Crickets in Our Backyard

works of Tania León, Wang Lu, Ayanna Woods (our 2022-2023 Resident Composer)

words of Rita Dove, Forrest Gander, Ayanna Woods

with (the extraordinary) Claire Chase, flute

Saturday, September 16 @ 7pm

Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

pre-concert talk at 5:45p with Donald, Tania, and Ayanna

grief survival, crickets as metaphor, unsettlement;
pondering our separateness –
in cloaks of mesmerizing, inventive music

The Crossing kicks off the 2023-2024 Season: Sin Eating with Crickets in our Backyard, featuring the world premiere of a new work from Tania León, based on poetry of U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, written for The Crossing and renowned, mind-bendingly virtuosic flutist and MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase. 

Wang Lu’s At Which Point, a 2021 commission on poetry of Pulitzer-winner Forrest Gander, will be reprised, alongside a new work – Infinite Body – from The Crossing’s 2022-2023 Resident Composer, Ayanna Woods.