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when we were children — a setting of a text from Saint Paul
Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, David Lang’s the little match girl passion has quickly joined the repertoire as a chamber work, a staged production, a work for full chorus, and a featured event on Christmas and Easter concerts around the world…
continue readingpercussion quartet concerto 1+picc.2.2.1+cbn/3.2.2.1/3perc.timp.hp.pno/strings
Barbican Centre and Los Angeles Philharmonic
solo soprano, solo cello, 1 perc, strings
Cello Biennale Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sinfonietta
toy piano and metal pipes; for one player - who may be either a toy pianist or a percussionist
commissioned for recording by Margaret Leng Tan
percussion quartet concerto 2(1pic).2.2(1bcl).2(1cbn)/4.3.2(1btbn).1/3perc.timp/hp.pno/str
Barbican Centre and Los Angeles Philharmonic
A Haunting Tale, Perfect for Christmas
The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met
Tina Fineberg for The New York Times
Members of the Crossing, a choir of 24, at the Metropolitan Museum.
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published: December 24, 2012
At holiday time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art draws countless visitors to its Medieval Sculpture Garden to see the splendidChristmas tree and 18th-century Neapolitan crèche…
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David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web
By WILLIAM ROBIN, August 2, 2013
Opera and technology have long had an uneasy relationship. The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.
Historically, though, opera tended to avoid confronting the technological head-on…
continue readingSince winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, David Lang’s the little match girl passionhas quickly joined the repertoire as a chamber work, a staged production, a work for full chorus, and a featured event on Christmas and Easter concerts around the world.
This season over 50 performances of the little match girl passion are being given by ensembles throughout North America, Europe and Australia, including the return of Donald Nally’s The Crossing to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art…
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commissioned by The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor, with the support of the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music.
SATB + amplified sextet
Bang on a Can; Stanford Live; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Helsinki Festival and Helsinki Chamber Choir; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois; with generous support from Robert and Maria A. Skirnick, Stephen Block, Leslie Lassiter, Raulee Marcus, Susan and George Reardon, Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, and Abby Sher.