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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.
Lang is a Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music, and is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can. His music is published by Red Poppy Music and G. Ricordi & Co., New York (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by the Universal Music Publishing Group.
Mar 18, 2022 · Singapore Bible College lecturer David Lang, whose three children were struck with a rare genetic disorder called Niemann-Pick Disease Type C. The disease causes the patient's physical and intellectual functions to deteriorate over time.
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.
Aug 6, 2018 · His two surviving children, Justina, 27, and Titus, 21, both have Niemann-Pick Disease Type C, a rare and fatal genetic disorder that has caused their intellectual and physical faculties to weaken. There is currently no cure for it, and there are only about 500 diagnosed cases worldwide.
Mr David Lang competed his Bachelor of Theology at the Singapore Bible College in 1988 and upon graduation served as a pastor for 3 years in Foochow Methodist Church.
Bang on a Can co-founder and co-artistic director David Lang: “With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion (one of the most original and moving scores of recent years), Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master.”.
Jun 7, 2019 · Last night Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic gave the World Premiere performance of David Lang’s “prisoner of the state” — a fully staged reimagi...
May 20, 2014 · David Lang is one of the most thoughtful composers working today. His music is consistently probing, emotionally urgent, strange, and beautiful. It is also getting simpler as the years roll on—a sign that the mind behind it is undergoing a kind of ritualistic purification.
Jan 25, 2017 · January 25, 2017 • Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang has been a Philip Glass fan since high school. But it was a performance of the opera Satyagraha triggered a genuine epiphany ...
