About this Event
PROGRAM
The Crossing @ Christmas
The Jeffrey Dinsmore Memorial Concerts
Donald Nally, conductor
David Lang the little match girl passion
Gavin Bryars (world premiere on poems of Fernando Pessoa)
Jacob Mühlrad Anim Zemirot
DATE & TIME
December 19, 2026
5:00 p.m.
LOCATION
Saint Peter's Church
619 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 935-2200
https://www.saintpeters.org/visitchurch
TICKETING
Tickets are $40 for general admission, with a pay-as-you-can option.
I have no philosophy, I have senses.
A first encounter with Jacob,
My soul longs for you.
Our friendship with Gavin bears more fruit.
The match goes out.
What did you do that was so wrong?
I’ve never kept sheep,
But it’s as if I did.
The world wasn’t made for us to think about it
(To think is to have eyes that aren’t well)
But to look at it and to be in agreement.
Gavin Bryars’ new work is a gift from the composer to The Crossing.
THE CHOIR
Musical America’s 2024 Ensemble of the Year, The Crossing is a four-time Grammy winning chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to creating and recording new music that expand ways of writing, singing, and listening to choral music. The ensemble was the American Composers Forums’ 2017 Champion of New Music, and their commission Sound from The Bench by Ted Hearne was named a 2018 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. They were the recipient of the 2015 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and have received three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, as well as the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award with composer Joel Puckett from Chorus America. Having presented nearly 180 commissioned world premieres, the choir's recent projects include Julia Wolfe’s historical oratorio Fire in My Mouth with the New York Philharmonic, Tyondai Braxton’s manga-based choral symphony Telekinesis, and Robert Maggio’s theatrical work Aniara with The Netherlands’ Klockriketeatern.
Event venue & nearby stays
Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York, United States
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