MoM2: Prairie in OUr Backyard (Inside Edition)

The Month of Moderns 2024
Works of Ayanna Woods, Kile Smith, Santa Ratniece, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., and Gabriel Jackson

Thursday, June 27 @ 7pm

Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

We move from the recording studio to the stage, recording Gabriel Jackson's five works for The Crossing one week, and putting them at the center of MoM 2 the next. Titles like Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando and Rigwreck form a platform for our deep dive into the Now, moving from the gulf where oil is spilled, to the prairie that laments the farewells of plants and people, to the mountains where life and relationships are pondered, to the city full of guns, and finally to Jerusalem, home to beauty and to sorrow. Six composers offer personal world views from their widely varying backgrounds spanning Riga to Chicago to London to Brooklyn to our home, Philadelphia. The 2024-2025 Season: Sin-eating closes with a bricolage of brilliant works looking back at its opening and asking a collective question: in the 9 months that have passed, how have our relationships to violence, celebration, loss, and the Earth evolved?

Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: the people get tired of dying 
Jackson: Self-Portrait: Charleston, Orlando 
Smith: Jerusalem 
Jackson: Rigwreck 
Woods: Prairie Smoke  
Jackson: Darest thou, O Soul 
Smith: Conversation on the Mountains 
Esenvalds: Ancient Prairie
Ratniece: horo horo hata hata 

Wheelchair-accessible entrance is located adjacent to parking lot behind building. A limited amount of wheelchair seating is available; please email info@crossingchoir.org 24 hours prior to concert to make arrangements.