Big Sky: The Crossing @ Moose Creek
with Bozeman’s chamber choir Roots In The Sky
a concert with Echoes, at a high alpine meadow above Gallatin Canyon
presented by Warren Miller Performing Arts Center
Saturday, July 31, 2021 @ 7pm
Moose Creek Rd above Gallatin Canyon
Cache Creek Outfitters, Big Sky, MT
$50 per vehicle
Program:
Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971/2021)
Ayanna Woods – SHIFT (2020/2021)
David Lang – In Nature (2020)
with Echoes Amplification Kits
The final event of The Crossing’s 2021 residency features a concert of three new pieces up in a high alpine meadow on top of the Gallatin Canyon at Cache Creek Outfitters, a 15 minute drive up the Moose Creek forest service road off of Highway 191 between Big Sky and Gallatin Gateway. Event goers will park at Cache Creek Outfitters, and then walk for 10-15 minutes along an old logging road to the mountain meadow concert.
A world premiere, Gavin Bryars has created a vocal arrangement of his 1971 looped composition “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.” Bryars is one of Britain’s most influential living composers. His early work was notable for its use of indeterminacy, found audio, and minimal arrangements while his more recent catalogue fuses these motifs with the richness of choral and orchestral music.
Ayanna Woods’ words and music struck us with their power last November and stayed with us in such a way that we were inspired to ask her to expand her brief work Shift into a multi-movement suite, premiered last June in Philadelphia. Based in her own words – “I want...a monument we grasp and heave and bend in a long arc/bursting through the cracks in the story you tell, America” – there is energy and rhythm and a drive upward toward...is it hope, or demand?
David Lang’s “in nature” was commissioned by The Crossing and WMPAC last October and was specifically designed as a hybrid of live and pre-filmed music observing the limitations presented by COVID-19. Originally conceived as a distanced collaboration, “in nature” receives its first live performance at Story Mill.
Warren Miller Performing – www.warrenmillerpac.org
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