David Lang, who you will recall won this year’s Pulitzer with his piece The Little Match Girl Passion, will be submitting himself to the hard-hitting S21 interview next week. I’ll be asking him what he plans to do about the financial meltdown, the war in Iraq, and whether he stands by his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Or something–I haven’t written the questions yet.
In the meantime, those of you who live in New York may want to know that Wordless Music is presenting a concert of Lang’s music next Wednesday, November 5th, at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York). Doors at 7:00, show starts at 7:30. The show will consist of the American premiere of his piece Pierced with the Real Quiet. Special guests include the Flux Quartet and Theo Blackmann singing Lang’s version of Lou Reed¹s Velvet Underground song “Heroin.” Both pieces appear on Lang’s new Naxos disc, which I’ve been listening to a lot and recommend.
Someone is sounding like he is part of the “Gotcha Media”.
Maybe they were really far-seeing, and it’s really “Obang on a McCan”…
Ask him if “Bang on a Can” really means “Sex on a Toilet.”
(Wa, ha, ha.)