The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Crossing
Month of Moderns
2009 Grantee
$25,000
Chamber choir The Crossing received $25,000 to present its second “Month of Moderns,” a festival of contemporary choral music featuring three newly commissioned works by Lansing McLoskey, Paul Fowler, and 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang. All three compositions will be based on the words of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Philip Levine. Mr. McLoskey’s work will feature the impressive Mander organ of the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill; Mr. Fowler will compose a work for unaccompanied choir; and Mr. Lang’s work for choir and strings will be performed with the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.
The Crossing was founded in 2005 by Donald Nally and a group of singers with whom he worked in previous ensembles in Philadelphia and Italy. Their purpose is specifically to perform new and modern choral music, including works by James MacMillan, Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Herbert Howells, Bruno Bettinelli, and Gian Carlo Menotti. www.crossingchoir.com
The Crossing choir, photo by Mark Tassoni