we're grateful for all the energy and fun that produced...
Five Recordings
on...
ECM, Cantaloupe, Innova, and Navona
with...
Gavin Bryars, Ted Hearne, John Luther Adams, Edie Hill,
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Lewis Spratlan, Santa Ratniece, Caroline Shaw,
David T. Little, Hans Thomalla, and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
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Recognition
American Composers Forum 2017 Champion of New Music
2017 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming
2017 GRAMMY Nomination for Best Choral Performance (Lloyd's Bonhoeffer)
Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art
Friendly reviews in...
The New York Times, The Guardian, Opera News, The New Yorker,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Financial Times, Gramophone, Q2,
The Chicago Tribune (10 Best Classical Recordings of 2016),
The Chestnut Hill Local, and The Broad Street Review
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Collaborations
with new friends...
National Sawdust
Big Ears Festival (Knoxville)
Philadelphia Fringe
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Symphony Space
Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Colgate University (and their amazing students)
The Barnes Foundation
Brookfield Place New York /
The Winter Garden
"New Sounds on WNYC" with John Schaefer
Christ Church Christiana Hundred
Beth Morrison Projects
...and old
The Big Sky Conservatory/Warren Miller Performing Arts Center
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Mesa
WRTI
The Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts
our home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
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New works
from...
Gregory Brown
Dai Fujikura
Joshua Stamper
Lansing McLoskey
Michael Gordon
Aaron Helgeson
our Big Sky Fellows Alex Berko, Natalie Dietterich,
Nicholas Cline, Nic Chuaqui, Cortlandt Matthews
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Major Support
$200,000 grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
$150,000 grant from William Penn Foundation
$30,000 from the New York Community Trust
$50,000, $25,000, & $20,000 Anonymous gifts from friends of The Crossing
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Friends
We sang for a number of new audiences and made a ton of new friends.
More people attended our pre-concert lectures than in previous seasons,
and our Fringe, Christmas, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and National Sawdust concerts were all sold out!
Thank you to everyone for our amazing year.
