2023-2024 Season: Sin Eating
With less than three weeks till our next major premiere,
we want to share what's up next in our Season of Questions, with some Tweaks.
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You Are Who I Love
a world premiere of Harold Meltzer
with Sandbox Percussion
and our first time singing music of Sarah Rimkus
Sunday, March 17 @ 5pm
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
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Aracelis Girmay's poem, You Are Who I Love, is brilliant. Calming. Exuberant.
Harold Meltzer gives us a new perspective on it, in which we hear the care and the determination in every measure. Sandbox Percussion comes to Philadelphia to join The Crossing in birthing this new, gracious work. With excerpts from Sarah Rimkus' Babylon, and two beloved works of Ēriks Ešenvalds.
You, playing drums in the procession, feeding the chickens
and humming as you hem the skirt, you sharpening the pencil,
you writing the poem about the loneliness of the astronaut
You wanting to listen, you trying to be so still
You are who I love
This is a concert we give as a gift to ourselves.
It is a continuation of the themes we explored
in David Lang's poor hymnal in December.
Who are we, who are they, who are you?
You Are Who I Love
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Change of Program
Due to health issues, the premiere of Gavin Bryars new work for The Crossing has been rescheduled for June 2025.
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Motion Studies:
music of Justine Chen and Nicholas Cline
April 5
Album Release
on Navona Records
These awesome (literally) works tackle the most complex issues.
From Justine, data collection, surveillance: our lives, today. Running from...what?
From Nick, our relationship to water. Does it follow the plow (it does not); is it good for the grass (it is). Nature, our daily living, and politics all subtly come together in this album featuring PRISM sax guru Matthew Levy.
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Coming Soon!
Our first vinyl. A re-release of Gavin Bryars' magnum opus A Native Hill.
An historic LP, an audiophile's dream, a truly monumental work
built on the words of Wendell Berry.
LP Release this Spring 2024
on Navona Records
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The Month of Moderns 1:
Not so much Watching as Waiting
The previously scheduled Philadelphia premiere
of Tyshawn Sorey's Monochromatic Light is postponed.
In its place we present two audience and artist favorites.
Stacy Garrop's In a House Besieged
Robert Maggio's The Woman Where We Are Living
with Scott Dettra, organ and Elizabeth Steiner, harp
Saturday, June 15 @ 5pm
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
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We live our lives assuming that age will not change us.
We know differently.
This is everyone's story.
Rob Maggio's The Woman Where We Are Living juxtaposes the coldly clinical journal entries of Dr. Alzheimer with the real-time experience of the first patient with the disease that bears his name. Rob finds curiosity in the doctor's words and, miraculously, a certain beauty in those of Auguste Deter. Stacy Garrop's In a House Besieged, for organ and choir, draws on essays of Lydia Davis that create a sometimes tender, at other times terrifying, world that is crumbling, closing in, empty. Both works are moving, looking at topics which touch us all, through the lens of choral singing. Both require focused virtuosity and extraordinary vulnerability of singers. Both tell stories that touch everyone in the room.
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The Month of Moderns 2:
Prairie in our Backyard (Inside Edition)
Works of Gabriel Jackson, Santa Ratniece, Kile Smith,
Ayanna Woods, Joseph C. Phillips, and Ēriks Ešenvalds.
Thursday, June 27 @ 7pm
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
(start your weekend early!)
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Titles like Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando and Rigwreck form a platform for our deep dive into the Now, moving from the gulf where oil is spilled, to the prairie that laments the farewells of plants and people, to the mountains where life and relationships are pondered, to the city full of guns, and finally to Jerusalem, home to beauty and to sorrow. Six composers offer personal world views from their widely varying backgrounds spanning Riga to Chicago to London to Brooklyn to our home, Philadelphia.
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