loud love songs (2004) 15'
Commissioner: the Eos Orchestra for Evelyn Glennie
First Performer: 8 April 2004, Ethical Culture Society, NYC; Jonathan Sheffer, conductor
Instrumentation: solo perc,1,2,2,2/2111/timp,3perc,pf/str
Special Features:
Program note:
''loud love songs'' is about love, and about the struggle for love. My goal was to make an overtly emotional work out of very unlikely materials, focusing on percussion instruments that have traditionally been found only in the background of classical music. My concerto brings these instruments to the foreground and highlights the struggle of the soloist to breathe life into them. In this way it is as much a piece of theater as a piece of music.
—David Lang
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