Nunc Dimittis from "Collegium Regale" (1947)
Herbert Howells

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

Recorded live May 9, 2014 by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services — digitalmissiononline.com

Nunc Dimittis, Collegium Regale (Howells) *2014 live performance*

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

This concert broadcast is available through Sunday, August 2

THE MONTH OF MODERNS 2: 2017
music by Dai Fujikura, Stratis Minakakis, and Gregory W. Brown

[0:00] Introduction by Donald Nally
[1:50] Zawazawa
	music by Dai Fujikura
	words by Harry Ross
[20:21] Crossings Cycle
	music by Efstratio Minakakis
	words by T.S. Eliot, Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides
[44:27] un/bodying/s
	music by Gregory Brown
	words by Todd Hearon 

recorded live in concert June 24, 2017 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA

Zawazawa was commissioned by The Crossing and Tokyo Philharmonic Choir
Crossings Cycle was commissioned by The Crossing
un/bodying/s was commissioned by The Crossing

special thanks to Joe Patti, Tyler McClure, and the Team at WRTI: 90.1 FM Philadelphia’s Classical and Jazz Public Radio

Crossings Cycle and un/bodying/s are available on the studio recording "If There Were Water" available at
https://www.crossingchoir.org/merch-admin/if-there-were-water

The Crossing’s concerts are recorded by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services @ www.soundbetter.com/profiles/671-pa…-audio-services

header art – "Empire" by Christopher St. John @ www.christophermichaelstjohn.com/

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The Month of Moderns 2: 2017, WRTI concert broadcast hosted by Donald Nally – The Crossing

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

SEVEN RESPONSES: Concert 2
with the International Contemporary Ensemble
music by Lewis Spratlan, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, and Santa Ratniece

view the concert program, with texts, at https://files.constantcontact.com/fd596809001/4ade0cf6-e5a0-4c61-b97d-bca9727d3e65.pdf

[0:00] Introduction by Donald Nally

[1:24] Common Ground
	music by Lewis Spratlan
	words by Paul Kane, written for Common Ground

[22:19] Ad cor
	music by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
	words by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen) 
		and from the Old Testament

[36:43] My soul will sink within me
	music by Santa Ratniece
	words from letters of St. Clare of Assisi to St. Agnes of Prague

recorded live in concert June 25, 2016 
at The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral 

All three works were commissioned by The Crossing and Donald Nally for Seven Responses.
My soul will sink within me was commissioned through a gift from board member Eric Owens. 
Seven Responses was made possible in part through a generous gift of an anonymous donor. 

special thanks to Joe Patti, Tyler McClure, and the Team at WRTI: 90.1 FM Philadelphia’s Classical and Jazz Public Radio

 all works heard on this program are available 
on the studio recording "Seven Responses" at https://www.crossingchoir.org/merch-admin/seven-responses-cd-pre-sale

The Crossing’s concerts are recorded by Paul Vazquez 
of Digital Mission Audio Services @ https://soundbetter.com/profiles/671-paul-vazquez---digital-mission-audio-services

header art – "In The Woods By Seattle" by Christopher St. John @ www.christophermichaelstjohn.com/

Seven Responses: Part 2, WRTI concert broadcast hosted by Donald Nally – The Crossing

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

My Hand in Yours, So 

music by Robert Convery 
words of Hart Crane’s “Cape Hatteras” from The Bridge
recorded in concert March 30, 2019 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
with Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet
audio by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services 
"My Hand in Yours, So" was commissioned by Steven Hyder and Donald Nally for The Crossing in memory of Joseph Flummerfelt
art – "Two Hand Blues" by Christopher St. John


*  *  *

And now, as launched in abysmal cupolas of space,
Toward endless terminals, Easters of speeding light —
Vast engines outward veering with seraphic grace
On clarion cylinders pass out of sight
To course that span of consciousness thou'st named
The Open Road — thy vision is reclaimed!
What heritage thou'st signalled to our hands!

And see! the rainbow's arch — how shimmeringly stands
Above the Cape's ghoul-mound, O joyous seer!
Recorders ages hence, yes, they shall hear
In their own veins uncancelled thy sure tread
And read thee by the aureole 'round thy head
Of pasture-shine, Panis Angelicus !
                                          	yes, 
Afoot again, and onward without halt, —
Not soon, nor suddenly, — no, never to let go
         	My hand
                   	in yours,
                           	so —

My Hand In Yours, So (Bob Convery) – The Crossing (live, 2019)

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

Love bade me welcome
from "Two Human Hymns"

music by Judith Weir
words by George Herbert
with Scott Dettra, organ
recorded live in concert September 8, 2006 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
audio by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services
header art – "Troubadour" by Christopher St. John

*  *  *

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, 
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?

Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.
And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?
My dear, then will I serve.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.

