(Each performance is detailed below the list)
9/27/13 Fri - Nabucco - Opera Philadelphia
9/29/13 Sun(m) - Nabucco - Opera Philadelphia
10/2/13 Wed - Nabucco - Opera Philadelphia
10/4/13 Sun(m) - Nabucco - Opera Philadelphia
10/6/13 Fri - Nabucco - Opera Philadelphia
11/2/13 Sat - Brahms’ Requiem Benefit Concert - Philly Singers Chorale
11/9/13 Sat - Suoni provocamenti: Italian Voices- Crossing Choir
12/15/13 Sun - Christmas with The Philadelphia Singers - Philly Singers
12/20/13 Fri - Crossing @ Christmas - Crossing Choir
12/22/13 Sun - Astralis & The Little Match Girl Passion - Crossing Choir
2/7/14 Fri - Ainadamar - Opera Philadelphia
2/9/14 Sun(m) - Ainadamar - Opera Philadelphia
2/12/14 Wed - Ainadamar - Opera Philadelphia
2/14/14 Fri - Ainadamar - Opera Philadelphia
2/16/14 Sun(m) - Ainadamar - Opera Philadelphia
2/20/14 Thu - Carnegie Hall Debut - Crossing Choir
3/5/14 Wed - Dialogues of the Carmelites - Curtis Opera Theatre
3/7/14 Fri - Dialogues of the Carmelites - Curtis Opera Theatre
3/9/14 Sun(m) - Dialogues of the Carmelites - Curtis Opera Theatre
4/25/14 Fri - Don Giovanni - Opera Philadelphia
4/27/14 Sun(m) - Don Giovanni - Opera Philadelphia
4/30/14 Wed - Don Giovanni - Opera Philadelphia
5/2/14 Fri - Don Giovanni - Opera Philadelphia
5/4/14 Sun(m) - Don Giovanni - Opera Philadelphia
5/18/14 Sun - Mozart + Schubert - Philly Singers
6/4/14 Sat - Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Day - Opera Philadelphia
6/13/14 Fri - Eric Whitacre and The Crossing - Crossing Choir
6/15/14 Sun - MoM I: Ted Hearne world premiere - Crossing Choir
6/28/14 Sun - MoM II: Composers Composition - Crossing Choir
7/12/14 Sat - MoM III: Gavin Bryars world premiere - Crossing Choir
7/25/14 Fri - John Luther Adams's Sila: The Breath of the World - Crossing Choir
7/26/14 Sat - John Luther Adams's Sila: The Breath of the World - Crossing Choir
8/15/14 Fri - 2014 Mass of the Assumption - Mater Ecclesiae
Canticles of the Holy Wind
John Luther Adams
American premiere
THE CROSSING
Sunday, September 15, 2013 @ 4pm
The Icebox at Crane Arts
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA
A major work from the composer The New Yorker calls "one of the most original thinkers of the new century," Canticles of the Holy Wind is a multi-movement, concert-length work of breadth and depth. Co-commissioned by The Crossing and the Latvian choir Kamer, the work was acoustically designed for a space like Crane's Icebox, “an ideal tabula rasa for such ambitious collaborations” (Philadelphia Inquirer). The work expands The Crossing's body of projects that attempt bridges between nature and ourselves. In John Luther Adams' words, “My life’s work began with birds…”
www.crossingchoir.com
Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi
At the Academy of Music
OPERA PHILADELPHIA
Friday, September 27, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Estimated Running Time: Approximately three hours, including one 20-minute and one 15-minute intermission
Language: Performed in Italian with English supertitles
On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic struggle of Zaccaria and the Jews suppressed by Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his vengeful daughter, Abigaille. But to Italians fighting for their freedom from Austria, Verdi’s first great opera was an inspiring call to arms. In an unprecedented spectacle, Opera Philadelphia produces this beloved biblical tale with a slight twist: while the classical story unfolds on stage, 19th century opera goers join the modern day audience. The result? An exhilarating opera-within-an-opera as the Academy transforms into La Scala to thrill all involved, especially with “Va, pensiero (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves),” adopted as Italy’s unofficial national anthem shortly after Nabucco’s premiere. This galvanizing, must-see production pays royal tribute to Verdi's 200th birthday and the Year of Italian Culture in the United States.
