{"id":8740,"date":"2012-12-10T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?page_id=8740"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:26:51","slug":"at-the-awards-david-lang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?page_id=8740","title":{"rendered":"At The Awards: David Lang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Lang&#8217;s early music, laced with elements of rock and minimalism, was at once bracing and controversial, heavily influenced by the Bang on a Can school he co-founded. As he tells critic Tim Page in Musical America&#8217;s tribute, however, &#8220;People should change as they get older, and I did.&#8221; Lang&#8217;s <em>the little match girl passion<\/em>, set not for rock band but for a rarified quartet of two sopranos, tenor, and bass-baritone, all of whom play small percussion instruments, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. A setting of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, it has been performed several hundred times internationally and also has been staged and choreographed. He made his New York City Ballet debut with plainspoken in 2010. Among numerous commissions, his new theater work, whisper opera, will receive its premiere in Chicago early next year by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/features\/?fid=185&amp;fyear=2013\">Read Tim Page&#8217;s tribute to David Lang<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Musical America&#8217;s Edna Landau, left,<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>interviews David Lang, 2013 Composer of the Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/om-mGmMUeHI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>2013 Composer of the Year David Lang<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>accepts his award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vAa3lNckhno\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8773\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80912-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"80912\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80912-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80912.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Composer of the Year David Lang; Kristin Lancino, G. Schirmer; Features Editor Sedgwick Clark<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8776\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80975-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"80975\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8776\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80975-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80975.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cia Toscanini, 2013 Composer of the Year David Lang, Ed Matthew, G. Schirmer<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8777\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80985-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"80985\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80985-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80985.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Composer of the Year David Lang, 2013 Musician of the Year Gustavo Dudamel<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8778\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80997-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"80997\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80997-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/80997.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Composer of the Year David Lang, 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year Wu Man<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?page_id=8740\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lang&#8217;s early music, laced with elements of rock and minimalism, was at once bracing and controversial, heavily influenced by the Bang on a Can school he co-founded. As he tells critic Tim Page in Musical America&#8217;s tribute, however, &#8220;People should change as they get older, and I did.&#8221; Lang&#8217;s the little match girl passion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29062,"menu_order":1015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19774,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8740\/revisions\/19774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}