Join us on Sunday, November 23rd at 3 pm for a concert broadcast by The Crossing chamber choir, led by Music Director Donald Nally, and recorded in October at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square.
The program opens with the world premiere of a new work by composer Kile Smith. The Consolation of Apollo pairs two unlikely texts: the transcript of the historic Christmas Eve 1968 broadcast of Apollo 8 astronauts reading Genesis as they photograph the Earth rising over the surface of the Moon, and Boethius’ sixth-century musings on man, myth, and our place in the universe.
Smith considers in music what we are and what we can be—how the earthbound free their imagination in flight. As a special treat, you'll also hear an archival recording of Smith's The Waking Sun, performed by The Crossing and Tempesta di Mare in 2011.
David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, has become a signature work of The Crossing – immediate, stark, beautiful, it contemplates the value of recognizing the suffering of others.
Read the complete text and program notes for each piece here.