www.operaphila.org
Brahms’ Requiem For Piano, Four Hands: A Benefit Concert for TPS
THE PHILADELPHIA SINGERS CHORALE
Saturday, November 2nd @ 8pm, Church of The Holy Trinity
To kick off the season, we invite you to join us for a special Benefit Concert courtesy of the American Guild of Musical Artists and our very own Chorale. This concert will feature Brahms’ requiem in the composer’s own reduction for two pianos.
www.philadelphiasingers.org
Suoni provocamenti: Italian Voices
Bruno Bettinelli & Salvatore Sciarrino
THE CROSSING
Saturday, November 9, 2013 @ 8pm
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
8855 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA
“Refined and considered....with a passionate spirituality” – that’s how the Philadelphia Inquirer describes the musical world of Bruno Bettinelli – youthful and romantic, yet written in the composer’s eighties, these madrigals navigate all emotions and speak to all listeners. To balance, we introduce Salvatore Sciarrino’s music, which combines the expressionistic influence of Berio with modern minimalism.
And to conclude, the insightful words of revered Italian poets Michelangelo and Leopardi are heard in settings by Stephen Paulus and Yehuda Yannay respectively.
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Christmas with The Philadelphia Singers
THE PHILADELPHIA SINGERS
Sunday, December 15th @3pm, The Cathedral Basilica
No holiday season is complete without our Christmas on Logan Square concert! This year’s theme is “Christmas Across America” featuring Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium and Susa’s Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest.
www.philadelphiasingers.org
Crossing @ Christmas
Astralis of Wolfgang Rihm
works of Toivo Tulev and Gabriel Jackson on the nativity
with David Manley, guitar and Thomas Mesa, cello
THE CROSSING
Friday, December 20, 2013 @ 8pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Chestnut Hill
The Crossing @ Christmas has played to sold-out audiences since its revival in 2011. A unique perspective in the plethora of holiday concerts, the carefully-chosen, contemplative works of spirituality ponder our relationship with our deities, in a candle-lit calm of warmth and gratitude. We introduce Wolfgang Rihm with his vast, meditative Astralis – based on Novalis’ poem of hope and sorrow. Works of Gabriel Jackson, Toivo Tulev, Eriks Esenvalds, and other Crossing favorites will round out this Holiday Concert Event!
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Astralis of Wolfgang Rihm
David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion
with Thomas Mesa, cello
THE CROSSING
Sunday, December 22, 2013 @ 6pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
We return to the Met, after the New York Times’ suggestion that our concert become “a holiday tradition,” reprising Lang’s Pulitzer-winning work along with Rihm’s expansive, thoughtful Astralis.
www.crossingchoir.com
Ainadamar
Osvaldo Golijov
At the Academy of Music
OPERA PHILADELPHIA
Friday, February 7, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Friday, February 14, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Estimated Running Time:Approximately 80 minutes with no intermission
Language: Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
Famed poet and playwright Federico García Lorca now stands as one of Spain’s greatest icons. But in 1936, he found himself standing in front of the firing squad at Ainadamar (“fountain of tears” in Arabic)—quite literally caught in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. In a series of rousing flashbacks, Lorca’s muse and lover Margarita Xirgu conjures up his controversial life and defiant death in this stunning production. With Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s Grammy Award-winning flamenco- and rumba-infused score, Ainadamar delivers a dreamlike passion play complete with everything from bullfighting and bravado to the artist’s struggle for love and free expression.
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Carnegie Hall Debut
with the American Composers Orchestra
George Manahan and Donald Nally, conductors
David Lang, Statement to the Court
Ted Hearne, Ripple
Amy Kirsten, Strange Pilgrims
THE CROSSING
Thursday, February 20, 2014 @ 7:30pm
Zankel Hall @ Carnegie Hall
A new work from Amy Kirsten will lead off this program featuring a work commissioned by The Crossing from Pulitzer laureate David Lang. His Statement to the Court set Eugene Debs’ iconic, socialist speech on being convicted of sedition. Another work of social relevance, Ted Hearne’s Ripple, based on a single, tragic sentence from the Iraq War Logs, completes this first collaboration with the American Composers Orchestra and our Carnegie debut.
