Donald Nally, conductor
Experience What Belongs to Me?, a kaleidoscope of styles and ideas. Movements of David Lang’s poor hymnal bookend a program that features music written for the choir by former Carolina Performing Arts resident artist Shara Nova. The music reflects her focus on making the world a better place through our actions and art. Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body begins with a consideration of capitalism’s effects on our bodies and develops into a glaring affirmation of love:
My love, our time
on earth is made
of sunlight—and you,
beaming at me
golden.
And, Gabriela Ortiz’s raucous, exhilarating Tierra Parte 1, questions, with hope, the Earth’s ability to forgive us.
The thread is Nova’s music. Movements from her magnum opus Titration explore our trauma, grief, and the role of our vagal nerve in moving from anger, through imagination, to calmness. Nova’s final work, Resolve, is an unfettered riff on what’s possible, urging in profoundly rich, driving music: “Be not discouraged, do not fall into numbness. Resolve to increase your discomfort, and thus attain a calm body. Be curious of one another. Reap the reward, truth.”
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EVENT DETAILS
- Runtime: 75 minutes
- Intermission: No intermission
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PROGRAM
| poor hymnal (2023) | David Lang | |
| mvt. 9. what is mine? | ||
| Titration (2022) | Shara Nova | |
| mvt. 5. How Do I Keep On Feelin' In This Mean, Mean World? mvt. 3. What's The Vibe, Vagus? mvt. 4. Titration 1 | ||
| Tierra Parter1: The Earth is not her name (2022) | Gabriela Ortiz | |
| Titration | Nova | |
| mvt. 14. I'm So Mad I Could Spit Nails | ||
| Infinite Body (2023) | Ayanna Woods | |
| 1. Infinite Growth 2. One Body 3. Do Be Do 4. Golden Hour | ||
| Titration | Nova | |
| mvt. 11. Imagine A Favorite Place | ||
| Carols after a Plague (2021) | Nova | |
| mvt. 3. Resolve | ||
| poor hymnal | Lang | |
| mvt. 4. all who are hungry | ||
FEATURED ARTISTS
Walter Aldrich
Nathaniel Barnett
Jessica Beebe
Kelly Ann Bixby
Karen Blanchard
Aryssa Burrs
Matthew Cramer
Micah Dingler
Hannah Dixon McConnell
Sam Grosby
Michael Hawes
Michaёl Hudetz
Steven Hyder
Lauren Kelly
Zachary Kurzenberger
Anika Kildegaard
Chelsea Lyons
Andrew Major
Victoria Marshall
Maren Montalbano
Daniel O’Dea
Olivia Prendergast
Rebecca Siler
Daniel Taylor
Donald Nally, conductor
Kevin Vondrak, associate conductor
Naomi Bennett, artistic associate
Charles Foster, collaborative keyboards
Shannon McMahon, managing director
Paul Vazquez, sound designer
ABOUT THE CROSSING
The Crossing is a GRAMMY® Award-winning chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. Committed to collaborating with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir, The Crossing has issued 33 releases, receiving three GRAMMY® Awards for Best Choral Performance (2018, 2019, 2023), and nine Grammy nominations, including in 2024. The Crossing collaborates with some of the world’s leading composers, ensembles, artists, venues, and presenters – with performances at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston, the Park Avenue Armory, Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, National Sawdust, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Haarlem Choral Biennale in the Netherlands, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, and at many universities. The Crossing is represented by Alliance Artist Management.
ABOUT DONALD NALLY
Donald Nally is responsible for imagining, programming, commissioning, and conducting at The Crossing. He collaborates with composers, creative artists, leading orchestras, and art museums, and has commissioned over 180 works. With The Crossing, he has produced over thirty recordings, winning three GRAMMY® Awards for Best Choral Performance. Nally has held distinguished tenures as chorus master for Lyric Opera of Chicago, Welsh National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and for many seasons at Il festival dei due mondi in Spoleto, Italy.
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