Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights. Many Christmas standards were not written by ...

The Pulitzer-winning composer David Lang wasn’t always a revered figure of the city’s new-music scene. He started off like every other musician, unknown and rejected, and that prepared him for his ...

In “Youth,” Michael Caine plays a world renowned composer reflecting upon his past and his future while vacationing in the Swiss Alps. David Lang, himself a world renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Conductor Donald Nally leads The Crossing in a rehearsal of David Lang's''poor hymnal,'' at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey ...

Throughout his long and varied career, conductor Robert Geary has led hundreds of works, from early music to world premieres. But he says David Lang’s latest piece is something fairly new. The ...

Throughout Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth,” composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) is asked to conduct a performance of his most famous work, “Simple Song #3.” It’s a deeply personal work that the ...

David Lang: 'I spend a fair amount of time reading and trying to understand my own religion’s basic texts' Music and religion are intertwined, not just because of their shared history but because they ...

This week at BAM, the busy composer David Lang—best known as the founder of the Bang on a Can collective—premieres Amelia, a furiously athletic pointe-driven work choreographed by Édouard Lock, with ...

Paolo Sorrentino's film "Youth" tells the story of composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) and the famous song he must come to terms with when he's offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to perform it ...

Throughout his long and varied career, conductor Robert Geary has led hundreds of works, from early music to world premieres. But he says David Lang’s latest piece is something fairly new. The ...