The Crossing

Donald Nally, conductor

Scott Dettra, organ 

 

Friday, December 21, 2012  8:00 PM

St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Chestnut Hill

Music of Tavener, Esenvalds, Jennefelt, Holten, Primosch, Dove

 

The Crossing @ Christmas 2011 was performed to a sold-out at St. Paul’s Church and a tradition was born.  The Philadelphia Inquirer called it “mesmerizing” and noted the warmth of the candlelit atmosphere – singers and audience shared in a uniquely beautiful holiday event.  Join us this season for a program of the greatest contemporary music inspired by the Nativity.  Purchase tickets here.

 

Come. Hear. Now.

 

O do not move: a miniature Ikon of the Nativity (1990)  John Tavener

Stars (2012)                                                            Ēriks Ešenvalds

spiralling ecstatically (1998/2007)                 James Primosch

Canticum Mariae Virginis (1978)                     Einojuhani Rautavaara

First Snow (1996)                                        Bo Holten

i.      First Snow

ii.     Hermit Peak

Mother and Child (2002)                               Tavener

 

Improvisation on Divinum mysterium               Scott Dettra

Music for a Big Church; for Tranquility (1990)  Thomas Jennefelt

Chorale Prelude on “Silent Night,” from Die Natali, op. 37 (1960) Samuel Barber

Of a rose (1998)                                            Ingram Marshall

Epiphany (1996)                                           Judith Bingham

The Three Kings (2000)                                  Jonathan Dove

What child is this (1991/2007)                        Andrew Gant

O salutaris (2009)                                          Ešenvalds

Stars  (Reprise)                                              Ešenvalds

 

"impressive, lush, mesmerizing..."

      - New York Times, September 2011