" in a quest to discover (and often recover) music new to audiences as well as to the instruments of the string quartet.
	www.creativeworkfund.org /pages/bios/kronos_quartet.html (1377 words)

	Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art \| Press Releases
		Composers and co-artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe founded Bang on a Can in 1987.
		Composer-in-residence at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, David Lang’s work has been commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Singers, and the American Composers Orchestra.
		Lang’s awards include the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with the New York Philharmonic, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.massmoca.org /press_releases/06_2004/06_24_04.html (971 words)

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		Lang's distinct sound fuses the tradition of classical music with urban aggressiveness, where melodies are accompanied by noise and subtle harmonies are pulled apart by pounding rhythms.
		Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, an organization dedicated to adventurous new music, with presentations in New York and around the world.
		His awards include the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with the New York Philharmonic, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.bangonacan.org /adsdavid.html (237 words)

	CD Spotlight. Hypnotic surfaces - David Lang's 'Child', reviewed by Ron Bierman. '... interesting melodic turns and ...
		He is a most undogmatic composer with a great appreciation of musical history.
		It's just that I suspect that minimalism, for all its often popular appeal, will someday be considered a quaint dead end, all too related in its intellectual origins to the very non-natural serialism that often seems its direct opposite.
		David Lang: Child - a powerful meditation for seven players on childhood and memory.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/06/child2.htm (322 words)

	Cantaloupe Music: Bang on a Can Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The composer really believes he or she is exemplary in this or that area.
		Annie Gosfield (born 1960, in Philadelphia) is a composer, keyboardist, and improviser based in New York City.
		Vierk was commissioned by the Lincoln Center Festival to compose "Silversword" for the Reigakusha Ensemble of Tokyo, and by the Barbican Center to compose "River Beneath the River" for the Kronos Quartet, which has played it many times.
	www.cantaloupemusic.com /CA21010.html (5116 words)

	USOperaWeb Interview - Carey Perloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Music critic Mark Swed wrote of composer David Lang's work, "[t]here is no name yet for this kind of music." Lang wears no ready-made label; about the only definition that can be applied to his music is that it defies definition.
		David's first opera, Modern Painters, had its premiere in Santa Fe in 1995.
		David's second opera, The Carbon Copy Building, was a collaboration with his colleagues at Bang on a Can, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, and cartoonist Ben Katchor.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2002/jan/lang.htm (3962 words)

	CNM 2001-02 Concert Information, School of Music, The University of Iowa
		He was a Fulbright Fellow in Paris, composing computer music at Boulez's IRCAM (1979-80), and at Yale University (1980-82) he studied with composers Earle Brown, Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands, and Roger Reynolds; during this time he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York City.
		Nuit was composed as a musical diary, without any pre-compositional plan, in a period between April and October 1999.Since I work primarily with abstractions (colors), I had to wait until these abstractions assumed the role of an object, and then I assembled the form.
		He also composed music for the theater in 1990 when he was commissioned by the Austrian National Radio and the Forum Stadtpark Graz to write music for the theater play "Mein Schrank riecht nach Tier," by W. Grond and L. Cejpec.
	www.uiowa.edu /~cnm/36.011030c.html (4822 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		David Lang, founder of famed Bang on a Can Festival, is featured in February 2 New Music New Haven concert
		Lang is visiting composition professor this spring at the Yale School of Music.
		Born in Los Angeles in 1957, David Lang holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and received the D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music in 1989.
	www.yale.edu /music/concerts/News/06.02.02.html (279 words)

	Australian Chamber Orchestra/Bang on a Can residency returns alumni to UI
		Lang, Gordon and Wolfe founded Bang on a Can in the late 1980s as a renegade New York street festival, presented in locations and with attitudes that could not be mistaken for the conventional concert setting and decorum.
		Eventually, the festival was invited to invade the bastion of New York culture, Lincoln Center, and it brought its attitude with it.
		The Bang on a Can All-Stars ensemble eventually brought together Lang, a graduate of the UI School of Music, with virtuoso percussionist Steven Shick, who was for several years a mainstay of the UI Center for New Music before taking his career to Europe.
	itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu /uns-archives/2000/march/0317aussie.html (914 words)

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