Other Minds Programming ➔ David Lang & Aki Takahashi, heads and shoulders portrait, looking at musical score, San Francisco CA, (2000)

Still image


Identifier
IM.OM.FP.0006.009
Dates
2000-03-01/2000-03-31 | created
Work Type
Photographic print
Image Class
Composer & Performer Portraits
Image Series
OM06: Fago B&W Prints
Description
Composer David Lang and pianist Aki Takahashi (l to r) reviewing a musical score during a rehearsal for the 6th Other Minds Music Festival in San Francisco CA, in March of 2000. David Lang was born in Los Angeles in 1957 and is one of the co-founders of New York’s legendary new music festival, Bang on a Can. He studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick, and his works have been performed with some regularity around the world. Aki Takahashi is a Japanese pianist who has specialized in performing the works of contemporary avant-garde composers, including a number of compositions written especially for her by such luminaries as John Cage, Morton Feldman & Alvin Lucier. As part of OM 6, Takahashi performed Lang’s “Memory Pieces.”
Genres & Subjects
Group portraits--2000
Men
Women
Composers
Pianists
Rehearsals
Photo Credits
John Fago