Grammy-Winning Choir The Crossing Performs Concert Honoring Choral Conductor Joseph Flummerfelt
Grammy-winning new-music choir, The Crossing, announces a program change to its current concert season with For Joe on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8pm at The Crossing's home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. For Joe honors the life of Joseph Flummerfelt, the preeminent choral conductor of our time who passed away on March 1. Flummerfelt was a former teacher of conductor Donald Nally and together they wrote the 2011 book Conversations With Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians.
The Crossing Performs World Premiere Of Thomas Lloyd's IN THE LIGHT
On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. at The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, The Crossing and conductor Donald Nally present the world premiere of Thomas Lloyd's In the Light, a choral-theater work for 20 voices, clarinet, cello, and piano.
The Crossing Wins Second Consecutive Grammy for Best Choral Performance
The Crossing and Donald Nally have won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for their recording of Lansing McLoskey's Zealot Canticles. The award was presented yesterday, February 10, 2019, at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. This marks the Philadelphia new-music choir's second consecutive Grammy in the category, previously winning the 2018 Grammy for Gavin Bryars' The Fifth Century with PRISM Saxophone Quartet on ECM. The Crossing's recording of Thomas Lloyd's Bonhoeffer (Albany 2016) was nominated for the 2017 Grammy in the same category.
The Crossing Releases Lansing McLoskey: ZEALOT CANTICLES Out September 28, 2018
The Crossing, winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, releases its next album, Lansing McLoskey: Zealot Canticles on September 28, 2018 on Innova Recordings. Based on Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's 'Twelve Canticles for the Zealot' - a strangely beautiful and terrifying look into the minds of fanatics - Lansing McLoskey's Zealot Canticles is a concert-length choral 'oratorio' for clarinet, string quartet, and 24-voice choir. The work makes virtuosic demands on all the artists, particularly on the clarinetist, here, Philadelphia's Doris Hall-Galuti. The string quartet on the album is comprised of violinists Rebecca Harris and Mandy Wolman, violist Lorenzo Raval, and cellist Arlen Hlusko.
The Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts Announces March Events
The Peking Acrobats (March 9-10) kicks off the month and Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live (March 24) offers more family fun. Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Teada (March 17). Big Sonia screens as part of the On Screen/In Person Film Series, March 20. Annenberg Center's three-week Cuba Festival begins with DanzAbierta (March 22-23) and The Pedrito Martinez Group (March 24). The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia explores music's numerous crossroads in intersect: Anatomy of Fusion (March 28)
Annenberg Center Live Presents The Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia in BEYOND BEBOP
Annenberg Center Live presents its orchestra-in-residence, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's in Beyond Bebop: Jazz, Classical and the Third Stream, a unique, interactive concert experience that provides a deeper look into multifaceted dialogue between jazz and classical music and a genre-blurring exploration into new worlds of improvisation. Members of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will play in the round, and host Bob Craig, WRTI Jazz Host, will provide background and insight on each work, lead conversations with the musicians between pieces, and conclude the concert with a casual audience Q & A. The eclectic program Includes three world premieres, two by Music Director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Dirk Brosse, and one by Adam Vidiksis, assistant professor of music technology and composition at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance, who also performs on the piece.
Trio Clavino Comes to The Ware Center Tonight
The Lancaster based ensemble and season favorite, Trio Clavino, will draw from a wide repertoire from 18th Century to 21st Century for this unique combination of chamber music in SERENADE OF THREE tonight, November 14, 7:30 p.m., at the Ware Center. A combination of strings (violin/viola), winds (clarinet/bass clarinet), and piano will give people a rich sound of classical music. The Ware Center is located at 42 N. Prince Street, Lancaster.
Trio Clavino Coming to The Ware Center, 11/14
The Lancaster based ensemble and season favorite, Trio Clavino, will draw from a wide repertoire from 18th Century to 21st Century for this unique combination of chamber music in SERENADE OF THREE on Saturday, November 14, 7:30 p.m., at the Ware Center. A combination of strings (violin/viola), winds (clarinet/bass clarinet), and piano will give people a rich sound of classical music. The Ware Center is located at 42 N. Prince Street, Lancaster.
Kimmel Center to Welcome LA Dance Project, 2/22
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts welcomes organist Renée Anne Louprette as accompanist to the Philadelphia premiere of LA Dance Project'sMoving Parts in Verizon Hall on Sunday, February 22 at 8 p.m.
Trio Clavino to Perform in Concert at the Ware Center
Lancaster's own Trio Clavino will perform a concert of chamber music, with works ranging from the 18th and 19th centuries by Mozart and Schumann to those of contemporary composers Srul Irving Glick and Ping Jin-at the Ware Center of Millersville University in Lancaster on Saturday, Nov. 15, starting 7:30 p.m. in Steinman Hall.
The Vintage Players Celebrate 20th Season with Brian Friel's DANCING AT LUGHNASA This Weekend
The Vintage Players marks its 20th anniversary with three performances of Brian Friel's award-winning play, Dancing at Lughnasa, this weekend, April 25, 26, and 27 at the Green Street Arts Center in Middletown. This hauntingly beautiful memory play is a semi-autobiographical reminiscence of the impact of change on the lives of five sisters and their family in a rural Irish community during the summer of 193