The Consolation of Apollo - Kile Smith
The Little Match Girl Passion - David Lang
Saturday, January 3, 2015 @ 8PM
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
David Lang's minimalist passion, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, has become a Crossing signature work - immediate, stark, beautiful, it contemplates the value of recognizing the suffering of others. Lang's work is so iconic, we commissioned a companion piece from Kile Smith whose libretto offers an unlikely, brilliant pairing: Boethius’ sixth-century musings on man and beast, and transcripts of the historic Christmas Eve 1968 broadcast of Apollo 8 astronauts reading Genesis. Smith considers in music what we are and what we can be, how the earthbound free their imagination in flight.
with generous support from Eric Owens and the Edward T. Cohen Concert Series at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study.