Lang, D.: Pierced / Heroin / Cheating, Lying, Stealing / How To Pray / Wed

Featuring

Gil Rose
David Cossin
Felix Fan
Andrew Russo
Theo Bleckmann
Evan Ziporyn

Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Real Quiet
David Lang
Lewis Allan Reed

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer David Lang aims to take classical music "someplace it doesn't usually go," often incorporating elements that challenge traditional forms.

Composer Biography

David Lang, the composer, was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work The Little Match Girl Passion.

Compositional Technique

In his concerto Pierced, David Lang presents two separate musical worlds—soloists and orchestra—that coexist without directly interacting, coloring the listener's perception.

Compositional Technique

In his piece Cheating, Lying, Stealing, David Lang intentionally created music based on unreliable repeats, patterns that lead nowhere, and twisted tunes to subvert the idea of a composer's "nobility."

Composition History

The piece Wed is part of David Lang's "Memory Pieces" series, written in memory of friends who have died, and this particular work commemorates conceptual artist Kate Ericson.

Composition History

David Lang's arrangement of Lou Reed's "Heroin" was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 2002, inspired by Lang's memory of the "danger" in early Velvet Underground music.

Performer Biography

Real Quiet is a three-man band—percussionist David Cossin, cellist Felix Fan, and pianist Andrew Russo—dedicated to performing hard-edge acoustic and electric music by leading contemporary composers.