The four-time Grammy Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing announces its 2026-27 season conducted by Donald Nally. The season opens with the concert titled “Time” which features the east coast premiere of Nicholas Cline’s “The Sea Came Up and Drowned,” along with Joshua Stamper’s “’mid the steep sky’s commotion.” Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2026 (Philadelphia, PA) The Crossing gives the world {…}
The Crossing is set to present the world premiere of Nathalie Joachim’s new piece based on the writings of Benjamin Franklin. Joachim is a Grammy-nominated performer and composer who centers her creative practice on authentic commitment to storytelling and human connectivity while advocating for social change and cultural awareness. Her compositions are informed by her work as a professional vocalist {…}
DACAMERA announces its 2026-27 season. Here’s a look at the classical voice works coming up. Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three perform Kevin Puts’s “No Prisoner Be” at DACAMERA’s Opening Night gala. Andrew Staples directs and is the lighting and sound designer, along with William Reynolds and Colin Egan who also serve as lighting designer and sound engineer. Performance Date: Oct. {…}
The Crossing concludes its 21st season with additional programming. This article only includes newly announced events. “The Month of Moderns 1,” presented by ArtPhilly as part of the What Now: 2026 Festival, features a world premiere by Nicole Lizée, along with works David Lang, Shara Nova, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Edie Hill, Caroline Shaw, and Gabriel Jackson. Performance Dates: June {…}
The Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester has named Donald Nally as visiting professor of conducting and ensembles and interim director of choral activities for the 2026-2027 academic year. In his interim position, Nally, who is the founder of Grammy Award-winning The Crossing, will lead the Eastman Chorale and Eastman-Rochester Chorus while working with graduate students in {…}
(Photo credit: Brandon Patoc) For its 2026 season, Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary at Fairmount Park. This article only features classical music events. Highmark Mann’s newly commissioned oratorio, “A Hundred Years On” by Peter Boyer and Mark Campbell celebrates the 1876 Centennial Exposition, which took place in Fairmount Park. Soloists include sopranos Mary Dunleavy, {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. The holiday season has begun, which means operetta and this week there is an important remastering being released. There is also a new DVD of an important baroque work with a leading soprano. Die Fledermaus Decca rereleases Herbert Von Karajan’s classic 1960 “Die {…}
The professional choir The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, will continue its season with the world premiere performances of Christopher Cerrone’s “Of being numerous” on Nov. 21 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and Nov. 23 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee. The new work draws its name from a poem of George Oppen, a Pulitzer {…}
The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, is adding another New York City performance to its schedule for the upcoming season. The chorus will give a New York performance of its December show, “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor,” as part of the series “The Crossing @ Christmas 2025.” The concert will take place on Dec. 20, at 5:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s {…}
Philadelphia’s The Crossing has announced its 2025-26 season. First up is “Unalienable,” which includes the world premiere of Nina Shekhar’s “Tic-Talk” as well as the first live performance of the 2024 pre-election video “Cloud Anthem” by Michael Gilbertson. Also on the program is the world premiere of Kile Smith’s “Let all the Strains of Joy (mingle in my last song.” {…}
The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, is set to return to Philadelphia for a June 14 world premiere of Gavin Bryars’ “The Last Days of Immanuel Kant.” The relationship between the renowned British composer and The Crossing is intimate, collaborative, and productive and this time Bryars turns to the insightful, melancholy recollections of Thomas De Quincy as he describes {…}