The Consolation of Apollo - Kile Smith (World Premiere)
The Little Match Girl Passion - David Lang
Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 8pm
Saturday, October 11, 2014 @ 8pm
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Dr.
Princeton, NJ 08540
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.