The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced that composers David Lang and Alvin Singleton will be among the nine new members inducted during its annual award ceremony to be held in May.
Other new inductees include American visual artists Robert Adams, Ann Hamilton and Bill Jensen--along with American writers Wendell Berry, Ha Jin, Denis Johnson and Tobias Wolff.
Lang currently holds Carnegie Hall's Debs Composer's Chair for 2013-14, and was named Musical America's 2013 Composer of the Year. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music for the little match girl passion.
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