A co-founder of the Bang on a Can ensemble, David Lang has often been categorized as a post-minimalist composer, but his style is deeper and more complex than that term might suggest. In addition to broadening minimalist techniques, he has employed a variety of disparate elements in his compositions, including rock and Bachian compositional forms. Lang won a Pulitzer Prize for his choral composition The Little Match Stick Girl Passion (2007), a work formally modeled on Bach's St. Matthew Passion but containing highly idiosyncratic original material. An Academy Award nomination...