Lang, D: The difficulty of crossing a field

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Release Date: 8th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: CA21107
Label: Cantaloupe
Length: 75 minutes

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Lang, D: The difficulty of crossing a field

Work length1:15:31

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Beverly O'Regan Thiele, Cree Carrico, Daniel Zippi, Christopher Burchett, Laquita Mitchell, Jay O. Sanders, Mari-Yan Pringle, Nicole Mitchell, Martin Bakari, Jorell Williams, Brandon Coleman, Isaiah Robinson
Harlem String Quartet
Douglas Kinney Frost

Opening

Track length2:23

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Belladonna. The First Telling

Track length8:39

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Interlude 1, Today Is the Day

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Monkshood. The Second Telling

Track length6:26

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Interlude 2

Track length1:10

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Poison Hemlock. The Third Telling

Track length10:43

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Poison Ivy. The Fourth Telling

Track length11:52

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Loco Weed. The Fifth Telling

Track length10:49

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Interlude 3, The Disappearence

Track length2:20

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Black Nightshade. The Sixth Telling

Track length5:01

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Wordless Prayer of Thanks

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Foxglove. The Seventh Telling

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Libretto by Mac Wellman

Directed by Bob McGrath

Based on a one-page story by Ambrose Bierce, The difficulty of crossing a field is a joint collaboration in musical theater between composer David Lang and playwright Mac Wellman that recounts, in the words of a recent New York Times performance review, “a strange disappearance and what the neighbours have to say about it”.

Mixing arias with spoken text and emotional melodies with tense drama, the story takes place in 1854 near Selma, Alabama, where a planter named Williamson has vanished without a trace while crossing a field. The original production was staged in March 2002 at the Theater Artaud in San Francisco, starring Julia Migenes as the wife of Williamson, and Tony-award winning singer Anika Noni Rose as the leader of the slave chorus, with music performed onstage by the Kronos Quartet.

This recording of The difficulty of crossing a field was tracked and produced by Lawson White, in partnership with Beth Morrison Projects, and features the Harlem String Quartet and an A-list of New York City’s established and emerging talent in opera and theatre, including Beverly O’Regan Thiele, Laquita Mitchell and Jay O Sanders.

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