American composer David Lang A POST-Easter concert of songs exploring human compassion — and the lack of it — will be Luminescence Chamber Singers’ next project titled, “The Little Match Girl Passion”. The 14-part song cycle by American composer David Lang tells the sad story of the girl who freezes to death selling matches on the street on a cold winter’s night, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s famous 1845 story, “The Little Match Girl” and expanded on by Oscar Wilde in “The Happy Prince”, where the prince gives the match girl one of his eyes to make sure her father will not beat her.