The Borealis Chamber Artists are rehearsing for a performance of “The Little Match Girl Passion” that will include dance choreography and benefit Chum. The composition won David Lang the Pulitzer ...

We are in a small Italian town on Christmas Eve in the mid 19th century. The well-to-do buy gifts and delicacies for the table. An orphaned girl needs to sell her home-made matches to acquire the bare ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

When the Crypt was constructed between 1912 and 1915, one doubts architect Bertram Goodhue envisioned future audiences gathering for intimate choral performances among the sealed niches of the ...

In The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, a little girl is forced to sell matches on the street in the cold of New Year's Eve. Advertisement ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Essay Many Christmas standards were not written by Christians. David Lang explains the appeal for him, a Jewish composer of a modern holiday classic.

His fairy tales are part of our cultural fabric, but “The Little Match Girl” still haunts me. An 1849 illustration for “The Little Match Girl” from the first American edition of “Hans Andersen’s Story ...

Inspired by match company workers’ successful strike in 1888 London and using Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” as a framework, Carroll (Sky Chasers) spins a tale that incites a ...

A dance theatre adaptation inspired by the tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story, this touching tale of an impoverished young street girl’s hopes ...

A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave ...