Summer @ The Crossing – Looking back (Farming!) and looking ahead

Summer @ The Crossing

Farming Wrap-Up

and Looking Ahead

Farming Happened!

Yow – Ted Hearne's new piece dominated our world for six weeks, a worthy, exhilarating way to move into Deep Summer. Rain followed us everywhere, like so much corporate marketing, but we are resilient and the show went on at Kings Oaks Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; The Big Sing Festival in Haarlem, The Netherlands; and Caramoor Center for Music and Art in Katonah, NY. In every venue, the production staff proved to be our best friends, instrumental in bringing this epic choral-theatre work's message to life (special thanks to these "backstage" heroes in our world).

Bezos, Penn, UberEats, H2A Visa workers, colonization, justification...

stories about the world we live in, told by an incredible band and the ever-imaginative artists of The Crossing.

NPR noticed, and so did The New York Times.

But that's not all we've been doing. We made our Muziekgebouw debut in Amsterdam with Shara Nova's Titration and Vanessa Lann's Shining Still (the latter was with us to finally hear the piece live after she wrote it for our 2021 project Carols After a Plague), and we workshopped David T. Little's SIN-EATER, which we'll co-produce with Muziekgebouw, November Music (in Den Bosch), and Penn Live Arts in October/November. Huge thanks to Neil Wallace our producer/presenter/friend/champion and cheerleader!

We're exhausted. In a good way. Like after a twelve-hour hike up and down a mountain. Feeling accomplished. Feeling like we know stuff we didn't before the journey. Feeling like we'll sleep well.

So, we're taking a Summer Break!

Well, in a couple of days. First, we're workshopping Gabriela Ortiz's Can we Know the Sound of Forgiveness this week (it premieres in January at Rice University!), with producer/director Steve Jimenez and his Creative Team visiting and experimenting.

Then, we're closing up shop for a few weeks.

But, when we're back, we're really back at it. Look for us with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center August 12. Then, with Robert Maggio's ANIARA: fragments of time and space at The Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm August 30 and at the Rock Church in Helsinki September 1.

And then... the launch of our 2023-2024 Season: Sin Eating.

More info September 1.

Thanks for following us, for showing up,

listening, watching, for making this journey so fun!