Month of Moderns III: works for unaccompanied choir

In Concert at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill - Directions
Saturday July 17, 8pm

The final new work in The Crossing’s Levine Project is by Colorado composer Paul Fowler.  Like McLoskey, Fowler’s inspirations are widely and wildly varied, incorporating Buddhist philosophy, jazz, and Native American themes into an exquisite, organic, musical whole.  We look back at our 2009 Celan Project with an encore performance of Kile Smith’s amazing Where flames a word (received with great acclaim at its premiere last June), as well a new work on Celan’s poetry, Norwegian composer Frank Havrøy’s intimate, fragile Psalm.  Villarosa Sarialdi , by Swedish composer Thomas Jennefelt, demonstrates Jennefelt’s ingenious use of voices as orchestral instruments, inventing a ‘language’ to produce the kaleidoscope of colors he imagines.  We sing colorful works of Americans Lansing McLoskey and Christopher Trapani, and the season’s opening – Eriks Esenvalds’ Sun Dogs – is bookended with the inventive and profound setting of texts on the same theme: James MacMillan’s Sun Dogs.

Don’t miss:  Eriks Esenvalds' Sun Dogs (January 3), Lansing McLoskey’s new work for The Levine Project (July 9) and James MacMillan’s Padre Pio’s Prayer (July 9).

Program - Tickets
James MacMillan: Sun-Dogs, for choir (2006)
Lansing McLoskey: Burning Chariots, for choir(2003)
Frank Havrøy: Psalm (2005)
Paul Fowler: Commissioned World Premiere; The Levine Project
Christopher Trapani:  O now the drenched land wakes, for choir (2006)
Thomas Jennefelt:  Villarosa Sarialdi (1997)
Encore performance: Kile Smith: Where flames a word (2009)

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