Chestnut Hill 9-9-06

Love bade me welcome (Judith Weir) – The Crossing (live, 2006)

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

Dear World
a Jeff Quartet

music by Lansing D. McLoskey 
words by poem by Poul Borum 
translated by Lansing D. McLoskey, with assistance from Peter Borum
	Used with permission of Gyldendal Group Agency.
	English translation © 2011, Lansing D. McLoskey.
recorded live in concert July 8, 2016 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
at the premiere of Jeff Quartets, celebrating the life and work of Jeffrey Dinsmore
audio by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services
header art – "Night Trains" by Christopher St. John

*  *  *

Dear world!
...but no one helps here, dear world.
Each must stand firm in this useless decay.

there is a forest which isn’t a forest
just a collection of trees,
they call them “The Trees of the Lonely.”

dear world!
there was so much I should have told you.

Dear World (Lansing McLoskey) – The Crossing (live, 2016)

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

According to Seneca

music by Gabriel Jackson
words by Gustaf Sobin
recorded live in concert October 18, 2015 at Reprise 1: a concert of past commissions, at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
originally written for and premiered at The Month of Moderns 2011: Seneca Sounds
audio by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services
art – "Golden Harvesters" by Christopher St. John

*  *  *

... every wind, according to
Seneca, has
its
origins in some deepseated stellar configuration. once, every
word, its every

blown
vocable, came rippling out of an else-

where that
was. edge, then, towards what? you, who’d
scraped pebbles, goaded
shadows, hover,
now, in the

coves of imploded
al-
lusion. here, where even the air, this morning, lies as if
im-
pacted, yes, in so
many exhausted particles, would

feed yourself, wouldn’t you, to
the
slightest interstice, oversight, pry free of
your own, inexorable

replication. for just beyond would lie the
bars,
chords, the
sonorous reefs of
some suggested passage. whisper, then. yes,

murmur the
wavering blue line of that
taut,
tenuous horizon: ‘wind,’ ‘waves,’ ‘whitecaps,’
what, in

themselves, meant nothing, whereas nothing, you
knew, without them (burst,
pulverized) could
possibly
mean.

According To Seneca (Gabriel Jackson) – The Crossing (live, 2015)

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

Mother and Child

music by John Tavener
words by Brian Keeble
with traditional Greek and Sanskrit
recorded live in concert at The Crossing @ Christmas, December 21, 2012 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill
with Scott Dettra, organ
and Michael Sparhuber, gong
audio by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services
art – "Pale Spring" by Christopher St. John



* * *


Enamoured of its gaze
The mother’s gaze in turn
Contrives a single beam of light
Along which love may move.

  Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! [wisdom!] Hail Maria!

Through seeing, through touch,
Through hearing the new-born heart
Conduits of being join.
 
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!

So is the image of heaven within
Started into life.
 
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!

As in the first (was) adoration
Another consciousness has come to praise
The single theophanic light
That threads all entrants here –
 
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!

This paradise where all is formed of love
As flame to flame is lit.
 
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!
  ATMA. [world soul.]
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!

Mother And Child (John Tavener) – The Crossing (live, 2012)

The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

Vale, dulcis amice
VI. from Six Mediaeval Lyrics

music by William Brooks
words from Peter Dronke, in Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric
from our 2011 recording, I want to live, recorded June 29-July 2, 2011 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, 
produced and recorded by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services
album artwork by Beth Haidle

Vale, dulcis amice, sine te procul hinc habiturus
Anxius abscedo, quia non cito sum rediturus.
Non discedo tamen totus, remanet quia tecum
Mens mea corque meum. Discedo vix ego mecum.

Farewell, sweet friend, without you far from here
I go, full of care, for I cannot easily return.
Yet I do not depart completely, for there remains with you
My mind and my heart. I take with me hardly any part of me.


The Crossing

Kelly Ann Bixby
Karen Blanchard 
Maren Montalbano Brehm 
Veronica Chapman-Smith 
Anne Fuchs
Joanna Gates
Amanda Heisler
Nina Heebink
Lisa Juzwak
Heidi Kurtz 
Rebecca Siler 
Karen Wapner
Erin Westmaas
Shari Wilson 

John Grecia and Laura Ward, rehearsal accompanists 
Donald Nally, conductor

Vale, dulcis amice (William Brooks) – The Crossing (2011)

The Crossing is a Grammy Award-winning professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. It is committed to working with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir – most often addressing social issues – with the possibility of changing the way we think about writing for choir, singing in choir, and listening to music for choir. Many of its over seventy commissioned premieres address social, environmental, and political issues.

Highly sought-after for collaborative projects, The Crossing’s first such partnership was as the resident choir of the Spoleto Festival in Italy, in 2007. Since then, collaborators include the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), American Composers Orchestra, Network for New Music, Lyric Fest, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Beth Morrison Projects, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Mostly Mozart Festival, National Gallery of Art, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum, Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, and Northwestern University. The Crossing holds an annual residency at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana. 

With a commitment to recording its commissions, The Crossing has issued 15 releases, receiving two Grammy Awards and three nominations in as many years. The Crossing, with Donald Nally, is the American Composers Forum’s 2017 Champion of New Music. They are the recipients of the 2015 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, and the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America.

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