Big Sky: The Crossing @ Story Mill

with Bozeman’s chamber choir Roots In The Sky
presented by Warren Miller Performing Arts Center & Tinworks Art

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

6:00pm Doors open for a preview of Tinworks Art 2021
7:00pm Performance begins
8:00pm Reception and bonfire

Story Mill
799 Hillside Ln, Bozeman, MT 59715

$15 basic ticket/$40 support-the-arts ticket

Program:

Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971/2021)
Ayanna Woods – SHIFT (2020/2021)
David Lang – In Nature (2020)

The Crossing returns to Story Mill, this time with Echoes Amplification Kits, for the first concert in our 2021 summer residency with Big Sky’s Warren Miller Performing Arts Center.

A world premiere, Gavin Bryars has created a vocal arrangement of his 1971 looped composition “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.”  Bryars is one of Britain’s most influential living composers. His early work was notable for its use of indeterminacy, found audio, and minimal arrangements while his more recent catalogue fuses these motifs with the richness of choral and orchestral music.

Ayanna Woods’ words and music struck us with their power last November and stayed with us in such a way that we were inspired to ask her to expand her brief work Shift into a multi-movement suite, premiered last June in Philadelphia. Based in her own words – “I want...a monument we grasp and heave and bend in a long arc/bursting through the cracks in the story you tell, America” – there is energy and rhythm and a drive upward toward...is it hope, or demand?

David Lang’s “in nature” was commissioned by The Crossing and WMPAC last October and was specifically designed as a hybrid of live and pre-filmed music observing the limitations presented by COVID-19. Originally conceived as a distanced collaboration, “in nature” receives its first live performance at Story Mill.

Warren Miller Performing – www.warrenmillerpac.org
Tinworks Arts – www.tinworksart.org