"...unerring performers, the superb Philadelphia choir The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally"
-The New Yorker
So they sang, in sweet utterance, and the heart
Within me desired to listen, and I signaled my
Companions to set me free, nodding with my brows,
But they leaned on and rowed hard...
--Odyssey, Book 12: The Cattle of the Sun
The Month of Moderns 2018
our ninth annual festival of new music
at
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
8855 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Join us on the lawn after each concert for an informal reception welcoming the composers - let's talk about what we're hearing!
Month of Moderns 1:
a house
Saturday, June 9 at 8pm
Rooted in the need to speak about our political environment, we usher in our Month of Moderns festival with a concert of thought-provoking, timely music for strings, percussion, piano and choir.
Pre-concert talk with Donald, Ellis, and Alex at 7pm
David Lang statement to the court
David Lang a house
David Lang just (after song of songs)
Alex Berko Lincoln
Pēteris Vasks The fruit of silence
Ellis Ludwig-Leone Who What When Where Why (
world premiere)
A concert-length unaccompanied work from Kile Smith, setting journal entries and poems of the enigmatic Robert Lax in search of his own spirituality and art.
