The Crossing has announced the release of “You Can Plan on Me,” a new short film by Luke Carpenter and Emma Oehlers with audio by Paul Vasquez. The video is conducted by Donald Nally and features members of The Crossing performing from their homes. The music is based on an excerpt of Aaron Helgeson’s “A way far home” with words {…}
As the holiday season arrives there are new holiday albums, rarely performed gems, and world premiere recordings. Here is a look at what audiences can stream this week. White Christmas Joseph Calleja has released a single of the holiday classic on Decca Classics. The new track features Mantovani and His Orchestra and marks Calleja’s first Christmas recording. Rising W/The Crossing {…}
The Grammy® Award-winning professional choir, The Crossing, is inviting audiences to take a walk in the woods with its new film, “The Forest.” The Crossing released the 20-minute film on November 24 and is available on the choir’s YouTube channel. The film is a literal walk through the woods, filmed in one continuous take and accompanied by the sounds of {…}
On October 3, 2020 Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing is set to perform a socially-distanced performance of “The Forest.” This performance will feature 24 singers performing along a trail at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope, Pennsylvania. This new work focuses on the relationship between a forest and its individual trees, seen as a metaphor for an ensemble’s relationship {…}
On August 31, 2020, Grammy Award-winning choir, The Crossing, will premiere a new animated film, featuring a movement from Michael Gordon’s “Anonymous Man.” The work, which premiered in July 2017, explores themes of history, home, and homelessness; the animation is done by longtime collaborator Brett Snodgrass, and the film was conceived by Choir Director Donald Nally. “Anonymous Man” is scored {…}
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 {…}