The Crossing
The Crossing is a relatively young American ensemble, about 35 singers strong, that has gained unusually wide critical acclaim while specializing in contemporary music and bringing a broad variety of new music to the repertory via commissions. The choir was founded in 2005 by a group of friends who included veteran choral director Donald Nally, who had served as artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia and as chorus master of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. (A co-founder, Jeffrey Dinsmore, died suddenly during a rehearsal in 2014.) The new group quickly gained a reputation and held a residency at the 2007 Spoleto Festival in Italy. Since then, the Crossing has worked with ensembles as diverse as the American Composers Orchestra and the Rolling Stones (on a 2013 tour). They have appeared at New York's Lincoln Center (in the Mostly Mozart Festival), premiering a new work by John Luther Adams, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. From 2009 to 2014, they operated a festival of their own, Month of Moderns. The Crossing has recorded for the contemporary music labels Navona, Innova, Albany, ECM, and Cantaloupe, releasing albums as if they were water, featuring new compositions by Gregory W. Brown and Stratis Minakakis, on Innova in 2018.
Perhaps the heart of the Crossing's activities has been their energetic commissioning of new music. The group has been responsible for more than 70 premieres of new works by a wide variety of composers that includes international figures such as Latvia's Ēriks Ešenvalds and Iceland's Anna Thorvaldsdottir as well as American composers of many styles and schools, including, in addition to Brown and John Luther Adams, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Gabriel Jackson, David Lang, David Shapiro, and Lewis Spratlan. The choir's musical qualities have won consistent praise in mainstream press organs as well as among connoisseurs of new music. In 2019, the Crossing, under Nally, released two albums Voyages: Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Robert Convery, and Kile Smith: The Arc in the Sky, both of which earned Grammy nominations. The Crossing was featured on another Grammy-nominated album in 2019, joining the New York Philharmonic on Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth.
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Sila: The Breath of the World
The Crossing, JACK Quartet, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble, University of Michigan Chamber Musicians, Donald Nally
Klassik - Erschienen bei Cantaloupe Music am 23.09.2022
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Wolfe : Fire in my mouth
New York Philharmonic, Jaap van Zweden, The Crossing
Klassik - Erschienen bei UMC - Decca Gold am 30.08.2019
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Gavin Bryars: A Native Hill
The Crossing, Steven Bradshaw, Maren Montalbano-Brehm, Donald Nally
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Navona am 09.04.2021
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Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century - Two Love Songs
The Crossing, Donald Nally, Prism Quartet
Klassik - Erschienen bei ECM New Series am 18.11.2016
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Carols After a Plague
The Crossing, Donald Nally, Kevin Vondrak
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei New Focus Recordings am 09.12.2022
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David Shapiro: Sumptuous Planet (A Secular Mass)
Klassik - Erschienen bei New Focus Recordings am 10.11.2023
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Rising w/ The Crossing (Live)
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei New Focus Recordings am 11.12.2020
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Seven Responses
Klassik - Erschienen bei Innova am 03.02.2017
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Born
The Crossing, Donald Nally, James Reese, Rebecca Myers, Maren Montalbano, Dominic German
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Navona am 12.08.2022
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John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Holy Wind
Klassik - Erschienen bei Cantaloupe Music am 12.05.2017
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Zealot Canticles
Klassik - Erschienen bei Innova am 28.09.2018
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Ted Hearne: Sound from the Bench
The Crossing, Donald Nally, Taylor Levine, James Moore, Ron Wiltrout
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Cantaloupe Music am 24.03.2017
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The Crossing (feat. Jack De Salvo, Arthur Lipner, Bob Rodriguez, Todd Urban, Jon Berger)
Jazz - Erschienen bei Unseen Rain Records am 21.11.2014
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Voyages
The Crossing, Maren Montalbano, Daniel Taylor, Dimitri German, Donald Nally, Voyages String Ensemble
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Innova am 23.08.2019
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The Tower and the Garden
The Crossing, Donald Nally, Brandon Garbot, Adelya Nartadjieva, Jordan Bak, Arlen Hlusko
Klassik - Erschienen bei Navona am 12.02.2021
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Kile Smith: The Arc in the Sky
The Crossing, Donald Nally, Kate Avery, Dimitri German, Michael Jones, Elisa Sutherland
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Navona am 12.07.2019
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Gregory W. Brown: Moonstrung Air
Klassik - Erschienen bei Navona am 10.02.2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo