The Crossing

The Month of Moderns 2026 has officially begun! We had a blast singing in Center City at underneath the vibrant, stained glass-inspired fabric banner installation “Freedom Is…” by — also commissioned by our concert presenter for the “What Now?” Festival.

One more chance to catch this program, today (Sunday) at 5pm at our home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. Pre-concert talk with Donald at 4pm in the Chapel.


Video 1: “Bound” by
Video 2: “Rigwreck” by

Sights/sounds from ’s epic new piece “Boy Drawing a Lady With Trademarks for Eyes and Copyright-Scented Hair” with the amazing on drum kit. We are loving Nicole’s sound world and groove!

Hear the world premiere, this weekend in Philadelphia at The Month of Moderns, presented by “What Now” festival. Tickets at link in bio.

Saturday June 6 (5pm) at Broad Street Love, Center City
&
Sunday June 7 (5pm) at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill

Boy Drawing a Lady With Trademarks for Eyes and Copyright-Scented Hair is commissioned by The Crossing and Donald Nally, and

“Girl drawing a boy drawing a lady drawing a trespasser drawing a rat with a smile
Redacted. 
But with…
Lies, lies
Libraries for teeth and copyright-scented hair
and panopticon eyes holding a rat drawing a
Girl drawing a boy drawing a lady drawing a lady…”

Dito is gone. There is and was only one Dito, and we join the arts community of Philadelphia and far beyond in grieving the loss of a superstar, a deeply gifted artist, a profoundly funny human, and a friend to anyone who ever met him. We were the fortunate planets in his orbit when he joined The Crossing for Knee Plays in 2020 at , taking that show from an idea to a meaningful, playful, rich experience for us and everyone who was there. Love abounded then; love abounds today, though in sadness. Thank you, Dito, Martha, friend, forever opening our eyes.

We had a blast today at , where we came together with Dr. Jay Fluellen’s (.jay) vocal class Solfèggio and the team from for an engaging afternoon about careers in music. It was a great chance for singers from The Crossing to share their experience with young music students and exchange singing for one another!

Join The Crossing and The Philadelphia Orchestra at Highmark Mann Center for Performing Arts this June 17th for “A Hundred Years On” by Peter Boyer. Tickets at link in bio.

How often do we get to look back at ‘what composers write when they write for us?’ Not often.
To celebrate America @ 250, presents that opportunity, and we embrace it in two programs that capture our primary goal:
singing the stories of our time, as told by our most creative compositional voices,
all commissioned by us and first sung in Philadelphia!

The Month of Moderns: Building a Contemporary Canon
presented as part of ArtPhilly’s What Now: 2026 Festival

June 6-7, 27-28 in Philadelphia
New music by and
w/ works from our social justice commissions and Philadelphia composer friends

Visit the link in our bio for info and tickets.

Our season art is by Caroline Bergstrøm Scheibel.

Rigwreck
music of Gabriel Jackson

Our 40th Album
Even we, in the fishbowl, looking out, can see that’s remarkable.

We would enjoy lingering on that milestone.

But we cannot.
Because, this album deserves far greater attention than the (some may say) considerable accomplishment of Forty Albums Forming a Canon.

The album is Rigwreck.
The composer is Gabriel Jackson.
The relationship began with our inaugural concert, on which we sang his Prayer. And it has continued, uninterrupted, for 22 years, five commissions, many visits, many dreams, and many of those dreams realized.

How fortunate we are to have these long relationships with composers who come to know us better and better, who listen to us and dig deep into the well of possibilities of what can happen when 24 singers with extraordinary focus get together to bring a new work to life.

Listen now at the link in our bio.
(We have a limited stock of CDs available in our webstore, too!)


Album art by Rita Quattrocchi

See you tomorrow in New York!

Infinite Body

 
Infinite Body, a program of three works that remind us of our humanity.
Tania León. Wang Lu. Ayanna Woods.
Deep thinkers. Creative innovators. Direct Communicators.

With Claire Chase ()
Her collaboration is a gift.
A reminder of what humans can achieve.

Stories of our Time.
Delivered with Candor, and Hope.
Spring is here. Are we ready?

Zankel Hall
7.30pm Tuesday March 24

This is going to be fun.

This Carnegie Hall concert wraps up our Infinite Body tour, with stops at in Hershey, PA and in Philadelphia, presented by . Many thanks to our collaborators for making us feel welcome, bringing in great crowds, and supporting new music for choirs!
composer

This week,we bring Harold Meltzer’s last major work, You are Who I Love, to Stanford University for its West Coast Premiere…and our Bay Area debut! The work, with 100 percussion instruments (!) played masterfully by , takes us on a moving and intimate journey of the daily lives of immigrants.

You who the borders crossed
You whose fires
You decent with rage, so in love with the earth
You writing poems alongside children

Also on the program are works of Sarah Rimkus (whose Babylon captures the wandering and challenges of people in a strange land) and Ēriks Ešenvalds (whose Earth Teach Me Quiet celebrates our relationship to and wonder at nature). This is such a rich program – musically, topically, emotionally.

Wednesday, February 25 @ 7:30pm PST
preconcert talk with poet Aracelis Girmay and Donald at 6:45pm

Bing Concert Hall,
327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA

Tap the link in our bio for tickets.