Music

"The Arts and Sciences used to share much of the same intellectual space. Only recently have they diverged to the degree that they seem diametrically opposed. The Exchange is our attempt to rekindle some of the dialogue that occurred between the two fields."

"Lillian Pierce vividly remembers a moment when she was 4 years old, waiting in her family’s station wagon for her older brother and sister to get out of school, magnolia trees forming pink and white arches overhead. Her mother was sitting in the driver’s seat, writing sequences of numbers in blue ink, balancing her checkbook. Pierce was mesmerized."

Artist-in-Residence David Lang has established himself as a master of powerful, large-scale public music through ambitious projects like “the public domain,” for 1,000 voices at Lincoln Center, and “symphony for a broken orchestra,” for hundreds of...

Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times reviews Artist-in-Residence David Lang's "The Whisper Opera," which opened at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center last week. Tommasini writes, "Mr. Lang’s aim in this 65-minute piece, he explains in a program note, was...

Former Artist-in-Residence Sebastian Currier has been recognized by classical music critics and writers at the New York Times for his recent work "Re-Formation," which was written on commission from the Minnesota Orchestra in celebration of the...

Artist-in-Residence David Lang's "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra," which debuted Sunday, December 3, at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia, was written as part of a project of the same name to repair more than 1,000 damaged instruments that had...

Artist-in-Residence David Lang discussed the power of political music and what makes it successful with Joshua Barone of the New York Times, saying, "It’s very hard to have a kind of music that changes someone’s mind without really noticing it. A...

In response to issues with funding for a Philadelphia school system's music program, Artist-in-Residence David Lang has been commissioned by Temple University's art gallery to create "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra," a symphony comprised...

W. Anthony Sheppard, Member in the School of Historical Studies (2011–12), has received the H. Colin Slim Award for his article “Puccini and the Music Boxes,” which appeared in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association in spring 2015.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, has announced the performers for the 2016­–17 Edward T. Cone Concert Series. Titled “The Pattern Makers,” Lang’s first season as Artist-in-Residence...