Lang: poor hymnal

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Label
Cantaloupe Music
Release Date
February 21, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      David Lang
    • PERFORMER
      The Crossing
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 21, 2025
    • UPC
      713746320522
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CA21205
    • LABEL
      Cantaloupe Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral
    Works ⌄

    1. I saw a poor man

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    2. open your hands (after deuteronomy 15)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    3. our hearts tell us (after psalm 27 and mahatma gandhi)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    4. all who are hungry (after the passover haggadah)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    5. the least of us (after leviticus 19 and matthew 25)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    6. I know I should (after h.a. walter)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    7. if you close your ear (after proverbs 21:13)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    8. prayer for kindness

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    9. what is mine (after elizabeth warren, barack obama, and saint basil)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    10. take nothing with you (after luke 9:3)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    11. what remains (after the sayings of the fathers and matthew 6)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    12. things that never fail (after 1 corinthians 13)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    13. I saw a poor man - choral return

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    14. wherever charity is (after tolstoy, after ubi caritas)

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally


Like his Pulitzer-winning work the little match girl passion, David Lang's 'poor hymnal' tries to get to the core of what a religious experience can be. "What I love about hymnals," the composer writes in his liner notes to the CD, "is that they're a catalog of things a community of worshippers can agree on - a catalog that can be sung. And what the worshippers are singing about matters." 'poor hymnal' is a concert-length work written for the multiple GRAMMY Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally. Lang constructed the text by stitching together lines, phrases and poignant utterances from sources as varied as the Old Testament, Mahatma Gandhi and Tolstoy - to name just a few. As Lang explains: "This piece is trying to say: The reason we are coming together is to remember how important we are to each other, and to remember how important it is that we take care of each other."