Lang, D.: Pierced / Heroin / Cheating, Lying, Stealing / How To Pray / Wed - CD

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<p>"One of the things I like about this disc is that all the pieces try to take classical music someplace it doesn't usually go," declares David Lang, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who co-founded the experimental classical music festival Bang on a Can. "There is no name yet for this kind of music," wrote Mark Swed of <i>The Los Angeles</i> <i>Times</i>, but audiences everywhere hear and love it; from New York to Tokyo, BBC Proms to Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, Strasbourg Festival to Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. <i>Pierced </i>is an unconventional concerto, jazzy and ominous; <i>Heroin</i> resets Lou Reed's &lsquo;dangerous' Velvet Underground song; <i>Cheating, Lying,</i> <i>Stealing </i>is a calling card for the Bang on a Can All-Stars; the trance-inducing <i>Wed </i>commemorates the memory of visual artist Kate Ericson.</p>