One year after "the cancellation of everything" …

The Month of Moderns 2021, The Crossing re-imagined, reflecting, rejuvenated. A complete MoM, with three different programs of new works born of our pandemic-time lives. Works of isolation, of social unrest and justice, of a divided nation, and of optimism and compassion: honoring the life of Breonna Taylor; setting poetry of grief from 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander; expanding on our pre-election series of 2020; and reprising our home-generated bucolic elegy, The Forest. Walks in the woods, in a cemetery, and a picnic on the lawn of an arboretum: venues through which we celebrate the rich and yet complex history of Philadelphia, our home.

All concerts in The Month of Moderns 2021 are performed with singers and audience spatially distanced, using our Echoes Amplification Kits, which allow an intimate aural experience, while observing pandemic-time protocols.

"The choir led by Donald Nally takes its popular festival outdoors this year with three programs in June. The singers return to Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope June 3-6 for The Forest by Nally and Kevin Vondrak. The Woodlands in West Philadelphia is the setting for the premiere with Ars Nova Workshop of Matana Roberts’ we got time June 11-13. And, on June 18 and 19 at Awbury Arboretum in Germantown, the choir premieres Wang Lu’s At which point."