Daughter of Light

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Date:

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Time:

5:30 PM

Location:

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Directions

Featuring:

Pacific Chorale
John Alexander Singers
Pacific Symphony
Lori Loftus, organ
John Alexander, conducting

Soloists:

Zanaida Robles, soprano • James Martin Schaefer, baritone

Buy Tickets:

GREEN - Box Circle $125.00
NAVY - Orchestra Rows G-R $75.00
NAVY - Orchestra Terrace Center $75.00
NAVY - Box Circle (Boxes 6-9 and 22-25) $75.00
BLUE - Orchestra Rows D-F $65.00
BLUE - Dress Circle $65.00
RED - Dress Circle Sides $60.00
BURGUNDY - Orchestra Terrace Sides $50.00
PURPLE - Orchestra Rows A-C $40.00
PURPLE - Promenade Circle $40.00
ORANGE - Orchestra Rows AA-CC $25.00
ORANGE - Grand Tier Rows A-E $25.00
YELLOW - Promenade Circle Sides $15.00
YELLOW - Grand Tier Rows F-G $15.00

Program:

Seating Chart

Choose your own seat at the Orange County Performing Arts Center's website.

Pulitzer Prize juror Tim Page commented, "I don't think I've ever been so moved by a new, and largely unheralded, composition as I was by David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion, which is unlike any music I know." Pitchfork reviewer Jayson Greene agreed, writing, "...The Little Match Girl Passion is as much a devotional piece as the Bach Passion it is modeled on, and with it, Lang has produced the most profound and emotionally resonant work of his career."

Gabriel Fauré wrote about his Requiem, "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, and aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience."

The music on this program addresses the painful subject of death, especially the premature death of the young and innocent. It is all the more remarkable, then, that its ultimate message is one of transcendence and faith, as it traces the human journey from sorrow and suffering to deliverance and eternal rest.

Giacomo Carissimi	Plorate filii Israel from Jephte
David Lang	The Little Match Girl Passion (Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music; Southern California Premiere)
Gabriel Fauré	Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

Recommended Recordings:
• Lang, The Little Match Girl Passion: Paul Hillier, Theatre of Voices; harmonia mundi
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• Fauré, Requiem: John Rutter, Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia; Collegium
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More reading about The Little Match Girl Passion:

NewMusicBox: "David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion awarded 2008 Pulitzer," April 7, 2008

New York Times: "Classical Recordings: Two Pulitzer Winners and One Eclectic Mix," May 31, 2009

NewMusicBox: "Sounds Heard: David Lang—the little match girl passion" June 8, 2009

ArtsCriticATL.com: "Talking with David Lang About 'The Little Match Girl Passion,'" January 5, 2010

The Austin Chronicle: "Possibility of Failure: Pulitzer or not, composer David Lang won't play it safe," April 30, 2010

Austin360.com: "Noted composer's passion confronts suffering, religion," May 1, 2010