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"The Little Match Girl Passion" by David Lang, performed by Theatre of Voices

World premiere of "Death Speaks" by David Lang

• Owen Pallett – vocals and violin
• Bryce Dessner – vocals and guitar
• Shara Worden – vocals and guitar
• Nico Muhly – keyboards

Review: San Jose Mercury News.

"The Little Match Girl Passion" by David Lang, performed by Theatre of Voices

"Death Speaks" by David Lang

• Owen Pallett – vocals and violin
• Bryce Dessner – vocals and guitar
• Shara Worden – vocals and guitar
• Nico Muhly – keyboards

This was part of the Making Music series.

Review: The New York Times.

• John Darnielle
• Tribe of the Horned Heart
• Bride
• In the Shadow of the Western Hills
• Slow West Vultures
• Hail St. Sebastian
• Your Belgian Things
• Wild Sage
• 1 John 4:16
• Enoch 18:14
• John Darnielle with Anonymous 4 (guitar, piano, and voices arranged by Owen Pallett)
• Until I Am Whole
• Night Light
• Spent Gladiator II
• In Memory of Satan
• White Cedar
• Lakeside View Apartments Suite
• Counterfeit Florida Plates
• Encore
• Cut Off Their Thumbs

The arranged songs were new Mountain Goats songs later released on the album Transcendental Youth.

Recording: NPR.

• John Darnielle
• Transcendental Youth
• Tribe of the Horned Heart
• Bride
• In the Shadow of the Western Hills
• Slow West Vultures
• Isaiah 45:23
• Your Belgian Things
• Cut Off Their Thumbs
• Genesis 3:23
• Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace
• John Darnielle with Anonymous 4 and Owen Pallett (guitar, piano, and voices arranged by Owen Pallett)
• Until I Am Whole
• Night Light
• Spent Gladiator II
• In Memory of Satan
• White Cedar
• Lakeside View Apartments Suite
• Counterfeit Florida Plates
• Encore
• Enoch 18:14 (John Darnielle)
• 1 John 4:16 (John Darnielle with Owen Pallett on violin)
• Parting Friends (John Darnielle, Anonymous 4, and Owen Pallett)

The arranged songs were new Mountain Goats songs later released on the album Transcendental Youth. Owen filled in for Susan Hellauer, a member of the a cappella quartet Anonymous 4, due to family illness.

Reviews: Consequence of Sound, I Care if You Listen.

Bootleg: On dimeadozen, there is a torrent for a 472 MB recording that also includes Anonymous 4's set. Notes by the taper Haunted Organ:

Source: Olympus LS-5 (built-in mics, 16/44.1 WAVE) > Cool Edit 2000 (normalization, file split) > FLAC Frontend (FLAC level 6)

Location: Balcony, front row, left side

Sorry about variating audio levels. The actual music was recorded at a pretty good level, whilst the clapping was almost always too loud. Also, some of the stage banter was spoken off mics, so it is very quiet. I tried to do some normalizing, but I wasn't happy with the results so in the end I just left it as it was recorded. If somebody wants to go ahead and try to enhance the recording, be my guest.