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Monday, April 07, 2008
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP music Writer
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NEW YORKÂ --Â
David Lang had usually loved Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion." Yet as a Jewish composer, playing one
of classical music's greatest works often gave him pause.
"It's any strange factor as a Jewish artist to end up being able to pay attention to this music, because
we are the actual enemy throughout this, we are the unhealthy guy, yet the qualifications music can
be fantastic," he said in the orchestral and also choral piece, written for Easter along with
considered for you to possess some anti-Semitic text.
So when approaching using the concept for which in Monday became his Pulitzer Prize-winning
perform _ "The Small Match Girl Passion" _ he chose to make use involving the revered "St.
Matthew's Passion" as his base, however take away the Christian element in the piece.
"When I got this commission, I thought maybe there's the method to heal this wound, to fix this,
consequently I imagined what it might be like to adopt a variety of the story with the 'St. Matthew's
Passion' as well as take Jesus out regarding it and put inside the story involving this various other
one who additionally suffers and also who in addition dies," he advised The Particular associated
Press upon Monday after winning his prize.
So he utilized the story in the tragic little one who had been your center point associated with Hans
Christian Andersen's "Little Match Girl" along with wrote text which was interspersed with all the
book of Matthew inside the Bible, Andersen's words and also others. Your 35-minute piece, which in
turn debuted from Carnegie Hall in October 2007, had been performed through the vocal team
Theatre associated with Voices.
"It's a very emotional piece. ... it will be a really heartbreaking story," he said. "It's a bizarre
sensation as a composer to become happy to get had thus lots of people in the audience miserable."
Lang, who is co-founder as well as co-artistic director of the music collective Bang on a Can, admits
he had been sensation fairly miserable himself upon Monday morning. He had been creating a bad
day along with was within the studio. His mood didn't brighten until he got any call from National
Public Radio telling him had won the actual Pulitzer.
"I feel just any little better, (but) I'm certain I'll always be miserable tomorrow," he joked.
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