Two Days to
Sumptuous Planet: the album!
Make the most of the one life you’ve got.

A third video from our Summer Sumptuous shoots!
Because we can’t wait 
for the whole thing, 
which is finally coming 
Friday, Friday, Friday:

David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass!

This is the fourteenth movement, Resurrection – One Life. 
A Mass with humor. 
An evolutionary biologist with wit. 
A composer with whimsy.
But this is just one of the many moods of Sumptuous Planet. 
Taken as a whole, David’s Mass represents an entire life, 
indeed, an entire universe. 


Out November 10 on New Focus Recordings.

Get ready – it's almost here!
Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass
music by David Shapiro

commissioned by The Crossing

14. Resurrection — One Life
“Don’t kid yourself that you’re going to live again after you’re dead; you’re not.
Make the most of the one life you’ve got. Live it to the full.”

– Richard Dawkins, from an Interview with BeliefNet 2005-11,
used by kind permission of the author.

recording by Paul Vazquez
video by Four/Ten Media

This album is made with the generous support of the Neubauer Family Foundation
and an Anonymous donor

Recorded July 7, 2022 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Up Next
David Lang's poor hymnal
The Crossing @ Christmas 2023
The Jeffrey Dinsmore Memorial Concerts

imagine a religion
with the less fortunate at its center;
this is their hymnal

Friday, December 15 @ 6pm & 8:30pm
presented by Penn Live Arts
Iron Gate Theater, University of Pennsylvania
Sunday, December 17 @ 5pm
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
header photo by Ben Simon Rehn