David Lang: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field David Lang & Mac Wellman

• 1Opening02:26
• 2Belladonna. The First Telling08:40
• 3Interlude 1, Today Is the Day01:40
• 4Monkshood. The Second Telling06:22
• 5Interlude 201:09
• 6Poison Hemlock. The Third Telling10:48
• 7Poison Ivy. The Fourth Telling12:01
• 8Loco Weed. The Fifth Telling10:53
• 9Interlude 3, The Disappearence02:22
• 10Black Nightshade. The Sixth Telling05:00
• 11Wordless Prayer of Thanks01:09
• 12Foxglove. The Seventh Telling13:49
• Total Runtime01:16:19

Info for David Lang: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field

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 neighbors 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 of New York City's established and emerging talent in opera and theater, including Beverly O'Regan Thiele, Laquita Mitchell and Jay O. Sanders.

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