David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion

MUSIC
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2019
12:30 & 3:30 PM

The Crossing
The Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan

$65; $1 accompanying children aged 6-16
https://rsecure.metmuseum.org/event/ticket/514899

The Little Match Girl Passion is the great choral work that was the breakout piece that transformed David Lang from a very good composer to one of the greats of his (OK, his and my) generation.  It sounds at least as wonderful now — haunting, moving, seemingly spare but not really — as it did when it blew everybody away more than a decade ago.  The Crossing choir will do it full justice.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I am such a happy subject of Elsa la Reina del Chicharron (Broadway & Academy Street branch) that I can't dream of sending you elsewhere.