The Crossing @ ACDA
Jennifer Higdon, Edie Hill, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Ayanna Woods
Friday, February 24 @ 8pm
Saturday, February 25 @ 8pm
Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati
I want a monument we imagine and reimagine and reimagine—
A monument we grasp and heave and pull in a long arc
bursting through the cracks in the story you tell, America.– Ayanna Woods, in SHIFT
A world premiere from Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon lies at the center of this concert for the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association, a gathering of thousands of the country’s conductors for whom we will sing some of our favorite, most self-examining works of social relevance. Ayanna Wood’s defiant and uplifting SHIFT reimagines our national monuments, Edie Hill’s Spectral Spirits remembers extinct birds, Shara Nova’s Resolve invites us to embrace our discomfort and live humbly under the sun, while Caroline Shaw’s new work will still be in our ears from C@C 2022, here reprised for an even more expansive audience. Our Cincinnati debut!
Jennifer Higdon’s new work is the 2022 Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission from the American Choral Directors Association.
Photo: tree farm