#3404: David Lang's "love fail"
Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and one of the three founders of Bang on a Can, David Lang, along with the women of vocal quartet Anonymous 4 join us to preview the work Lang had just written for the group, “love fail.” Like his “Little Match Girl Passion,” the work centers on the sound of four voices and percussion. But in the piece, “love fail,” these components are the centerpiece of a multi-media extravaganza, including sound design, lighting design, projections and video, along with clothing and sets.
Using ancient and modern texts, including medieval courtly love narratives, excerpts from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and other sources, Lang strips away the dated references to dragons and the like, to retell a universal love story, both found and unfulfilled. For this New Sounds, Lang explains where the work has come from and where it is headed. Listen to Anonymous 4 perform excerpts from the work.
PROGRAM #3404, love fail, with David Lang and A4 (First aired on 12/06/2012)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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David Lang, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
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The Little Match Girl Passion |
It was terribly cold, excerpt [1:00] |
Harmonia Mundi 807496 |
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David Lang/ Anonymous 4 |
Rehearsal recording |
love fail: You Will Love Me [2:37] |
This performance not commercially available. |
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David Lang/ Anonymous 4 |
Live, WNYC Dec. 6, 2012 |
love fail: He was She was [8:30] |
This performance not commercially available. |
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RIAS Chamber Chorus, |
Lost Objects |
M Gordon/D Lang/J Wolfe: Lost Objects - We Were Enveloped [7:27] |
Teldec 84107 |
