Rising - Lang, protect yourself from infection

Protect yourself from infection
a special Rising w/ The Crossing

a new work from David Lang

---

Morning, Monday April 27

Today, a departure. 
A reimagining of a project commemorating the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic,
and its devastation to the people of Philadelphia. 

We listen. 
We remember.

We want to offer our new film without introduction.
…to offer David’s music fresh.
… to offer this response with grace.
(Full text and background information HERE.)

 Our desire to connect has overwhelmed us... 
and inspired us
to reimagine this work
from the fragments of a former one.

Art: reincarnated.
We are grateful to David for this gift. 

Be well. 

- The Whole Team @ The Crossing
Join us and hear ‘protect yourself from infection’ again this week on Performance Today with Fred Child on a local public radio station.

protect yourself from infection

music by David Lang

words from a 1918 U.S. government document,
with the names of Philadelphians who fell victim to the influenza of 1918

artwork by Steven Bradshaw

film by Brett A. Snodgrass
film conceived and conducted by Donald Nally
with musical assistance from Kevin Vondrak and John Grecia 

recorded, compiled, and produced by Paul Vazquez, with Dante Portella
mixing and post production by Paul Vazquez
Digital Mission Audio Services 

recorded July 9-12, 2019 at The High Point,
St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania

artwork and film created the Week of April 19, 2020

from Spit Spreads Death: The Parade, created by Blast Theory and commissioned by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

* * *