Conspirare: Fresh Off the Page
Fresh Off the Page: New Music by Craig Hella Johnson
Step into an intimate listening room as 12 Conspirare singers workshop new music and explorations from Craig Hella Johnson right in front of you. Includes movements from This One Body (working title), a new multi-movement work.
Craig shared this about This One Body:
“The title holds two things at once: the one body each of us actually lives in, with all its ache and appetite and grace, and the larger body of all that is, of which we are each an inseparable and divine part. Around it I’m writing solo art songs for each of the twelve singers, as well as new songs in the musical theater tradition toward a possible larger work (a first musical), new choral music for Christmas and other Conspirare programs, and choral arrangements of songs by Eliza Gilkyson.
Underneath all of it is a question I can’t put down: how can the music I make serve the larger good? How can it help people wake to their own lives — how can I be a conduit for something soul-guided, something that brings joy and peace and healing, and draws us into real community with one another?”
Conspirare: Fresh Off the Page
Fresh Off the Page: New Music by Craig Hella Johnson
Step into an intimate listening room as 12 Conspirare singers workshop new music and explorations from Craig Hella Johnson right in front of you. Includes movements from This One Body (working title), a new multi-movement work.
Craig shared this about This One Body:
“The title holds two things at once: the one body each of us actually lives in, with all its ache and appetite and grace, and the larger body of all that is, of which we are each an inseparable and divine part. Around it I’m writing solo art songs for each of the twelve singers, as well as new songs in the musical theater tradition toward a possible larger work (a first musical), new choral music for Christmas and other Conspirare programs, and choral arrangements of songs by Eliza Gilkyson.
Underneath all of it is a question I can’t put down: how can the music I make serve the larger good? How can it help people wake to their own lives — how can I be a conduit for something soul-guided, something that brings joy and peace and healing, and draws us into real community with one another?”
Residency at UMKC - Conservatory
Residency at UMKC - Conservatory
Michael and Randy Hawes visit the Conservatory at the University of Missouri, Kansas City at the invitation of Professor of Trombone Lauren Casey-Clyde, to perform and coach students. Music will include selections by Florence Price, Kino Lee, Tim Higgins, Adore Alexander and Shireen Abu-Khader among others.
Florence Price, Her Song in Chicago
Florence Price, Her Song
Pianist Eugenia Jeong will join Michael in a program featuring songs by Florence Price. Also included on the program will be music by Shireen Abu-Khader, Randy Newman, and Nicole Piunno. Michael will join Eugenia as a Trumpeter, Singer, Armenian Duduk player, and pianist.
This program is presented with support from the Austin Live Music Fund.
Conspirare: Mendelssohn's Elijah
Elijah
An exhilarating performance of one of the great choral masterworks. Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah tells the story of a uniquely brave and passionate truth-teller during a time of great turmoil and unrest. Featuring Conspirare soloists with the Conspirare Symphonic Choir and chamber orchestra.
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
JAMES K. BASS, CONDUCTOR
CHOIR & JAZZ COMBO
Seraphic Fire sizzles in a stylish evening of jazz standards, backed by a small combo of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. With the rich blend of 13 voices, the ensemble explores the close harmonies and uncanny American “cool” that defined classics made famous by Nat King Cole, Etta James, and Cole Porter, alongside many more legendary voices of the Great American Songbook. From At Last and When I Fall in Love to Straighten Up and Fly Right, this program shimmers with warmth, swing, and sophistication, transporting audiences to the intimate jazz clubs of the early twentieth century—an unforgettable celebration of timeless melodies and velvet-smooth sound.
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
JAMES K. BASS, CONDUCTOR
CHOIR & JAZZ COMBO
Seraphic Fire sizzles in a stylish evening of jazz standards, backed by a small combo of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. With the rich blend of 13 voices, the ensemble explores the close harmonies and uncanny American “cool” that defined classics made famous by Nat King Cole, Etta James, and Cole Porter, alongside many more legendary voices of the Great American Songbook. From At Last and When I Fall in Love to Straighten Up and Fly Right, this program shimmers with warmth, swing, and sophistication, transporting audiences to the intimate jazz clubs of the early twentieth century—an unforgettable celebration of timeless melodies and velvet-smooth sound.
