Video Information

• Choir: Radcliffe Choral Society
• Piece: evening morning day
• Composer:  David Lang
• Conductor:  Beth Willer
• Voices:  SSAA
• Sheet Music:   davidlangmusic.com/music/...  
• Genres: Contemporary
• "evening morning day" by David Lang. Text from the Book of Genesis 1.
  
  Recorded live on March 16, 2015, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Radcliffe Choral Society of Harvard University. Director: Beth...  more"evening morning day" by David Lang. Text from the Book of Genesis 1.
  
  Recorded live on March 16, 2015, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Radcliffe Choral Society of Harvard University. Director: Beth Willer.
  
  The composer writes: "I wanted to make a piece about the creation story but I didn't want to highlight one religion's or culture's narrative over another."
  
  "It was important for me to try to find something universal, something present in all stories, or common to all cultures. I hit upon the idea of making a kind of checklist of everything that needed to be created to get the world to this point, without each individual culture's stories or myths or exoticisms. I went back to the first chapter of Genesis, to see what I could get out of my own culture's story, and I stripped away all the descriptions, adjectives, connectors and motivators. All that is left of Genesis in my text are the nouns, leaving a dispassionate list of everything created, in the order in which it is mentioned."
  
  heaven earth
  earth darkness deep waters
  light light
  light light darkness
  light day darkness night evening morning day
  
  firmament waters waters waters
  firmament waters firmament waters firmament
  firmament heaven evening morning day
  
  waters heaven place land
  land earth waters seas
  earth grass herb seed fruit-tree fruit seed earth
  earth grass herb seed tree fruit seed
  evening morning day
  
  lights firmament heaven day night signs seasons days years
  lights firmament heaven light earth
  day night light darkness
  evening morning day
  
  waters creatures birds earth firmament heaven
  sea-monsters creature waters birds
  waters seas birds earth
  evening morning day
  
  earth creatures birds earth firmament heaven
  sea-monsters creature waters birds
  waters seas...    less