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Dialogues of the Carmelites
Francis Poulenc
Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
300 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
CURTIS OPERA THEATRE
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 7, 2014 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.
Estimated Running Time: Approximately three hours and 15 minutes, including two intermissions
Language: Performed in French with English supertitles
No one is immune from France’s Reign of Terror—not even a humble order of Carmelite nuns. Seized by revolutionary fervor, the country takes over the convent and condemns all of the sisters to death. Blanche, the terrified daughter of the wealthy Marquise de la Force and who recently joined the order, has the chance to escape with her life. But what would that mean for her soul? Uniquely staged to ramp up the charging drama until its riveting final act, Poulenc’s powerful, emotionally challenging 1957 opera inspired by historical events is a tale of terror, sisterhood, and inner strength.
Curtis Opera Theatre
Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
At the Academy of Music
OPERA PHILADELPHIA
Friday, April 25, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Friday, May 2, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 2:30 pm
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: Approximately three hours including one 20-minute intermission
Language: Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Who was that masked man? As the legendary rake Don Juan leaves a trail of jilted lovers and mayhem in his wake, Mozart’s alternately mischievous and harrowing masterpiece of mistaken identity reveals the charmer’s darkest side. With an ingeniously playful staging of masquerades, trapdoors and mirrored panels, witness the genre's most infamous scoundrel in this timeless classic of comedy and tragedy. A cadre of the most prestigious alumni of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Academy of Vocal Arts come home to star in this lavish production.
www.operaphila.org
Mozart + Schubert
THE PHILADELPHIA SINGERS
Sunday, May 18th @ 3pm, The Cathedral Basilica
Join us for Mozart’s ever-popular Solemn Vespers and Schubert’s Mass in A-Flat accompanied by Symphony in C!
www.philadelphiasingers.org
Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Day
OPERA PHILADELPHIA
Saturday, June 7, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall
...the four hour marathon of organ music kicks off at noon with Dr. Steven Ball performing the silent movie, The Goat, followed by a two part members recital by the American Guild of Organists. Additional highlights include Michael Barone of Pipedreams gliding through a program of the Colors of the Organ, a performance by the New City Brass Ensemble, jazz improvisation on organ featuring Lucas Brown, Thomas Sheehan performing with 60 talented singers from Opera Philadelphia, and Dr. Steven Ball concluding the program with Sherlock Jr. silent film accompanied by organ.
http://www.kimmelcenter.org/news/?id=525
Eric Whitacre, Charles Anthony Silvestri, and The Crossing
THE CROSSING
Friday June 13th 2014, 6pm
Millennium Stage, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, Washington DC, United States
Superstar choral composer and conductor Eric Whitacre comes together with poet and lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri and The Crossing for a live event and webcast filled with music and inspiration. This hour-long session features a presentation by Whitacre about his work with the Virtual Choir, insights by Silvestri about his lyrics for Sleep, and a performance by The Crossing, the Philadelphia-based professional chamber choir known as a champion for new music. The event concludes with a performance of the Whitacre/Silvestri collaborations Sleep and Lux Aurumque. Sleep features a multimedia presentation of the art of Anne Horjus as seen in the children’s book based on this choral classic. The performance combines choirs on stage at the Kennedy Center with thousands of additional voices online; webcast technology virtually links these voices together. Part of Voices of Our Nation: Celebrating the Choral Tradition.
Live Broadcast
Month of Moderns I: Ted Hearne world premiere
A new work on a text by Jena Osman
THE CROSSING
Sunday, June 15, 2014 @ 4pm
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
8855 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA
Pew Fellow and Philadelphian Jena Osman has constructed a text based on the Citizens United Supreme Court case, addressing the infamous decision establishing “corporate personhood.” Ted Hearne is bringing his personal, unique, and emotion-packed musical language to the topic in what is bound to be a dramatic journey; his music is strong and provocative and lingers with us long after the notes have left the air.
www.crossingchoir.com
Month of Moderns II: Crossing-Knight Foundation Composers Composition
three new works designed for the IceBox at Crane Arts Center
THE CROSSING
Saturday, June 28, 2014 @ 7pm
The Icebox at Crane Arts
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA
We take a new direction as we perform works by the winners of our composition contest, designed specifically for the Icebox and its marvelous secular-cathedral acoustic. The concert is sure to unveil brilliant discoveries from our composers and singers alike.
