What Remains When We Are Gone?

The Crossing @ Christmas 2024
The Jeffrey Dinsmore Memorial Concerts
David Lang’s poor hymnal

Friday, December 20 @ 7pm

Saint Mark’s Church
1625 Locust Street, Philadelphia

Why do some works demand we revisit them? 
The question is a larger one about how works become canonical – how they enter the culture and stay there. 
So, we offer a rare reprise of a work that, at its premiere, was already beloved by singers, and listeners. 

The question in David’s thoughtful, moving, inspiring work?
“How do we treat each other?”     

Still as the 
Stern
Profile of a 
Tree against
a winter tree –
   sunset tree –
   evening †

† Emily Dickinson, heard in the N. American premiere
of Linda Catlin Smith’s Folio, Feb 7.