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Gene Coleman: The GulfSanta Ratniece: Chu DalTamar Diesendruck: Other Floods
Philadelphia composer Gene Coleman’s musical language is at times experimental, at other times minimal, often drawing on Japanese influences, improvisation, extended techniques, and Gene’s interest in architecture and structure to create a rich and unique sound world.
Young composer Santa Ratniece has recently become the most important female composer in Latvia, creating some of the richest landscapes in choral music. Her works describe the deepest lakes, the bluest skies, the quietest plains in a kaleidoscope of sounds that both connects us to the subject and magnifies our distance from it.
Composer Tamar Diesendruck offers a transparent view of deconstructionism. Her setting of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s brief words moves from a fragmented landscape to a lush harmonic fullness as the words themselves fall together to reveal, ”I am illumined by immensity.”
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Saturday, June 15, 2013, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
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Chris Jonas: The Gulf Santa Ratniece: Horo Horo Hata Hata Justé Janulyté: aguarelle
The Gulf (between you and me) continues with the musical world of Santa Fe composer Chris Jonas in a work that offers a musical language different from any The Crossing has yet sung. This is a collaborative work with graphics created by Philadelphia artist Dan Cole projected on the 100’ x 25’ foot great wall of the IceBox, intended to be heard in the magnificent acoustic of this modern secular cathedral; we celebrate this wonderful performance venue in the first of four programs to be heard over the next two seasons.
Also, chosen specifically for this acoustic is Ratniece’s captivating, fantastic Horo Horo Hata Hata – a work in which strange prayer chants of the Ainu tribe mingle with bird calls and the sounds of wild animals – and Lithuanian composer Justé Janulyté’s aquarelle – a monochromatic study suited perfectly to The Crossing’s signature attention to tuning and texture.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Month of Moderns IIIAt the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut HillGabriel Jackson: The Gulf (world premiere)Santa Ratniece: Saline (Salt Lakes, 2006)John Cage: Four 2 (1992)
After his visit during MoM 2011, the singers of The Crossing were so enamored of British composer Gabriel Jackson that we set about engaging this internationally-recognized composer for a very special event. Gabriel will compose the third and final installment of Pierre Joris’s poem cycle for The Gulf (between you and me); this promises to be an important evening for The Crossing, as we sing in Gabriel’s thoroughly engaging musical language..
To round out our introduction of Santa Ratniece’s work, Saline sonically explores the depths and thoughts of a great salt lake; her expansive compositional mind offers an unimaginably creative, emotional description. And, finally, the season closes as we began, with a late work of great beauty by that controversial patriarch of modern and postmodern music, John Cage.
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Sunday, June 30, 2013, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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