unEarth (2023) 45'
soprano solo, men's chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra 3(picc).3(eh).2+bcl.2+cbn/4.3(C).2+btn.1/timp.4perc/gtr(steel).ebgtr.pno+eorg.hp/strings
New York Philharmonic
Works
Chorus/Vocal
love fail (the selected choruses) (2023) 28'
women's chorus
Paul Hillier
Her Story (2022) 40'
10 women's voices and orchestra 3(picc).3.3(bcl).3(cbn)/4.3(in c).2.btb.1/timp.4perc/egtr.ebgtr/pno.hp/strings
Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony
Letter from Abigail (2022) 20'
chorus + chamber ensemble SATB, 2 perc, piano, strings
Robert Baker Commissioning Fund for Sacred Music at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Fire in my mouth (2019) 48'
SSAA, girls choir, and orchestra 3.3.3.3/4.3.2.1.1/4perc.timp/hp.pf.egtr.ebass/strings
The New York Philharmonic; Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley; the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
a girl (2017) 4'
text in Yiddish, by an anonymous author
women's choir
The Choir of California Lutheran University
Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
Anthracite Fields (2014) 65'
SATB chorus, cl, egtr, perc, pno, vc, db
Anthracite Fields was commissioned through Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Additional support was made possible through the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia Alan Harler New Ventures Fund; the Presser Foundation; The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Philadelphia Music Project.
You breathe (2013) 7'
SATB + string quartet
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
love fail (2012) 60'
Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
love fail was co-commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa. Movement 4, 'the wood and the vine', was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at University of Denver, The University of California at Riverside, and the Santa Fe Concert Association in Santa FE, NM. Movement 10, 'I live in pain', in a different version, was originally written for “TheCrossing,” Donald Nally, conductor.