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Francesco Dillon at October Revolution Of Jazz & Contemporary Music Festival at Fringearts
Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on September 20, 2018
Where
Fringearts
October Revolution Of Jazz & Contemporary Music Festival
140 N Christopher Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia, PA
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When
Sun, October 7, 2018
2:00 pm
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About
Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. One of America’s most performed composers, Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms. Many of his works resemble each other only in the fierce intelligence and clarity of vision that inform their structures. His catalogue is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling and very emotionally direct. Lang is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, Musical America’s Composer of the Year, Carnegie Hall’s Debs Composer’s Chair, the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “World To Come” is a composition for voice and solo cello in combination with prerecorded cellos, written in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001....