David Lang (b. Los Angeles, California, 1957) is an American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987. This article is about the largest city in California. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer. ... Michael Gordon (born 20 July 1956) is an American classical composer and a co-founder of Bang on a Can with Julia Wolfe and David Lang. ... Bang on a Can is a musical organization based in New York City which was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. ...

He can be seen as a composer who challenges the status quo. He sometimes gives his concert pieces strange, and even iconoclastic titles such as Eating Living Monkeys (1985) and Bonehead (1990). His music can be in turn: comic, abrasive, soothing and it usually retains elements of conceptualism. It is also informed by modernism, minimalism, and rock -- and can perhaps be best described by the term post-minimalism. Conceptual art, sometimes called idea art, is art in which the ideas embodied by a piece are more central to the work than the means used to create it. ... Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that Modernist project be merged into this article or section. ... Minimalist music is a genre of post-1960s classical music and experimental music which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Postminimalism is a term utilised in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop upon the work of Minimalism. ...

He was a major contributor to the string quartet music, performed by Kronos Quartet, in the film Requiem for a Dream (2000). The Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. ... Jump to: navigation, search Requiem for a Dream is a novel written by Hubert Selby, Jr. ...

Lang holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Yale University (Ph.D., 1989). His teachers have included Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick. Jump to: navigation, search For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Old Cap or Old Capitol Building, Iowas first state capitol building and a university landmark. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jacob Druckman (June 26, 1928 - May 24, 1996) was an American composer born in Philadelphia. ... Hans Werner Henze (born July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh, Westphalia, Germany) is a composer. ...

Lang's music has been released on the Argo/Decca, BMG, Cantaloupe Music, Chandos, CRI, Point, and Sony Classical labels. His scores are published by Red Poppy Music (available from G. Schirmer, Inc.) Cantaloupe Music is a record label founded in March 2001 created by the founders of Bang on a Can for music between the cracks, those founders being composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, and Bang on a Can Managing Director Kenny Savelson. ...

Film

• New York Composers: Searching for a New Music (1997). Directed by Michael Blackwood. Produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, in association with Westdeutscher Rundfunk. New York, New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.

External links

• David Lang works page from G. Schirmer, Inc. site

Listening

• Art of the States: David Lang