PASSION (RE)IMAGINED: the little matchgirl
November 8 & 9, 2025

When it is time for me to die
Stay with me
When I am most scared
Stay with me
— David Lang

a curious combination of despair and hope, juxtaposing the earliest polyphonic requiem mass in the repertory with David Lang’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning setting of Hans Christian Anderson’s story “The Little Match Girl”

Program:

• Missa pro defunctis by Johannes Ockeghem

• the little matchgirl passion by David Lang

Concert artwork: Abtei im Eichwald (1809/10) by Caspar David Friedrich.