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
JAMES K. BASS, CONDUCTOR
CHOIR & JAZZ COMBO
Seraphic Fire sizzles in a stylish evening of jazz standards, backed by a small combo of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. With the rich blend of 13 voices, the ensemble explores the close harmonies and uncanny American “cool” that defined classics made famous by Nat King Cole, Etta James, and Cole Porter, alongside many more legendary voices of the Great American Songbook. From At Last and When I Fall in Love to Straighten Up and Fly Right, this program shimmers with warmth, swing, and sophistication, transporting audiences to the intimate jazz clubs of the early twentieth century—an unforgettable celebration of timeless melodies and velvet-smooth sound.
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
Seraphic Fire: Blue Note
JAMES K. BASS, CONDUCTOR
CHOIR & JAZZ COMBO
Seraphic Fire sizzles in a stylish evening of jazz standards, backed by a small combo of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. With the rich blend of 13 voices, the ensemble explores the close harmonies and uncanny American “cool” that defined classics made famous by Nat King Cole, Etta James, and Cole Porter, alongside many more legendary voices of the Great American Songbook. From At Last and When I Fall in Love to Straighten Up and Fly Right, this program shimmers with warmth, swing, and sophistication, transporting audiences to the intimate jazz clubs of the early twentieth century—an unforgettable celebration of timeless melodies and velvet-smooth sound.
Conspirare Christmas
Conspirare Christmas
Come gather for a musical journey through memory and hope, where voices unite to create something larger than ourselves—a reminder that in the act of singing together, we discover the spirit of the season and the essence of what connects us all. Craig Hella Johnson’s signature program breaks down musical walls, inspiring listeners year after year. This year’s program features Conspirare singers as soloists.
Conspirare Christmas
Conspirare Christmas
Come gather for a musical journey through memory and hope, where voices unite to create something larger than ourselves—a reminder that in the act of singing together, we discover the spirit of the season and the essence of what connects us all. Craig Hella Johnson’s signature program breaks down musical walls, inspiring listeners year after year. This year’s program features Conspirare singers as soloists.
Conspirare Christmas
Conspirare Christmas
Come gather for a musical journey through memory and hope, where voices unite to create something larger than ourselves—a reminder that in the act of singing together, we discover the spirit of the season and the essence of what connects us all. Craig Hella Johnson’s signature program breaks down musical walls, inspiring listeners year after year. This year’s program features Conspirare singers as soloists.
Durufle Requiem, Soloist
Baritone Soloist in Maurice Durufle’s Requiem
with the St. Louis King of France Choir,
Eric Newell, Conductor - Dr. Midori Ataka, organist
Austin Symphony Orchestra, Gershwin
Experience Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as never before—performed live with his original keystrokes via Steinway’s Spirio | r technology—alongside American classics by Gould, Ives, and Copland, brought to life with stunning multimedia visuals.
Austin Symphony Orchestra, Gershwin
Experience Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as never before—performed live with his original keystrokes via Steinway’s Spirio | r technology—alongside American classics by Gould, Ives, and Copland, brought to life with stunning multimedia visuals.
The Crossing, Poor Hymnal @ Big Ears
4 time Grammy Winning Crossing Choir performs David Lang’s Grammy Nominated Poor Hymnal at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, KY.
The Crossing, Poor Hymnal @ Big Ears
4 time Grammy Winning Crossing Choir performs David Lang’s Grammy Nominated Poor Hymnal at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, KY.
The Crossing: A Candid World
A Candid World
David Lang’s poor hymnal
Thursday, March 26 @ 8pm
Peace Center Concert Hall | Greenville, SC
Tickets will be available soon via Peace Center Concert Hall.
