The Crossing Releases New Film, YOU CAN PLAN ON ME, Focusing On The Experience Of Aloneness
You can Plan on Me focuses on the experience of aloneness, of not being able to do the thing we love and rely on.by BWW News Desk
Today, GRAMMY-winning new music choir The Crossing released a new film, You can Plan on Me, a reflective new composition based on works from their long history of commissioned world premieres. The project is conceived by conductor Donald Nally, who also composed the film score, largely based on Aaron Helgeson s A way far home, which was written for and premiered by The Crossing in December 2017. The film is by Luke Carpenter and Emma Oehlers, with The Crossing s in-house sound producer Paul Vazquez and assistance to the score and sound by Kevin Vondrak. The work is dedicated to the artists of The Crossing in isolation.
The local recordings that helped us through 2020
By David Weininger Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
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Memorable releases came from Thomas Adès, Charles Wuorinen, Transient Canvas, Planetary Candidate, Osvaldo Golijov, and David Lang.
Our concert halls went silent in 2020, so it became the year we all had to look elsewhere for musical fulfilment. That meant an almost wholesale migration of live performance to livestreaming, the closest most of us have gotten to live music in 2020. I saw and heard my share, and some will linger long in memory â the Bang on a Can Marathons, Igor Levitâs series of Hauskonzert solo recitals, Metropolitan Opera productions. In the end, though, hunkering down with a laptop and headphones, or trying to fend off distraction in a busy household, only served to remind me how mediated, how
The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings.
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Dec. 17, 2020
“In Seven Days”; Kirill Gerstein, piano (Myrios)
The composer Thomas Adès and the pianist Kirill Gerstein’s artistically fruitful friendship has given us two essential albums this year: the premiere recording of Mr. Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring Mr. Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon); and this one, which includes a solo arrangement of the harrowing and slippery Berceuse from Mr. Adès’s opera “The Exterminating Angel.”