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Month of Moderns II: works for choir and organ

Presented by The Crossing at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill

July 9, 2010

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The Levine Project’s second premiere is by Florida composer Lansing McLoskey, an eclectic personality with a deep interest in Medieval and Renaissance music (as well as his own skate board company). McLoskey studied with Bo Holten, and his texture-oriented language gives the illusion there is something to be found just under the surface of the music. This new work, for organ and choir, will be complemented by the soaring, longing, Howells-inspired lines of British composer Francis Pott’s Love Unknown; a rather taut, restrained and introspective motet of Crossing favorite James MacMillan (on a prayer of Padre Pio); and Tarik O’Regan’s calm, knowing I saw him standing (on Archbishop Rowan Williams’ poem). Gabriel Jackson’s Now I have known, O Lord, on a prayer of awe and wonder by 10th-c. poet Al-Junaied employs an exotic scale and evolving textures to envelope the listener. The Levine Project was funded in part by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.