Like his Pulitzer-winning work the little match girl passion, David Lang’s poor hymnal tries to get to the core of what a religious experience can be. “What I love about hymnals,” the composer writes in his liner notes to the CD, “is that they’re a catalog of things a community of worshippers can agree on — a catalog that can be sung. And what the worshippers are singing about matters.”
poor hymnal is a concert-length work written for The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally. Lang constructed the text by stitching together lines, phrases and poignant utterances from sources as varied as the Old Testament, Mahatma Gandhi and Tolstoy — to name just a few. As Lang explains: “This piece is trying to say: The reason we are coming together is to remember how important we are to each other, and to remember how important it is that we take care of each other.”
The Crossing: Declare the Causes
Declare the causes
Infinite Body
a reprise of our 2023 concert of commissioned premieres
Tania León’s Singsong
w/ Claire Chase, flutes
w/ Wang Lu’s At Which Point and Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body
Tuesday, March 24 @ 7:30pm
Zankel Hall @ Carnegie Hall, NYC
The return of Claire Chase and the tsunami of energy that comes with her, as we revisit Rita Dove’s hard-edged, raw “cricket poems” in Tania León’s endlessly inventive Singsong, which dances its way through a journey of Black singers from pre-slavery to today. Wang Lu’s At Which Point boldly explores the fragility and emptiness of grief found in poet Forrest Gander’s world of those “left behind.” Finally, Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body, a co-commission of Carnegie Hall and The Crossing, explores how capitalism influences our relationship to our bodies, peering through the lenses of the natural world, burnout culture, and embodiment, to observe and unsettle the notion of our separateness.
Resilience. Endurance. Unexpected Joy.
The Crossing: Declare the Causes
Declare the causes
Infinite Body
a reprise of our 2023 concert of commissioned premieres
Tania León’s Singsong
w/ Claire Chase, flutes
w/ Wang Lu’s At Which Point and Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body
Sunday, March 22 @ 4pm
St. Luke and the Epiphany, Philadelphia
Tickets will be available soon via Artcinia.
The return of Claire Chase and the tsunami of energy that comes with her, as we revisit Rita Dove’s hard-edged, raw “cricket poems” in Tania León’s endlessly inventive Singsong, which dances its way through a journey of Black singers from pre-slavery to today. Wang Lu’s At Which Point boldly explores the fragility and emptiness of grief found in poet Forrest Gander’s world of those “left behind.” Finally, Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body, a co-commission of Carnegie Hall and The Crossing, explores how capitalism influences our relationship to our bodies, peering through the lenses of the natural world, burnout culture, and embodiment, to observe and unsettle the notion of our separateness.
Resilience. Endurance. Unexpected Joy.
The Crossing: Declare the Causes
Declare the causes
Infinite Body
a reprise of our 2023 concert of commissioned premieres
Tania León’s Singsong
w/ Claire Chase, flutes
w/ Wang Lu’s At Which Point and Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body
Saturday, March 21 @ 5pm
Derry Presbyterian Church | Hershey, PA
Tickets will be available soon via Derry Presbyterian Church.
The return of Claire Chase and the tsunami of energy that comes with her, as we revisit Rita Dove’s hard-edged, raw “cricket poems” in Tania León’s endlessly inventive Singsong, which dances its way through a journey of Black singers from pre-slavery to today. Wang Lu’s At Which Point boldly explores the fragility and emptiness of grief found in poet Forrest Gander’s world of those “left behind.” Finally, Ayanna Woods’ Infinite Body, a co-commission of Carnegie Hall and The Crossing, explores how capitalism influences our relationship to our bodies, peering through the lenses of the natural world, burnout culture, and embodiment, to observe and unsettle the notion of our separateness.
Resilience. Endurance. Unexpected Joy.
