David Lang: poor hymnal performed by The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor

In the New York premiere of David Lang’s poor hymnal, a concert-length work written for the GRAMMY Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, Lang wonders “if the hymns of a community that did not want to forget our responsibilities to each other, and that wanted to make our responsibilities to each other the central tenet of our coming together, might be different from the hymns that we are singing now.” Like his Pulitzer-winning work, the little match girl passion, poor hymnal tries to get to the core of what a religious experience can be.