Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/30/2022
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Park Church
Categories
Dearest Heart
Join Elus Vocal Ensemble on April 30th at 7:00 as they perform The Little Match Girl Passion. Buy Tickets Here
Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion is a tragic retelling of the Hans Christen Anderson tale. In the program notes Lang writes,
“What drew me to The Little Match Girl is that the strength of the story lies not in its plot but in the fact that all its parts—the horror and the beauty—are constantly suffused with their opposites. The girl’s bitter present is locked together with the sweetness of her past memories; her poverty is always suffused with her hopefulness. There is a kind of naive equilibrium between suffering and hope …. My piece is called “The Little Match Girl Passion” and it sets Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Little Match Girl” in the format of Bach’s “Saint Matthew Passion,” interspersing Andersen’s narrative with my versions of the crowd and character responses from Bach’s Passion.”
In 2019, The Guardian ranked the the Little Match girl passion the 15th greatest work of art music written in the 21st Century.
