Gifts for a New Year,
Looking Ahead
The Crossing has many friends. And many of those friends give to us at incredibly generous levels that, proportional to their means, reflect a combined determination to say something meaningful through group singing. Those gifts sustain us. They make us joyful and humble!

Sometimes, extraordinary gifts provoke us to shout out our excitement: what that single gesture will allow us to do, how it will allow us to dream. Our recent Pew grant to support Ted Hearne's "Farming" sparked one of those moments. Last summer's BLM-motivated gift from Tom Kasdorf is another. 

Today, we announce two such inspiring gifts.
Thomas Kasdorf's $100,000 gift
a final, beautiful, posthumous gesture from our friend

Before Tom left us on October 30, he and Team Tom, his amazing Kalamazoo group of thinkers and philanthropic advisors (including the Kalamazoo Community Foundation), ensured that our challenging pandemic 2020-2021 season would move forward smoothly. This extraordinary gift follows on his support of Echoes and many other truly sustaining gifts of the past several years. A "choral star" himself, his commitment to new directions in our art supported many, many recent new works. 
An Anonymous Donor's $450,000 gift
supporting recordings over three seasons, 2021-2024

The anonymous donor who has, for the last three seasons, funded our (rather expensive) series of recordings has renewed their commitment, promising $150,000 for three more seasons, beginning in 2021-2022. These gifts allow us to think big about recordings, ensuring that our commissions are heard around the world, and, let's face it, they've helped bring Grammys home to Philadelphia (six nominations, two wins!), which certainly helps get the word out!
Tom and Anonymous and The Artists of The Crossing

In a previously unannounced gift last March, Tom and our Anonymous friend, who never met each other but shared a love of The Crossing, came together in the face of the avalanche of cancellations in our singers' lives, contributing $50,000 each to ensure that our singers would be paid what they had planned on for the 2019-2020 season and have new work over the summer. The gifts forced us into a kind of creative thinking that simply wouldn't have happened without their support; our art is changed as a result.

Thank you, Anonymous. 
Thank you, Tom. We miss you. 
We wish you could see that Inauguration Day came...
...and we are grateful. 
Photos by Becky Oehlers Photography and Kevin Vondrak
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