The Crossing
dal 22/12/2012 al 22/12/2012
Segnalato da
22/12/2012
The Crossing
Metropolitan Museum of Art - MET, New York
Little Match Girl Passion and other works
David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl Passion is hailed as "a modern masterpiece" by the New Yorker. This profound tale is based on a short story first published in December 1845 by Danish Poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. Little Match Girl Passion is the story of a poor girl's hopes, dreams, and heavenly visions as she desperately struggles to keep warm on a cold New Year's Eve night. The Crossing is an award winning twenty-four-member professional chamber choir and one of the only professional choirs in the world dedicated to singing new and recently composed works exclusively. They are the recipients of the 2009 and 2011 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. Also on the holiday-themed program: James MacMillan's Alpha and Omega (And I Saw a New Heaven), Gabriel Jackson's I look From Afar, Bo Holten's First Snow, Kenneth Leighton's A Hymn to the Nativity, Jonathan Dove's Three Kings, Andrew Gant's What Child is This, and Robert Convery's Christmas Daybreak. This program is made possible in part by the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Fund. This concert is presented in front of the Museum's Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Creche in the Medieval Sculpture Hall. The exhibit of the creche is made possible by gifts to The Christmas Tree Fund and the Loretta Hines Howard Fund. Ticket: 60 dollars