in nature

Warren Miller Performing Arts Center presents
The Crossing
w/ Roots in the Sky

David Lang’s in nature

a hybrid performance of live and recorded music,
written for the occasion in the time of the pandemic
produced by John Zirkle and Donald Nally

Saturday, August 1, 2020 @ 8pm EDT / 6p MDT

Live at Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (WMPAC), Big Sky, MT
Online at www.wmpac.live

Program:

in nature (world premiere) – David Lang
in nature is dedicated to the memory of Virginia Hitt

Our sixth summer residency in the mountains of Montana, with an innovative approach to ensemble singing in the time of COVID-19. David Lang’s in nature was commissioned by The Crossing and WMPAC as a new work specifically designed for a time when we must sing at a distance from one another. That time is here, and that distance is 2100 miles - from Philadelphia to Big Sky. This world premiere of in nature is a hybrid of live and pre-filmed music, all performed safely within recommended guidelines for singing. Singers of The Crossing were filmed and recorded one-at-a-time at the Icebox Project Space at CraneArts in Philadelphia; that film will be combined in real time with the live performances of four socially-distanced singers of Bozeman-based Roots in the Sky, singing from WMPAC in Big Sky, Montana.

Later in August, The Crossing will release a film version of in nature.