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Composer David Lang all over Austin this spring
It’s a veritable David Lang mini-festival this spring with work by the contemporary composer presented by several different groups.
Tonight, in a free concert, the always-engaging UT Percussion Ensemble, led by Thomas Burritt, performs Lang’s “so called laws of nature,” Can’t make the concert in person? It’ll web cast live. See www.music.utexas.edu for info.
Lang’s referred to ‘so called,’ which is performed on a variety of invented percussion instruments ‘as close to becoming a scientist as I will ever get.’
Lang will be in Austin later this month when UT’s Dept. of Theatre and Dance present his chamber opera “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field,” based a short story by Ambrose Bierce, about southern farmer in the pre-Civil War south who purportedly vanished while walking across a field. The UT production runs April 23-May 2.
Then come May 7-9, five-time Grammy-nominated choir Conspirare will perform Lang’s haunting oratorio, ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ for which the composer received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. See www.conspirare.org.
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