The Crossing, in less snowy times.

Wednesday night.

Bing Concert Hall.

Stanford University.

You carrying your brother home

You noticing the butterflies

Sharing your water, sharing your potatoes and greens

Harold Meltzer.

Aracelis Girmay.

You who the borders crossed

You whose fires

You decent with rage, so in love with the earth

You writing poems alongside children

Sandbox Percussion.

Us.

We bring Harold Meltzer’s last major work, You are Who I Love, to Stanford University for its West Coast Premiere…and our Bay Area debut! The work, with 100 percussion instruments (!) played masterfully by Sandbox, takes us on a moving and intimate journey of the daily lives of immigrants. 

Feeding your heart, teaching your parents how to do The Dougie, 

counting to 10, reading your patients’ charts

A glimpse of the percussion set-up from our premiere performance of You Are Who I Love, March 2024.

Photograph by Abraham Morales.

The Crossing @ Stanford University

music of Harold Meltzer, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Sarah Rimkus

w/ Sandbox Percussion

Wednesday, February 25 @ 7:30pm PST

preconcert talk with poet Aracelis Girmay and Donald at 6:45pm

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University

327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA

Also on the program are works of Sarah Rimkus (whose Babylon captures the wandering and challenges of people in a strange land) and Ēriks Ešenvalds (whose Earth Teach Me Quiet celebrates our relationship to and wonder at nature). This is such a rich program – musically, topically, emotionally. 

Our appearance at Stanford Live is made possible through the generosity of the Meltzer family and friends. 

You are Who I Love was commissioned for The Crossing and Sandbox Percussion by Justus and Helen Schlichting. 

Coming April 2026

Our 40^th album

Rigwreck

music of Gabriel Jackson

on Navona Records

album artwork by Rita Quattrocchi

Header photograph by Charles Grove.