Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe and Donald during rehearsals for Anonymous Man

Join us for a Month of Moderns Radio Broadcast

This Sunday at 3pm

Anonymous Man by Michael Gordon
world premiere

This broadcast features the world premiere of  Anonymous Man,  a concert-length work from Bang on a Can composer  Michael Gordon . The text is drawn from Gordon's experiences living in a changing neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, meeting his future wife (the composer Julia Wolfe), raising a family, and especially engaging with two homeless men who lived across the street. The interplay of personalities is beautifully rendered in music, springing from Michael's conversations with the homeless men ---      serious, funny, mysterious, poetic, and mundane.

The Month of Moderns 3: recorded July 8, 2017


Philadelphia - 90.1 FM/HD1/HD2
Reading - 97.7 FM
Allentown - 97.1 FM
Wilmington - 107.7 FM

Or listen online at wrti.org!


From the Jeff Quartets Archive

Make sure to stop by www.crossingchoir.com/jeff-quartets every Thursday afternoon to see the new video, or connect with us on social media to receive each weekly announcement. 

Bo Holten's Madrigal for Jeff

Back in 2008, when preparing our first Month of Moderns, we decided to try a "season-featured composer" as a kind of experiment.    Donald had discovered Bo's work through his residency at the BBC Singers and felt it a composing voice curiously absent from the scene in the U.S.  We presented four of his works and he came to visit us that summer ---     our first visiting artist from Europe! ---      to hear his marvelous 24-voice motet In nomine and the kooky, virtuosic Rain and Rush and Rosebush.  

Among the most charming aspects of Bo Holten's successful Jeff Quartet (beloved by both audience and singers alike), is its manner of delivery.  In a time when we receive  all  our new works typeset in Finale or similar software, Bo wrote his Quartet by hand and then sent us photos of it laid out on his dining room table!  The red-striped table cloth screams Scandinavia.  Take a look.
Aptly titled, a JEFF QUARTET is a bittersweet madrigal that, for us, captures a very personal history, yet, with its roots melding Lutheran Chorales and Elizabethan counterpoint, is a universal outpouring of joy and sorrow.

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Bo Holten - A Jeff Quartet for 4 Voices

Jeff Quartets Omnibus Edition

The composers of the Jeff Quartets have generously allowed for the sale of the quartets in a single, omnibus edition. 

All proceeds will benefit The Jeffrey Dinsmore Memorial Fund @ The Crossing.


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