David Lang
About the artist
David Lang (born 8 January 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987. His first recognition came from the BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards in 1980 and 1981. He was a major contributor to the string quartet music, performed by Kronos Quartet, in the film Requiem for a Dream (2000). In 1999 he collaborated with composers Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon
Top songs
- Light Moving
- this was written by hand
- Amjad Sleeping Panorama
- I lie
- Just (After Song of Songs)
- Increase
- Simple Song #3
- Death Speaks: No. 1. You will return
- Gravity
- The Woodmans - Music From The Film: Titles
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- Wed
- Cheating, Lying, Stealing
- David Lang: World To Come IV
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Come, Daughter
- Simple Song #3 - From "Youth"
- Sweet Air
- 1/2 (arr. D. Lang)
- How to Pray
- My Very Empty Mouth
- Face So Pale
- the Little Match Girl Passion: It Was Terribly Cold
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Dearest Heart
- Little Eye
- Depart
- The Little Match Girl Passion (Version for 4 Voices, Percussion & Choir): In the dawn of morning
- the Little Match Girl Passion: In an Old Apron
- Short Fall
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Penance and Remorse
- The Passing Measures
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Lights Were Shining
- Death Speaks: No. 4. Pain changes
- Death Speaks: No. 2. I hear you
- World To Come, Pt. 4
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Patience, Patience!
- Again (After Ecclesiastes)
- the Little Match Girl Passion: When It Is Time for Me to Go
- Men
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Have Mercy, My God
- the Little Match Girl Passion: Ah! Perhaps
- Death Speaks: No. 1, You Will Return
- Evening morning day
- the Little Match Girl Passion: She Lighted Another Match
- the Little Match Girl Passion: We Sit and Cry
- The National Anthems: our common fate
- the Little Match Girl Passion: In the Dawn of Morning
- Death Speaks: No. 5. I am walking
- Death Speaks: No. 3. Mist is rising
- the Little Match Girl Passion: From the Sixth Hour
- the Little Match Girl Passion: She Again Rubbed a Match
- Child: I. My Very Empty Mouth
- Press Release
- For Love Is Strong
- Stick Figure
- Simple Song #3 (From "Youth")
- Wood Symphony (Bonus track)
- Pierced
- The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Opening
- Memory Pieces: III. Wed
- The National Anthems: our land with peace
- love fail: he was and she was
- Shelter: Before I Enter
- love fail: dureth
- Unused Swan
- love fail: the wood and the vine
- when we were children
- love fail: A Different Man
- Mystery Sonatas: No. 5, After Sorrow
- love fail: Head, Heart
- love fail: Right and Wrong
- Heroin (arr. D. Lang for voice and cello)
- love fail: you will love me
- Forced March
- Child: IV. Sweet Air
- Spartan Arcs
- No. 5. I am walking
- World to Come
- Intro from the composer
- Memory Pieces: I. cage
- Girl with Mountain
- love fail: Forbidden Subjects
- prisoner of the state: I was a woman
- love fail: as love grows stronger
- Penance And Remorse
- The Writings: No. 1, Again (After Ecclesiastes)
- Memory Pieces: Memory Pieces: III. Wed
- Shelter: Is the Wind
- love fail: The Outing
- The Woodmans - Music From The Film: Pot Melody
- love fail: i live in pain
- The Little Match Girl Passion (Version for 4 Voices, Percussion & Choir): From the sixth hour
- Alleluia Amen: II. amen
- No. 1. You will return
- Child: II. Stick Figure
- Child: V. Little Eye
- Child: III. Short Fall
- Child: II. Sweet Air
- Memory Pieces: II. spartan arcs
- Writing on Water
- love fail: break #3 (if I have to drown)
- love fail: mild, light
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