David Lang follows his highly-acclaimed Cantaloupe debut "The Passing Measures" with this major new work. "Child" is a powerful meditation on childhood and memory. Sweet and simple on the surface, gentle musical fragments float by, leaving faint traces of darkness in their wake. The result is at once dramatic and personal, intensely introspective and piercingly beautiful. Written in five separate parts for some of Europe's finest groups, "Child" is recorded here by the Italian ensemble Sentierri Selvaggi.

Performed by Sentieri Selvaggi
Carlo Boccadoro - conductor, piano, brake drum
Paola Fre - flute, piccolo
Mirco Ghirardini - clarinet, bass clarinet
Andrea Rebaudengo - piano
Thomas Schrott - violin, brake drum
Antonello Leofreddi - viola
Marco Decimo - cello, brake drum
Andrea Dulbecco - vibraphone, percussion
Filippo Del Corno - brake drum

Child
1. my very empty mouth
flute, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola, and cello
written for Ensemble Alternance (Paris)

2. sweet air
flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello
written for Sentieri Selvaggi (Milan), dedicated to Louis Andriessen

3. short fall
piccolo, piano, violin, and cello
written for the Pearls Before Swine Experience (Stockholm), dedicated to Lynn Garon

4. stick figure
clarinet, piano, percussion, cello, and two non-percussionists
written for Sentieri Selvaggi (Milan)

5. little eye
cello and four non-percussionists
written for Alter Ego (Rome)

Produced by Carlo Boccadoro and Filippo Del Corno
General Coordination: Andrea Minetto and Angelo Miotto
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Renato Campajola and Mario Bertodo at SMC Studios, Ivrea, Italy, December 2002 - January 2003. Special thanks to Marco Decimo

Thanks to Suzanne Bocanegra, Ike, Thea and Judah, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, Evan Ziporyn, and the people at Cantaloupe/Bang on a Can: Kenny, Ken, Philippa, Julia, Kelly, Franz. I would especially like to thank the people who helped commission, premiere, and perform these works - Kathy Nellens and Chester Music France, Lynn Garon, Jean-Luc Menet and Ensemble Alternance, George Kentros and Pearls Before Swine Experience, Enzo Restagno and teh Settembre Musica Festival, Mauro Cardi and Nuova Consonanza, Ensemble Alter Ego, Susan Marshall, Gayle Morgan and the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Most of all I want to thank Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno, Angelo Miotto, and the musicians of Sentieri Selvaggi, who are great collaborators and great friends.

Child is published by Red Poppy, Ltd. (ASCAP).

Art direction and design: Greenberg Kingsley/NYC

Cantaloupe Music
Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson, and Julia Wolfe
Label Manager: Ken Thomson
Retail Manager: Franz Nicolay
Publicity: Aleba Gartner Associates, NYC

Cantaloupe thanks:
Mark Kingsley, Carla Leighton, Adam Wolfensohn, Bang on a Can, Julia Fishkin, Philippa Thompson, and Kelly Buwalda.

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