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Month of Moderns III The final work of featured composer Bo Holten is his Rain and Rush and Rosebush, a beautiful discourse on listening. American composer Jackson Hill’s fascinating Voices of Autumn (1989), sets Japanese poetry in an exotic language of memory and subtext. Among our audience’s favorite composers is Estonian Arvo Pärt, whose setting of I am the true vine (1999) is an extended meditation in simplicity and silence. Two shorter works will feature modern texts: British composer Philip Moore’s I saw him standing (2004), setting Archbishop Rowan Williams’ words, and American Paul Fowler’s Potter’s Clay (2007), a work for women’s voices based on a poem of Naomi Rose. English composer John McCabe’s Scenes in America Deserta (1986) requires the singers to demonstrate their virtuosic ensemble skills in creating a variety of moods depicting deserts around the world: a thoroughly modern work employing thoroughly traditional choral colors. Finally, The Celan Project reaches its conclusion with a new work of Kile Smith, whose Epiphany Vespers we sang to great acclaim this past January in collaboration with Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. Smith’s music is rooted in tradition and yet expands that tradition to investigate just what is possible when twenty gifted singers get together. Having established a working love affair with The Crossing, we look forward to see what Smith will write for us this season.
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