David Lang darker
Steven Schick conducts Renga
Sunday, September 21, 6:00-7:00pm
Carlsbad Village Theatre
Festival passes: $95
Single tickets: $20
The Festival closes with Steven Schick conducting Renga in the US premiere of David Lang’s “darker,” an hour-long work for 12 solo strings presented as an installation with a newly commissioned video.
Program:
David Lang (b. 1957) darker (2010, US premiere)
David Lang website
Renga website
David Lang
“Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master.” -The New Yorker
Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms. A Pulitzer Prize winner, a co-founder of Bang on a Can and the recipient of Carnegie Hall’s Debs Composer’s Chair for 2013-2014, Lang is one of America’s most performed composers. David Lang’s residency at the Carlsbad Music Festival includes 3 US premieres.
Steven Schick
“brilliant” -The New York Times
Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For forty years he has championed contemporary music by commissioning or premiering more than one hundred-fifty new works. He was the founding percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars (1992-2002) and served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève (2000-2005). Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, Ored fish blue fish.O Currently he is Music Director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and Artistic Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In 2012 he became the first Artist-in-Residence with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Schick founded and is currently Artistic Director of ORoots and Rhizomes,O a summer course on contemporary percussion music held at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He maintains a lively schedule of guest conducting including appearances in this season with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Nova Chamber Ensemble and the Asko/Schsnberg Ensemble. Schick will be music director of the 2015 Ojai Festival. Among his acclaimed publications are a book, OThe Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams,O and numerous recordings of contemporary percussion music including a 3 CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis (Mode). Mode released a companion recording on DVD of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen in September of 2014. Steven Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego.
Renga
Renga is a new ensemble of friends and colleagues from UC San Diego, the San Diego Symphony and beyond. Led by Artistic Directors Kate Hatmaker and Steven Schick, Renga unites the most recent and provocative contemporary music with established classical repertoire in settings ranging from solos and small ensembles to full chamber orchestra. Taking its name from a thousand-year-old Japanese tradition of “shared writing,” Renga seeks to create a progressive forum of shared artistic vision, community outreach, and reflection on the impact of art on our lives.
David Lang’s “pain changes” featuring Shara Worden:
