David Lang

And I tried to set it so that it would keep that power.

So most of what the chorus is singing, they sing in unison.

And most of what the orchestra is doing, the orchestra is doing in unison with the singers.

Well, I think the lesson that gold is God today has been learned very well.

That's not quite the lesson I was asking about.

We could do better.

I think that that's the whole point, right?

If we had actually paid attention to all the lessons we could have learned up to now, you know, all the music would be about love and dancing.

And the fact that we still have other things to write about...

It means we have a little farther to go.

Yeah, I just wrote that one.

One thing that happens in this text and probably many economic texts is that we assume that everyone in the world participates equally and frictionlessly in any kind of formula of how systems interact.

One thing that Adam Smith takes for granted is that everyone in the world is going to be part of this system, and everyone has to follow these rules.

So when he gives an example of the poorest person he can think of, he talks about the laborer who has a woolen coat.

And I just thought, well, there actually are people who don't have a coat.

Those people don't show up in this book.

And so I was looking for a text in which I could find someone who was coatless, and I decided finally that I would write it myself.

The first rehearsal is going to be with the chorus and with piano, not with the orchestra.

And so I will walk into a rehearsal studio at Lincoln Center.

The chorus, probably some of the people I will know, probably most of them I won't,