The Crossing is going to Big Ears!
Join The Crossing this March at the 2017 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN! Along with our friends from PRISM, we're bringing Gavin Bryars' The Fifth Century to this dynamic, interactive festival that explores connections between musicians and artists. The New York Times hailed our performance of The Fifth Century at Trinity Wall Street this past June as "eloquent" and "superb," calling the work "haunting" and praising Gavin for creating a "meditative space...luxuriating in rich harmonies and reflective flow."

Big Ears is quickly becoming a must-go destination on the new-music circuit, hosting composers from Philip Glass to Laurie Anderson to Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood; ensembles such as Bang on a Can, Ensemble Signal, The Bad Plus, So Percussion, and The Wordless Music Orchestra; leading alternative rock artists like The National, Swans, tUnE-yArDs; the list goes on.

Check out the retrospective from last year's festival below, then head over to bigearsfestival.com for the full lineup and tickets to this year's festival. See you in Knoxville!
Also coming up...

Wednesday, October 12 @ 7:30pm
Winter Garden @ Brookfield Place
230 Vesey St.
New York, NY 10281

Free

Song of the Human (world premiere)
by Peter Wyer
hosted by John Schaefer and broadcast on WNYC's New Sounds Live
with Thomas Mesa, cello

We sing two classic works from our repertoire - Santa Ratniece's  horo horo hata hata, a meditation on the souls of animals, and John Tavener's prayerful  Svyati in which the cello becomes a cantor for the choir - and add a substantial new work with a world premiere of Peter Wyer. His  Song of the Human is an immersive sound installation that places speakers above, below and around the main plaza of the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, with The Crossing at its center.

Saturday, October 29 @ 7pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10028
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Sunday, October 30 @ 6pm
The Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
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Sky with Four Suns. The Dark Wind. Dream of the Canyon Wren.
These are among the fourteen atmospheric titles that comprise this hour-long magnum opus of Pulitzer-laureate John Luther Adams. Commissioned by The Crossing in 2012, the work has lived in our minds and hearts, awaiting its revival - a unique aural kaleidoscope in which four choirs surround the audience, their canons unfolding across landscapes of time, as the "wind" swirls magically around the room. 
Our 2013 performance of Canticles of the Holy Wind at The Icebox at Crane Arts; Becky Oehlers Photography
And from our friends...
Trio Mediæval at The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Music in the Galleries

Trio Mediæval
Wednesday, October 19, 6:30pm

Some of you may recall our fantastic collaboration with the Norwegian Girls Choir on a rather warm July evening in 2012 - a great artistic event. More Norwegian friends visit Philadelphia this month, with the appearance of Oslo's Trio Mediæval at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

The mesmerizing voices of Trio Mediæval have captivated the concert world with their breathtaking performances and recordings of a diverse polyphonic repertoire that features medieval music from England and France, contemporary works written for the ensemble, and traditional  Norwegian  ballads and songs.

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