Month of Moderns II: works for choir and organ
            featuring our resident organist, Scott Dettra

In Concert at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill - Directions
Friday July 9, 8pm

The Levine Project’s second premiere is by Florida composer Lansing McLoskey, an eclectic personality with a deep interest in Medieval and Renaissance music (as well as his own skate board company).  McLoskey studied with Bo Holten, and his texture-oriented language gives the illusion there is something to be found just under the surface of the music.  This new work, for organ and choir, will be complemented by the soaring, longing, Howells-inspired lines of British composer Francis Pott’s Love Unknown; a rather taut, restrained and introspective motet of Crossing favorite James MacMillan (on a prayer of Padre Pio); and Tarik O’Regan’s calm, knowing I saw him standing (on Archbishop Rowan Williams’ poem).  Gabriel Jackson’s Now I have known, O Lord, on a prayer of awe and wonder by 10th-c. poet Al-Junaied employs an exotic scale and evolving textures to envelope the listener, creating the feeling we are both within and without of the music itself.

Don’t miss: Tarik O’Regan’s Tryptych on the previous concert (June 27) and James MacMillan’s Sun Dogs on the following (July 17). 

Program - Tickets
Francis Pott: Love Unknown, for organ and choir (2002)
Kamran Ince:  Gloria (Everywhere) (2005)
Levine Project:  Lansing McLoskey, for organ and choir (commissioned premiere)
James MacMillan: Padre Pio’s Prayer, for organ and choir (2008)
Gabriel Jackson: Now I have known, O Lord (2006)
Tarik O’Regan:  I saw him standing (2003)

This project has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the
Philadelphia Music Project.