December @ The Crossing

James Primosch's Carthage
...another Grammy Nomination
Five….

Fingers
Toes
Pillars
Prophets
Points

and now, Years... 
of consecutive Grammy Nominations.

On Tuesday November 24 we received a number of congratulatory messages from friends: “Ho, hum, another Grammy nod,” read many of them…

Not so! We are so excited at this milestone: our fifth consecutive year of Grammy nominations. This year, we thank Jim Primosch for the amazing music we sing on our album Carthage, nominated for the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.

The album has three works written for The Crossing: the title work, Carthage (based on a text of Marilynne Robinson), Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus (with poems of Denise Levertov), and Journey (a translation of a 13th-century text of Meister Eckhart). The music is so rich, so fun to sing, so rewarding. We thank Jim for investing in us, we thank the Recording Academy, and we thank all the members of our huge and growing community that support our goals and projects. It’s nice to be recognized. It’s even nicer to look at how we got there. That long list is below.

Celebrating with a Holiday Sale

To celebrate our sixth Grammy nomination (we got two last year and won none…but that’s OK, we went into it with the Awards of 2018 and 2019!), and to immerse in perhaps the most unusual holiday season we remember, we are having a Record Sale.

Actually, a Merchandise Sale –
everything at
HALF PRICE (!!)
using the code CARTHAGE at checkout
50% OFF
all Crossing merchandise, including our six Grammy-nominated albums (and the other 16 that we love as well!) That includes the famous Knot Socks – a dazzling combination of Form and Function.
Rethinking our Rethinking for the Holiday

Composer Matana Roberts has written a wonderful new piece that celebrates the life of Breonna Taylor. It was to be our outdoor, socially-distanced C@C Concert, December 17-20. Alas, recent guidelines from the City of Philadelphia prohibit such a gathering and so we look forward to presenting this new piece, with Echoes Amplification Kits, as part of The Month of Moderns 2021 in June. More on that later.

In the meantime, we have a homegrown film in development, born at home, recorded at home, assembled at home. 

The Crossing @ Christmas, 2020 Home Edition
as a part of

Stay tuned.
The Team that made Carthage
Our 2021 Grammy Nomination for Best Choral Performance 


This recording is supported by a generous gift of the New York Community Trust, with the kind help of Fr. John Kamas, S. S. S.

All of The Crossing’s recordings are made possible through a generous gift from an Anonymous donor. 

James Primosch
Meister Eckhart (translated by Jon Sweeney and Mark Burrows)
Marilynne Robinson
Denise Levertov
e.e. cummings
Thomas Merton
Wendell Berry

The Crossing
Katy Avery 
Nathaniel Barnett 
Jessica Beebe 
Kelly Ann Bixby 
Karen Blanchard
Steven Bradshaw 
Colin Dill 
Micah Dingler
Robert Eisentrout 
 Ryan Fleming 
Joanna Gates
Dimitri German
 Steven Hyder 
Michael Jones
Anika Kildegaard 
Heidi Kurtz
Chelsea Lyons
Maren Montalbano 
Rebecca Myers
Becky Oehlers
Daniel Schwartz 
Rebecca Siler 
Daniel Spratlan
Elisa Sutherland 
Daniel Taylor 

Album Art by Steven Bradshaw

Donald Nally, Conductor
Kevin Vondrak, Assistant Conductor & Artistic Associate
John Grecia, Keyboards
Hunter Gregory, Conner Newkam-Ulrich & Jeremy Edelstein, Production Assistants

Recorded July 9-13, 2019 at The High Point at St. Peter’s in the Great Valley,
Malvern, PA
Recording Produced by Donald Nally & Paul Vazquez
Recording Engineered by Paul Vazquez & Dante Portella
Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Paul Vazquez
Associate Producer, Kevin Vondrak
Artistic Assistant, Jeremy Edelstein

The Crossing
Jonathan Bradley, Executive Director
Shannon McMahon, Operations Manager
Paul Vazquez, Recording Engineer, Producer, Sound Designer
Katie Feeney, Grants Manager
Elizabeth Dugan, Bookkeeper

The Board of The Crossing

Kelly Ann Bixby
Phil Cooke
Micah Dingler
Shawn Felton
Tuomi Forrest - Vice President
Mary D. Hangley
Lisa Husseini
Cynthia A. Jarvis
Mary Kinder Loiselle
Michael M. Meloy
Donald Nally
Eric Owens
Pam Prior - Treasurer
Andrew Quint
James Reese
Kim Shiley - President
Carol Loeb Shloss - Secretary
John Slattery
Elizabeth Van de Water

Navona Records
Executive Producer, Bob Lord
Executive A&R, Sam Renshaw
A&R Director, Brandon MacNeil
VP, Audio Production, Jeff LeRoy
Audio Director, Lucas Paquette
VP, Design & Marketing, Brett Picknell
Art Director, Ryan Harrison
Publicity, Patrick Niland and Sara Warner
www.navonarecords.com

Come. Celebrate. Now.

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