White Snake Projects Announces New Virtual Opera DEATH BY LIFE, Exploring Systemic Racism and Long-Term Incarceration
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 09, 2021 Galvanized by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May, Cerise Jacobs and her activist opera company, White Snake Projects, began a process of development for a new production that would stand as a monument of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The result is the virtual opera De...
Carnegie Hall Presents THE CROSSING In Zankel Hall On March 25
by A.A. Cristi - February 26, 2020 On Wednesday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall. Grammy Award-winning new music choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, performs the New York premiere of Michael Gordon's Travel Guide to Nicaragua with cutting-edge cellist Maya Beiser, a work co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall as part of its 125 C...
BWW Interview: Alex Hare Discusses His Upcoming Musical: A BURNING CHURCH
by Carissa Chesanek - August 10, 2020 We sat down with Alex Hare, the co-director & co-book writer of A Burning Church that runs from August 13 -15, to chat about the show, rehearsing during a pandemic, and how todaya??s social movements can relate to the church. ...
The Crossing Awarded $360,000 Grant From The Pew Center For Arts & Heritage For Ted Hearne's FARMING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 21, 2020 The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage today announced a major grant of $300,000 to GRAMMY-winning new-music choir The Crossing in support of Farming, a concert-length musical work by frequent Crossing collaborator, composer Ted Hearne, to be premiered in summer 2023....
BAM Gala 2021 Will Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Shelby White & the Leon Levy Foundation, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
by Stephi Wild - April 28, 2021 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) announces today its annual gala honorees: actor, Sir Patrick Stewart, longtime BAM supporter Shelby White & the Leon Levy Foundation, and choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women (UBW) Jawole Willa Jo Zollar for their indelible contributions to the performing art...
Austin Jewish Film Festival Celebrates 18th Anniversary Next Month
by A.A. Cristi - October 27, 2020 The Austin Jewish Film Festival will celebrate its 18th year, a year of significance. ...
The Crossing Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 28, 2021 Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, today announces its 2021-2022 season, marking our time of isolation, grief, confusion, hope, returning, emerging, and remembering. During their 20-month exile, the singers of The Crossing could not gather conventionally indo...
The Crossing Releases Gavin Bryars' A NATIVE HILL On Navona Records
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 03, 2021 On Friday, April 9, 2021, The Crossing will release its 24th album, English composer Gavin Bryars' concert-length musical essay A NATIVE HILL, on Navona Records. A Native Hill, based on the early writings of American author and activist Wendell Berry, is Bryars' most substantial work for a cappella ...
The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 25, 2021 Obligations completes a trilogy of pandemic-time collaborations with filmmaker Brett Snodgrass and serves as a transition from works produced in isolation to the return of live singing as The Crossing prepares for The Month of Moderns 2021, opening June 3 and running through June 19 - all in person ...
The Crossing to Return To Montana For Residency July 24 – August 1
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 29, 2021 Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, will return to its summer home in Montana this July for its annual residency in partnership with the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (John Zirkle, Executive Director) in Big Sky....
The Crossing to Release WORDS ADORNED, Featuring The Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble & Dalal Abu Amneh
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 03, 2021 On July 9 GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, will release its 25th commercial album, WORDS ADORNED, on Navona Records. WORDS ADORNED features The Crossing with the Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture's Takht Ensemble - led by Hanna Khoury, who served as musical coach for the project - an...
ORDINARY JOE Adds Charlie Barnett, Natalie Martinez
by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 03, 2020 Variety reports that 'Ordinary Joe' on NBC has added Charlie Barnett and Natalie Martinez to the cast....
The Crossing to Release RISING W/ THE CROSSING On New Focus Recordings
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2020 On Friday, December 11, 2020, GRAMMY-winning new-music choir The Crossing releases its 22nd commercial release, Rising w/ The Crossing, on New Focus Recordings. The album features live concert recordings from The Crossing's archives, chosen by conductor Donald Nally....
The Crossing to Release RISING W/ THE CROSSING On New Focus Recordings
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2020 On Friday, December 11, 2020, GRAMMY-winning new-music choir The Crossing releases its 22nd commercial release, Rising w/ The Crossing, on New Focus Recordings. The album features live concert recordings from The Crossing's archives, chosen by conductor Donald Nally....
The Crossing Releases 'The Tower and The Garden' Feat. Works By Gregory Spears, Joel Puckett, And Toivo Tulev
by Stephi Wild - January 12, 2021 On Friday, February 12, 2021, GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases its 23rd commercial album, THE TOWER AND THE GARDEN on Navona Records. ...
VIDEO: The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 25, 2021 The Crossing today released a new 13-minute film Obligations, recorded at home by the artists in isolation. In-house sound designer Paul Vazquez worked with composer Paul Fowler to overlay over 300 sound files and text by Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier to bring to life Fowler’s chamber-like, ...
The Crossing to Release RISING W/ THE CROSSING On New Focus Recordings
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2020 On Friday, December 11, 2020, GRAMMY-winning new-music choir The Crossing releases its 22nd commercial release, Rising w/ The Crossing, on New Focus Recordings. The album features live concert recordings from The Crossing's archives, chosen by conductor Donald Nally....
The Annenberg Center Co-Presents Grammy Award-Winning Choir The Crossing's Month Of Moderns
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2021 The Annenberg Center to co-presents Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing's Month Of Moderns....
Original Studio Recording of AFTER YOU Featuring Alexia Khadime and Bradley Jaden to be Released
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 17, 2021 Broadway Records announced today the release of the original studio recording of AFTER YOU, the new musical by Alex Parker and Katie Lam. Starring Alexia Khadime (West End: The Prince Of Egypt, Les Miserables, Wicked, The Book of Mormon) and Bradley Jaden (West End: Les Miserables, Wicked, Shrek) AF...
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine Opens 2020-2021 Season With Performance by David Briggs
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 23, 2020 The Cathedral of St. John the Divine opens its 2020-2021 season of Great Music in a Great Space with a performance by organist and Artist in Residence David Briggs, who will present two world premieres of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. ...
The Crossing NYC Film Table Read Moved To Zoom
by A.A. Cristi - May 28, 2020 Last Sunday, thirteen actors in 5 different states logged on to a Zoom conference to stage a reading of a new screenplay, The Crossing. Writer/Director Kevin McLaughlin had planned to do the reading in person at a Manhattan studio on March 15th, but with concern over the COVID-19 virus escalating at...
Jason Huza Teams Up With Heather Jane Rolff for Audiobook
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 06, 2021 Known for such works as The West Ends “It Happened in Key West” (Book and additional lyrics), as well as the upcoming “The Crossing” (Book and Lyrics) as well as novels such as the western buddy comedy Delirium Tremens and the heart-felt drama Emma and Adam - this is Jason's first venture into the w...
David Lang Soundscape SPECTERS OF NOON, Featured in The Menil Collection's New Exhibition
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 12, 2020 GRAMMY Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang has written an interactive soundscape, specters of noon, for The Menil Collection's new exhibition Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon, on exhibit through June 2021. ...
Caramoor Presents The Crossing In Socially Distanced Experience THE FOREST
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 20, 2021 On Saturday, July 3, 2021 at 6:00pm, Caramoor will present The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, in its unique, socially distant, live performance, The Forest. The Forest features the 24 singers of The Crossing, situated in the sounds and sights of the Caramoor grounds, while audience members walk thro...
The Annenberg Center Presents Thomas Kraines and Kinan Abou-afach
by Stephi Wild - February 24, 2021 The live performance at the Annenberg Center will be streamed online and includes an interactive Q&A with the performers and Annenberg Center Executive and Artistic Director Christopher Gruits. ... |