The Crossing

05/26/2026

05/26/2026

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.

04/24/2026

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

03/26/2026

03/24/2026

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

03/21/2026

… until the day gave out: you know
that way the sky has of dangling
her last bright wisps? That’s when
the ache would bloom inside
until I couldn’t wait; I knelt down
to scrape myself clean
and didn’t care who heard.
Then came the shouts and whistles,
the roundup into jars, a clamber of legs.
— Rita Dove, “The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude” as heard in Tania León’s “Singsong”

Join us and this weekend:
3/21, 5pm
3/22, 4pm
3/24, 7pm

03/19/2026

VISITING FACULTY APPOINTMENT: At the end of this academic year, William Weinert—Eastman School of Music's professor of conducting & ensembles and director of choral activities—will retire, after serving our students for three joyful decades. Looking ahead to 2026-27, Eastman is pleased to name Donald Nally as visiting professor of conducting & ensembles and interim director of choral activities. (A search for a permanent professor will take place in fall 2026.)

“We are delighted to welcome Donald to Eastman for the 2026-27 academic year. I know our students and community will benefit from his experience and artistry,” shares Dean Kate Sheeran.

Nally is the John W. Beattie Chair of Music Emeritus at Northwestern University, currently serving as visiting professor of choral studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and visiting professor at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he has commissioned over 200 works as conductor of the four-time GRAMMY winning choir The Crossing.

Learn more about Nally's appointment at the link below:

Eastman announces that Donald Nally has been named visiting professor of conducting & ensembles and interim director of choral activities for the 2026-2027 academic year.

03/17/2026

The Crossing returns to Carnegie Hall, singing music of Tania León, Ayanna Woods, and Wang Lu, with flute virtuoso Claire Chase.

Tuesday, March 24 at 7:30pm | Zankel Hall

We revisit Rita Dove’s hard-edged, raw “cricket poems” in Tania León’s endlessly inventive Singsong, which dances its way through a journey of Black singers from pre-slavery to today. Wang Lu’s At Which Point boldly explores the fragility and emptiness of grief found in poet Forrest Gander’s world of those “left behind.” Finally, Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body, a co-commission of Carnegie Hall and The Crossing, explores how capitalism influences our relationship to our bodies, peering through the lenses of the natural world, burnout culture, and embodiment, to observe and unsettle the notion of our separateness.

03/09/2026

We’re going back on the road.
And we’re bringing some of the most acclaimed composers of our time.
With the flute master, Claire Chase

Three performances:
• Saturday, March 21 in Hershey, PA
• Sunday, March 22 in Philadelphia
• Tuesday, March 24 at Carnegie Hall

A dialogue between kaleidoscopic choral colors and virtuosic flute inventions.
A feast of words from Pulitzer laureates Rita Dove and Forrest Gander.
A piece about raw grief.
A piece that dances its way through a history of Black singing and living.
A piece that looks at our self-perception through the lens of capitalism.
And in all of this, driving rhythm, rhythm, rhythm.

And the world was already old.
And I was older than I am today.



(Photographs from our past visits to Carnegie Hall, in 2024 and 2022; credit to Stephanie Berger and Kevin Vondrak, respectively.)

02/25/2026

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.