Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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'the preservation of the world' (7th movement), from ”in wildness” by David Lang (LIVE)
Lyrics after Henry David Thoreau and Hans Christian Andersen

DR Pigekoret (Danish National Girls’ Choir)
Charlotte Rowan (conductor)

From the world premiere performance at DR Koncerthuset, March 14th, 2026 – with the Danish String Quartet
- Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
- Frederik Øland
- Asbjørn Nørgaard
- Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin

Stage Design & Direction: Anne Karine Prip & Pelle Nordhøj Kann
Light Design: Jonas Bøgh
Sound Producer: Mikkel Nymand
Music Producer: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir
Tv-producer: Mikkel Suppras
Vocal Teacher: Henriette Nederby
TV-production manager: Tanya Fassbinder
Production Manager: Jacob Weitze Mylund
Artistic Director, Editor and Executive Producer: Anne Karine Prip

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Lyrics:
in wildness is the preservation of the world

every tree sends its roots forth
in search of the wild

cities import it at any price
we plow and sail for it

from the forest and the wilderness
come the tonics and the barks
which brace us all

we believe in the forest
we believe in the meadow
we believe in the night
in which the corn grows

give us a wildness
whose glance no civilization can endure
wild lands where none have settled
we are ready

all good things are wild and free

there is something servile
in the habit of seeking after
a law which we may obey

those of us who take the liberty to live
are superior to all the laws