On July 6, 2020, Donald Nally and Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing have launched Series 2 of “Rising w/ The Crossing: Equinox Lope.” Every Monday at sunrise, the organization will release a full recording of a live concert from past works. Each broadcast will also include the original program, along with texts and composer notes, which will be available for {…}
This week two albums are released by acclaimed artists. Here is a look at what’s in store for opera lovers. Desire Sony Classical releases Aleksandra Kurzak’s new album, which marks her first solo album on the label. In this new album, Kurzak celebrates the great romantic heroines of the operatic repertoire and includes works by Cilea, Moniuszko, Puccini, Verdi, and {…}
This month’s Off the Beaten Track explores the newly released recording of “The Wake World: A Tale for Babes and Sucklings,” a one-act opera composed by Los Angeles-based composer/librettist David Hertzberg and inspired by Aleister Crowley’s work of the same name. The recording is the first opera released under the Tzadik label. Founder and executive producer of Tzadik, John Zorn {…}
The Crossing has released a new film that highlights David Lang’s “protect yourself from infection.” The work was commissioned by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia for the September 2019 parade and he “Spit Spreads Death” exhibition that commemorates the 1918-19 Flu Pandemic. The film was conceived by conducted Donald Nally and created by Brett Snodgrass {…}
(Credit: Becky Oehlers Photography) The Crossing is set to perform the world premiere performances of Michael Gordon’s “Travel Guide to Nicaragua” this March. The group will join forces with cellist Maya Beiser to present a performance on March 22, 2020 at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, before taking up the work yet again on March 25, 2020 at Carnegie Hall {…}
(Credit: Christian Stewart) The Annenberg Center in Philadelphia is set to present “Knee Plays” featuring The Crossing. The performance, which is set for Feb. 21 and 22, 2020, is a newly staged theatrical production that will center on Philip Glass’ “Knee Plays” from his famed “Einstein on the Beach.” The concert will also present David Byrne’s “The Knee Plays” with {…}
The Crossing has received a major gift of $200,000 from Thomas Kasdorf of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Per a press release, the gift is intended to support the organization in its mission to commission works by Edie Hill, Tawnie Olsen, Gavin Bryars, Daniel Felsenfeld, Aaron Helgeson, Gabriel Jackson, and Michael Gordon throughout the 2019-20 season. “I believe in the power of choral {…}
The Crossing @ Christmas is set to showcase the world premiere of Edie Hill’s “Spectral Spirits” in New York City and Philadelphia this December. The performances are set to take place on Dec. 20 at the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia followed by a showcase on Dec. 21 at the Met Cloisters in New York. A day later, the {…}
Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, will start off its domestic season with the world premiere of Gavin Bryars’ “A Native Hill.” Bryars’ new a capella work, which will have its first performance at Philadelphia’s Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, set to texts from Wendell Berry’s 1968 essay of the same title. The follow up to his {…}
Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include several world premieres. Dan Henriksson and Donald Nally will direct the choral-theatre work “Aniara: fragments of time and space,” presented by Finnish National Opera at Almi Hall in Helsinki. The Crossing will be joined by Klockriketeatern, with featured performers Matti Raita and Carl Alm. Performance Dates: Sept. 16 {…}
Michael Gordon’s choral work “Anonymous Man” will be getting its world premiere on July 1, 2017, in Philadelphia in a performance featuring the Donald Nally-led choir, The Crossing. The concert-length work for solo chorus was written for the 24-voice organization and was inspired by Gordon’s real-life experiences in an ever-changing Lower Manhattan, meeting his future wife, raising a family. But one {…}