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Month of Moderns III: Gavin Bryars world premiere
with PRISM Saxophone Quartet
THE CROSSING
Saturday, July 12, 2014 @ 7pm
The Icebox at Crane Arts
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA
We’ve waited a long time and with much anticipation for this meeting of minds – our internationally-recognized friends at PRISM will join us in a work created for this collaboration by one of the world’s most familiar composing names, Gavin Bryars. Known for evocative texts in sparse, pensive settings, Bryars' music has been described as “both uplifting and emotionally draining in equal measure.” (The Guardian)
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John Luther Adams's Sila: The Breath of the World (World Premiere)
THE CROSSING
Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 6pm
Saturday, July 26, 2014 @ 6pm
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Hearst Plaza
Composer: John Luther Adams
Musical Director: Doug Perkins
Choreography: Mark DeChiazza
Featuring members of Contemporaneous, The Crossing, eighth blackbird, Face the Music, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, Hotel Elefant, JACK Quartet, Meehan/Perkins Duo, Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, TIGUE, and TILT Brass
Following this Alaska-based, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s acclaimed Inuksuit, this site-determined piece flows from Adams’ ongoing engagement with sound in outdoor space. Inspired by the Inuit concept of sila, the spirit that animates the world, 80 leading contemporary musicians are guided by the pace of their own breaths, blending composition and sonic environment into an expansive and immersive listening experience.
Pre-concert discussion with John Luther Adams and John Schaefer on July 26 at 4:00 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
http://lcoutofdoors.org/events/sila-the-breath-of-the-world
Mass of the Assumption - Mater Ecclesiae
Friday, August 15th @ 7PM
Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
18th St. and the Benjamin Franklin Pkwy in Philadelphia
Fr. Robert C Pasley, KCHS, Rector of Mater Ecclesiae Roman Catholic Church, Berlin, NJ, Diocese of Camden, invites all to Mater Ecclesiae’s 14th Annual Assumption Mass. The Solemn High Choral Mass in the Extraordinary Form will take place on Friday, August 15, at 7 p.m., at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 18th St. and the Benjamin Franklin Pkwy in Philadelphia. There is parking in the lot next to the Cathedral and there is an underground garage at the Sheraton Hotel on 17th Street.
The Celebrant of the Mass, who will also deliver the sermon, is Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth. Msgr. Wadsworth, originally a priest of the Diocese of Westminster, London, is now the superior of the Oratorian Community of St Philip Neri, an oratory in formation in the Archdiocese of Washington. Since 2009, he has been Executive Director of the International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL), responsible for the proposal of English translations of Latin liturgical texts for use in places where the liturgy is celebrated in English. Msgr. Wadsworth has written and lectured widely on both forms of the Roman Rite and the ‘ars celebrandi’.
Mater Ecclesiae’s High Choral Mass of the Assumption was begun fourteen years ago to thank and honor Our Lady for the establishment of Mater Ecclesiae, the first diocesan owned and staffed Traditional Latin Mass parish in the United Sates. “We wanted to feature some of the greatest works of orchestral/choral music ever written for the Sacred Liturgy,” Father Pasley said.
The setting of the Ordinary of the Mass will be the “Missa in Angustiis” or “Lord Nelson Mass” by Franz Joseph Haydn sung with full orchestra. Other works include the motets “Salve Regina” by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), “Salutatio D.N.I.C.” by Ludwig Senfl (1486-1543), “Beata Viscera” by Gregor Aichinger (1565-1628), the “Adagio” from Concerto for 2 Oboes in G Major, by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), The “Hodie Maria Virgo” by Luca Marenzio (1553-1599), the Tantum Ergo” by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) and a Postlude, “Concerto for 2 trumpets in D Major,” by Giuseppe Maria Jacchini (1663-1727). The traditional hymns, “O Sanctissima and Hail Holy Queen,” arranged by the Music Director Dr. Timothy McDonnell, will also be sung.
Father Pasley said “We wish to thank His Excellency, Archbishop Chaput, as well as the rector of the Cathedral, Father Dennis Gill, for this great privilege. Please spread the word about this most grand celebration of Our Lady’s Assumption.”
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