Featuring five commissioned works that garnered great critical acclaim when premiered, and featuring the poetry of two of the twentieth century's most important poets - Paul Celan and Philip Levine - It is Time is a must-have recording. Some of the most creative compositional voices of our time - Kile Smith, Paul Fowler, David Shapiro, Kirsten Broberg, Frank Havroy, and Erhard Karkoschka - take you on an artistic journey that calls on the virstuosity of The Crossing; impeccably sung and beautifully expressed, this is a record of "what's happening now" in choral music.
The Crossing
Karen Blanchard • Steve Bradshaw • Maren Montalbano • Jeff Chapman • Veronica Chapman-Smith • Colin Dill • Micah Dingler • Ryan Fleming • Steven Gearhart • Amanda Heisler • Chris Hodges • Erin Jeanette • Leslie Johnson • Heidi Kurtz • Wesley Lawre •nce Frank Mitchell • Daniel O'Dea • Rob Phillips • Rebecca Siler • Jenifer Smith • Dan Spratlan • Karen Wapner
Donald Nally, conductor
John Grecia, keyboards
Recording and post production by Paul Vazquez, assisted by Dante Portella.