San Antonio Phiharmonic: Tchaikovsky 2 - Baton of Heritage
Classics VII: Tchaikovsky 2 - Baton of Heritage
Cosette Justo Valdés, conductor | Inna Faliks, piano
Gershwin: Cuban Overture | Assad: Lilith for piano & orchestra | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
MARCH 6 & 7, 2026
San Antonio Phiharmonic: Tchaikovsky 2 - Baton of Heritage
Classics VII: Tchaikovsky 2 - Baton of Heritage
Cosette Justo Valdés, conductor | Inna Faliks, piano
Gershwin: Cuban Overture | Assad: Lilith for piano & orchestra | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
MARCH 6 & 7, 2026
The Crossing @ Stanford
The Crossing @ Stanford University
Harold Meltzer’s You Are Who I Love (2024, reprise)
w/ Sandbox Percussion
w/ works of Ēriks Ešenvalds and Sarah Rimkus
Wednesday, February 25 @ 7:30pm
Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Harold Meltzer’s collaboration with poet (and Stanford faculty) Aracelis Girmay, You Are Who I Love, produced one of his largest and most thoughtful works. With the four percussionists of Sandbox playing over 100 instruments, the work floats with ease from humor to defiance, intimacy to insistence. Harold, who died in August 2024, left us a lasting gift to remind us of the value of hearing the unheard, seeing the unseen, and living a day, an hour, or just a moment in the life of another.
Books. Rice. Tomatoes. Crossing the Desert.
The performance of You Are Who I Love was made possible through generous gifts from a wide circle of friends to the Harold Meltzer Memorial Recording Fund.
You Are Who I Love was commissioned for The Crossing and Donald Nally by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
San Antonio Philharmonic: Symphonic Strings
Classics VI: Symphonic Strings
Vadim Gluzman, director & violin | Masumi Rostad, viola
Mendelssohn: Overture in C | Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings | Daugherty: Diamond in the Rough | Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for violin & viola, K. 364
FEBRUARY 13 & 14, 2026
San Antonio Philharmonic: Symphonic Strings
Classics VI: Symphonic Strings
Vadim Gluzman, director & violin | Masumi Rostad, viola
Mendelssohn: Overture in C | Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings | Daugherty: Diamond in the Rough | Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for violin & viola, K. 364
FEBRUARY 13 & 14, 2026
The Crossing @ Boston Symphony
At the invitation of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, we travel from one birthplace of American Democracy to another to sing a new, abridged version of David Lang’s poor hymnal, a work that has quickly become our most performed commission. Its resonance, its relevance, seem to increase daily. We sing it in the hope that, someday, it won’t be necessary.
Come. Rest. Other. Observe. Here We Are.
poor hymnal opens these BSO concerts, followed by the East Coast premiere of Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass, a celebratory homage to Black joy, spiritual discovery, and the power of faith.
poor hymnal was commissioned for The Crossing and Donald Nally by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Jill and Loren Bough, and Peggy and Mark Curchack.
The Crossing will sing the original version of poor hymnal at Peace Center Concert Hall in Greenville, SC on Thursday March 26 at 8 pm.
The Crossing @ Boston Symphony
At the invitation of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, we travel from one birthplace of American Democracy to another to sing a new, abridged version of David Lang’s poor hymnal, a work that has quickly become our most performed commission. Its resonance, its relevance, seem to increase daily. We sing it in the hope that, someday, it won’t be necessary.
Come. Rest. Other. Observe. Here We Are.
poor hymnal opens these BSO concerts, followed by the East Coast premiere of Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass, a celebratory homage to Black joy, spiritual discovery, and the power of faith.
poor hymnal was commissioned for The Crossing and Donald Nally by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Jill and Loren Bough, and Peggy and Mark Curchack.
The Crossing will sing the original version of poor hymnal at Peace Center Concert Hall in Greenville, SC on Thursday March 26 at 8 pm.
San Antonio Philharmonic: Shostakovich
Classics V: Shostakovich 11 - The Year 1905
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor | Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
Balch: Musica Pyralis | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K 488 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905”
JANUARY 16 & 17, 2026
San Antonio Philharmonic: Shostakovich
Classics V: Shostakovich 11 - The Year 1905
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor | Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
Balch: Musica Pyralis | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K 488 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905”
JANUARY 16 & 17, 2026