The soil beneath our feet.
A prayer for peace.
Holland and Java lying in the deepest part of a mother’s heart,
and in every sigh is a wireless signal: Hello, oh, my child…
What do these thoughts –
represented in our C@C 2022 music
by David Lang, Caroline Shaw, and Mason Bates
– have to do with Christmas?
Here's our take: holiday music is available to us at every turn; on every device; in every store, street, parking lot; in churches and schools. A world never absent of Mariah Carey, Johnny Mathis, King's College. The world doesn’t need us to sing that.
Instead, we sing about our relationships, trying to explore themes – not of birth and rebirth – but of you and me: family to family, nation to nation, human to Earth.
Communication, distances, friendship.
Things we think about a lot at the holidays.
The Crossing @ Christmas 2022
always intimate, always an event
