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Chorus America announced yesterday that The Crossing and Donald are the recipients of national awards recognizing the quality and impact of our work.
Donald will receive the 2017 Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Art. The award draws together Philadelphia history: Michael Korn was a beloved Philadelphia music icon who paved the way for all-professional choruses in the city. After Michael's untimely death in 1991, Donald succeeded him as chorus master at Opera Philadelphia in the fall of 1992. Past recipients have included Robert Shaw, Fred Waring, Margaret Hillis, Ned Rorem, and Philadelphian Alan Harler. Learn more about the award
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The Crossing will receive the 2017 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, which recognizes member choruses that demonstrate a commitment to fostering and promoting new music. The award gives special attention to commissioned works and to regional, North American and world premieres. This is the third time that The Crossing has been chosen for this award; we first received it in 2009 and again in 2011. Learn more about the award
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Of the awards, Donald said, "For over eleven years, the artists of The Crossing have worked tirelessly to bring contemporary music of the highest quality to an amazingly supportive audience in Philadelphia and beyond. We are so grateful that this effort has achieved a certain amount of recognition and status for new choral works, for the compositional voices that created them, and for the people who sing them. We are particularly thankful for Chorus America, an organization that has embraced our work every step of the way."
The awards will be presented at Chorus America's Annual Conference in Los Angeles June 21-24.
Thank you to Chorus America for this recognition,
and thank YOU for your support of The Crossing!
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