How To Pray

Evening Music | May 6, 2010

Tonight we hear David Lang’s “How to Pray,” a trancelike piece that the American composer describes as a work about “how to put yourself in the position to receive a certain kind of message, and how difficult it is to receive it.” Also, “Dancing Solo” by the great Libby Larsen and Thomas Kerr’s “Easter Monday Swagger, Scherzino.”


Also Featured Tonight:

Arvo Part / Mein Weg
Paul Lansky / Chatter of Pins
Jon Hassell / Last Night The Moon Came Out
Claude Debussy / String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 10
Alan Hovhaness / Floating World - Ballade for Orchestra

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